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 1st 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
Writing for Photographers (with Simon Bainbridge and the BJP)
London, 19th October
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 project statement
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Identify the key elements of your work
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Gain insights into how you can use text and image
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Do exercises on how to use writing as a tool for identifying your purpose
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Experiment with how to simplify language and be direct in your writing
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Learn how to engage and interest your audience
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Examine how to adapt your own texts for different audiences
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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.