Spring 2025: A Short Guide to History, Theory and Practice
February 2025 – April 2025 online - 6 group seminars
£170
A Short Guide to History, Theory, and Practice will examine the visual origins of major photographic areas such as landscape photography, portraiture, and conflict, the first series will look at some of the key photographers and ideas that have shaped how we see the world today and will also present a global, pluralist outlook on both the wonderful expressive and artistic qualities of the photographic image, as well as its darker side.
1 The Face – Who does the looking
2 Photography as witnessing – What we look at and what we do about it
3 Landscape – Where we look and what we show
4 Staged photography and self-portraiture – Looking at oneself
5 Photography, anthropology and travel – Looking at others
6. Documentary matters – Looking at how we look
Time: 18:00 - 20:00 UK time
Dates: Mondays 3rd February, 17th Feb, 3rd March, 17th March, 31st March, Monday 7th April
2025 Spring Online Project Development Course
January 2025 – April 2025 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 for a coherent starting point, or possible exhibition, publication, or professional dissemination.
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.
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 British Time
Dates: Tuesdays, 28th January, 11th February, 25th February, 11th March, 25th March
Plus individual sessions in January April
Photography and Ethics with Savannah Dodd (in person)
Using interactive examples and exercises, this workshop will examine the ethics of photography and the principles of photography in order to apply this knowledge to writing a Statement of Ethics for your own work.
Throughout the day, you will be encouraged to identify: the ethical principles that underpin your practice; how these principles are expressed in your photographic work; and how these influence your visual voice. By the end of the workshop, you will have begun to draft your own Statement of Ethics. You will be invited to submit your completed statement to apply for Photography Ethics Certification after the workshop. This certification is included in the workshop price.
On this course you will:
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Analyse the key language of the ethics of photography
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Look at how ethics has been embedded in photographic practice
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Identify principles in contemporary and historical photography
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Identify your own photographic principles
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Examine how collaborative practice can be integrated
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Look at examples of Statements of Ethics
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Create a draft of your own Statement of Ethics
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Submit your Statement of Ethics following the course with the Photography Ethics Centre
This workshop is facilitated by Colin Pantall and Savannah Dodd.
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2025
Time: 10:00 - 18:00 UK time (GMT)
Location: New Oriel Hall, Bath, England, BA1 6RA
Fee: £250 per person, with a maximum of 12 participants
This workshop is strictly limited to 12 participants. Please reserve your ticket today to guarantee your place.
Writing for Photographers with Simon Bainbridge (Online)
Writing for Photographers (with Colin Pantall and Simon Bainbridge)
Saturday 8th February - 10:00 - 18:00 UK time
A one-day introductory workshop on how to write about your photography. Using interactive examples and exercises, the workshop will examine various forms of writing, the different voices that can be delivered for different purposes, how to start writing, and how to write a convincing and engaging statement about your work.
Throughout the day, you will be encouraged to identify your interests, and to use writing to channel the purpose of your work and to express your voice. You will be given help to write your own personal statement, and get feedback on your writing in one-to-one, 30-minute follow-up sessions at a later date.
On this course you will:
Find ways to get started with writing
Develop your own personal statement
Identify the key elements of your work
Gain insights into the different ways to use text and image
Learn how to engage and interest your audience
Get feedback on your writing in a follow-up one-to-one session with a tutor
Reserve Your Space
£250 Per Person
10:00 - 18:00 plus follow-up one-to-one tutorial
This workshop is strictly limited to 12 participants. Please reserve your ticket today to guarantee your place.
Writing for Photographers (in person with Simon Bainbridge and the BJP)
London, 7th December NOW SOLD OUT
A one-day introductory workshop on how to write about your photography. Using interactive examples and exercises, the workshop will examine various forms of writing, the different voices that can be delivered for different purposes, how to start writing, and – ultimately – how to write a convincing and engaging statement about your work.
Throughout the day, you will be encouraged to identify your interests, and to use writing to channel the purpose of your work and to express your voice. You will be given help to write your own personal statement, and get feedback on your writing in one-to-one, 30-minute follow-up sessions at a later date.
On this course you will:
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Find ways to get started with writing
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Develop your own personal statement
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Identify the key elements of your work
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Gain insights into the different ways to use text and image
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Learn how to engage and interest your audience
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Get feedback on your writing in a follow-up one-to-one session with a tutor
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Reserve Your Space
£250 Per Person
10:00 - 18:00
BJP Offices, London E2
This workshop is strictly limited to 12 participants. Please reserve your ticket today to guarantee your place.
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 contemporary practice connects to a wider history of photography. If you've never studied photography, I will bring you up to speed on the theory and the practice.
Feel free to contact me with any questions if you are are interested.
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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.