2026: Photobooks (and how to make them)
£190
October 2026 – December 2026 online - 5 group seminars
Photobooks and how to make them looks at the different stories that photobooks can tell. It looks at how they reflect different national imperatives, how they have been used to address collaboration and the archive, and how sequencing, text, and image can be used to tell stories of social, cultural, and personal change.
It’s about great images, big ideas, and photography meeting historic change, both in how stories were originally told and how they are being addressed today through photobooks and their design. It's about how history is made and is being readdressed, told in an accessible, intelligent style.
This series is ideal for anybody who seeks to understand how images and photobooks are made and understood. It will enrich your understanding of the multiple ways in which photobooks can be made, and will also add layers to how you tell stories and how you can communicate those images to a broader audience through photobooks.
1 Photobook Stories: an overview of photobook histories
2 The Japanese Photobook: Reinvention, conflict, and self
3 The British Photobook: Photographing Decline
4 Collaboration and the photobook: Whose picture is it anyway?
5 The Photobook: Text, Image and Design
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 UK time
Dates: Mondays 12th October, 26th October 10th November, 23rd November, 7th December
Message me at colinpantall@yahoo.co.uk for alternative payment methods
2026 Summer Online Project Development Workshop
NOW SOLD OUT
April - July 2026 online - 5 group seminars and 2 one-to-one tutorials.
£190
Over a period of five sessions (and two 30 minute tutorials) this online course will look at the different ways in which you can develop your personal project.
It will help get you started on a new project, it will get an old project moving in new directions, and it will help complete a project nearing completion.
The course will focus on participants’ practice, the work they are making, and how projects can be developed into coherent stories that might be told in print, in the gallery, in photobooks.
Each session will use the impetus from participants’ projects to highlight how sequencing, text, and narrative overlap and interact.
Peer-to-peer participation is a central element of the course.
Individual sessions will take place in April/July
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 British Time
Dates: Tuesdays 21st April, 28th April, 12th May, 26th May, 9th June
(plus two one-to-one sessions in April and June)
The summer course is now full.
The Autumn course begins in October. You can sign up below.
Message me at colinpantall@yahoo.co.uk for alternative payment methods
Writing for Photographers
Need a text for your project? Do you need some words to get to the heart of your project?
Need a statement that merges theory, practice and what makes your work so unique?
If you do, get in touch. I might be able to help.
Mentoring
I mentor photographers both highly experienced and those who are looking to add a critical element to their practice.
In these mentoring sessions we work together (both in-person and/or online) on how projects can be developed, how theory can tie into practice, how a visual voice can be developed, how text can add to image, how you can strengthen the project you are working on.
Feel free to contact me with any questions if you are are interested.