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Jorre Both celebrates the Internet as a never ending source of imagery today.
Craig Atkinson talks to Alice Compton about the titles published by Café Royal Books, the weekly photobook publisher.
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Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Pearl From an edition of 100 numbered and signed on the reverse Image size: 14 x 11 inches Paper size: 16 x 13 inches Unframed £150 + p&p (Photoworks Members £120 + p&p) Every purchase from our shop directly supports our programme. By purchasing a Photoworks print, you are …
Join us this September for Summit Photo, a new three-day summit bringing together world-leading photographers, researchers and policy makers to investigate how photography and photojournalism can address the environmental and humanitarian challenges of our time. Organised in partnership by The Royal Geographical Society, Photoworks and The Royal Photographic Society, with official sponsor Rolex. Summit Photo …
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Hujiang is a remote island close to the border of China; from the beginning of the 20th century many people illegally sailed from Hujiang along the Pacific, looking for opportunities elsewhere and, after 1980, to escape the one-child policy. Many of these migrants were forced to leave behind babies and young children, cared for by …
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Specific events mark generations and eras. If you’re an adult American today, you can recall where you were and what you were doing when the jets hit the World Trade Center because it changed your world forever.
Critical Pulse invites you to reflect on your position and needs in the current art landscape. Explore your existence in our immediate creative ecosystem by generating text and image-based responses to the selected questions by University of Sussex alumni as part of the Sussex Festival of Ideas. What are the possibilities for the art sector? …
Each morning that I walk into work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I am made strongly aware of the frame of reference surrounding the photographs that it is my job to care for and to make accessible on a physical and intellectual level.
Photographer, Sian Davey, author of ‘Looking for Alice’, took over our Instagram account during March, 2016.
Recent 2016 University of Brighton MA Photography graduate Martin Seeds looks at the role of the Northern Ireland Assembly using the natural landscape as metaphor for the fragile political landscape.
Leading on from our Open Forum events during Brighton Photo Biennial 2018, we asked artist Nana Varveropoulou back to kick off our Instagram photochats. As part of our issue #1 Europe, photochats are conversations through images. Featuring Nana Varveropoulou and System of Systems (Danae Io, Rebecca Glyn-Blanco and Maria McLintock).
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When was the last time you were asked to carry something or someone? When was the last time you felt you had to carry something or someone? Before you explore this task, please read Pixy Liao texts here. In pairs, look at It’s Never Been Easy To Carry You by Pixy Liao and answer the …
A resource exploring representation, gender roles and stereotypes through the work of Pixy Liao.
Critical Pulse – UnderExposed 9 November – 8 December 2021 Critical Pulse is a commissioned work by the collective UnderExposed. It is the outcome of a six-month project initiated by the Sussex Festival of Ideas and Photoworks. In June 2021, a panel of curators, directors and arts consultants came together to discuss what lay ahead …
In the opinion of most observers, the process of political transition in Spain was a model of its kind.
Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns met for the first time one winter night in 1954 on the corner of Madison Avenue and Fifty-Seventh Street.
Recent ING Unseen Talent Award winner, Andrea Grützner features on our Ideas on Talent series. We discuss how she came to photography, her approach to spaces and the difference between public and private.
Ian Flanders’ series ‘By The River’ was selected from our call for entries for our upcoming Annual on ‘Women’.
In this commissioned article for Photoworks Annual, Diane Smyth provides context for the three selected folios and presents the very different, but equally critical, takes on the marketing fantasy of fashion photography.
What responsibility does a photographer have towards the people they show? And are images fundamentally objectifying? Rene Matić is a London-based artist and writer whose practice spans photography, film, and sculpture, converging in a meeting place they describe as ‘rude(ness)’, or an evidencing and honouring of the in-between. Photoworks assistant curator Danit Ariel met with …
A resource inviting students to engage critically with the technologies behind digital image making. Introduction Images surround our daily lives, but what’s involved in getting these images in front of our eyes, the technology that brings photography to our screens? Do you always need a camera, a human even, to create an image? What are …
Carolina Semprucci, 06 December 2024 General outrage regarding Meta’s small print enabling AI training from public posts on Instagram and Facebook has recently reignited debate about the lack of transparency surrounding data collection. Although Meta confirmed that re-sharing the viral post objecting to the training was never a valid opt-out method, the ease with which …
Queer History Now is an LGBTQ+ youth group dedicated to responding to queer histories through heritage and creative skills. The collective has brought together young people with different interests and backgrounds who have developed a shared ethos for encountering, producing and challenging queer history. The group built a visual language using a broad range of …
Written by Fiona Rogers Throughout her career, Catalonian photographer Laia Abril has been visualising the unimaginable and creating one of the most important records of our time; a photographic history of misogyny and its ongoing impact on the lives of women and girls. In her powerful three-part exploration entitled A History of Misogyny, Abril interrogates …
Saman archive started as a collection of negatives taken by professional photographers in Ghana but, says founder Adjoa Armah, the project is much more than a picture library. Taking in many other aspects of Ghanaian culture, it also encompasses her diasporic relationship with the country, and how we think of and create archives. Photography+ writer in residence …
Dance is a universal language of expression. We dance alone, in the privacy of our own homes; we dance together, in pairs and in groups, forming communities based on shared likes and experiences. Photoworks X at Peckham 24 explored the intersection between dance, music and movement through contemporary photography, performance and video, celebrating how these …
This is a question that resounds throughout the history of photography. When Robert Frank first published The Americans, one of the touchstones of modern photography, it was greeted with dismay and derision by many critics including the photographer and editor of Aperture magazine, Minor White, who damned it as , “Utterly misleading! A degradation of a nation!”
Photographs taken in secret by cross-dressers in the 1950s and 60 are now being widely published and shown: curator and editor Isabelle Bonnet has pondered the ethics for and against showing their images, finds Diane Smyth. © Art Gallery of Ontario Andrea Susan (attributed to), Photo shoot with Lili, Wilma, and friends, Casa Susanna (detail), …
The photographic portrait is a troubled category. Representations of non-normative sexualities are dependent upon the forensics of biological determinism, which read signs of difference on the surface of the body as symptoms of abnormality.
Images by Tee Corinne Text by Charlotte Flint In the spring of 1978, American photographer Tee Corinne began working on her remarkable photobook, Yantras of Womanlove: Diagrams of Energy. Following a profound heartbreak, Corinne described how she ‘began to have waking dreams about this book. It became like a lover for me through one of …
Faces are funny things. They are inordinately plastic and expressive, constantly changing according to our health, attitudes and moods—brightening and darkening, lifting and drooping, opening and closing—and always, inexorably in the process of ageing, whatever makeup or makeover manoeuvres we try to pull off.
In partnership with the V&A’s Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project, we are excited to announce the first UK exhibition of Laia Abril’s, A History of Misogyny, Chapter two: On Rape and Institutional Failure, at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham, London. A visual history of misogyny spanning over 2000 years—focusing on the pervasion of rape in societies around the …
