Autumn 2025 Online History and Theory Course: Global Histories
September 2025 – December 2025 online - 6 group seminars
£170
Global Histories looks at the ways in which photobooks, design, and politics have played in photographic history. It will look at regional histories and how conflict, colonialism, independence, and economics have helped shaped both the photography of a place and the ways in which it is disseminated.
This series is ideal for anybody who seeks to understand how images are made and understood. It will enrich your understanding of the multiple ways in which images can be read, and will also add layers to how you make images and how you communicate those images to a broader audience.
1 Archives; Their creation, their resuscitation, their recontextualisation
2 Japanese Photography: Reinvention, conflict, and self
3 British Photography: Photographing Decline
4 China: Revolution and Control
5 Collaborative Practices: Whose picture is it anyway?
6 Photobook Stories
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 UK time
Dates: Mondays tbc
2025 Autumn Online Project Development Course
September - December 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, dates tbc
Plus individual sessions in September/December
Autumn 2025 Asia-Pacific Practice and Theory Course
September - December 2025 online – 10 Sessions in total (includes, 8 group seminars and 2 one-to-one tutorials.
£300
Over a period of ten sessions (including two 30 minute one-to-one tutorials) this online course combines theoretical and practical sessions.
There are five practice sessions which 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 with a focus on use of text, sequencing, and narrative.
Three theoretical sessions (on landscape, documentary, and family photography for example) will add theoretical foundations to the course through some fundamental ideas on photography, and how photography past and present connects to history, memory, remembering, and forgetting.
If you’ve never studied photography before and you want an accessible way to get started, with fantastic photography linking in to history, theory, politics and culture, this is for you.
And if you have studied before, and are missing the ideas, the impetus, the images – it’s also for you. 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: 10:00 – 12:00 am British Time
Dates: Wednesdays, dates tbc
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.
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.