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Preston is My Paris artist Adam Murray, introduces 16-19 year olds to the processes and applications of making zines.

Agents of Change: Photography and the Politics of Space

Brighton Photo Biennial is the largest and most exciting curated photography festival in the UK and with 60,000 visitors in 2010, one of the best attended in the world.

Evan Wilkinson

Tales in the City - Family Animation Workshops - part of the Brighton Photo Biennial (October 2012).

Showing during Brighton Festival 2012 and commissioned as part of RELAY in response to London 2012

If you could write a message in a bottle, what would it say?

commissioned as part of RELAY in response to London 2012

A new filmwork from the Turner Prize nominated collective is an intimate portrait of poet, painter and philosopher Etel Adnan.

A Photoworks education project in partnership with Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College (BHASVIC) exploring memory, conflict and life stories.

Our latest publication is ready to order now in two special formats: a boxed set of three hardback and one softback volumes and a Collector's set that also includes two signed and numbered prints.

Imperial War Museum, London

A significant new exhibition of work by the Israeli-born, London-based artist Ori Gersht shows in partnership with Photoworks at the Imperial War Museum, London.

An ongoing project led by artist Annis Joslin with students from the University of Brighton enabling undergraduates to gain hands on experience of working in an educational setting supported by an artist. Each year the project runs in a slightly different guise - with different partners or schools/colleges.

Authored by Val Williams

In 1973, photographer Daniel Meadows went on an extraordinary journey, photographing the English as he travelled the country in a double-decker bus. Imagine a young, long-haired hippy with a penchant for Bob Dylan, a sense of adventure and a passion for photography, giving away photographs from his converted double-decker studio.

Stationed as a paratrooper in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s, Stuart Griffiths assembled an extraordinary archive of personal snapshots.

These photographs were made before Griffiths received any formal training in photography and document his experience of soldiering towards the end of the ‘Troubles'. Raw snapshots made for his own personal album, but powerfully evoking the boredom, frustration and fear felt by the group of very young men he served alongside.

A print on-demand book

Hardback with dust jacket
120 pages with 61 colour plates Editors: John Gill and David Chandler
Design by SMITH: Victoria Forrest
ISBN: 978-1-903796-23-8 £40.00 You can preview and purchase the book from Blurb here.

An on-demand book documenting the celebrated Auditorium project, co-commissioned by Photoworks, Glyndebourne Opera House and De La Warr Pavilion.

Artist Sophy Rickett and composer Ed Hughes were each invited to create work in direct response to the architecture of Glyndebourne Opera House.

Sophy Rickett’s film pays particular attention to the mechanics of staging and lighting, stripping Glyndebourne back to its architectural and theatrical core. Simple, slow and monumental movements transform the building into light and shadow, whilst Ed Hughes' soaring score overlays dimensions of musical space and colour.

Including an introduction and foreword by Professor David Chandler, an insightful essay by Professor Nicholas Till and interviews with the commissioned artists, this publication examines Auditorium, its collaborative production and accompanying education project Photo-Operative.

Stills from the film and additional images by Sophy Rickett are presented with manuscript extracts of the score.
This book will appeal to everyone with an interest in the creative process, and with a passion for photography, film, new music or opera. It offers a model for commissioning and education work that encourages collaboration and is a fitting record for this immensely successful project.

An exhibition for HOUSE 2011

Three photographers transform the ordinary into the uncommon in a show curated by Celia Davies for HOUSE 2011.

Sian Bonnell is blogging from Rome

Sian Bonnell questions the role of the photograph in creating fictions as the 2011 Photoworks Senior Research Fellow in photography and lens based media at The British School at Rome.

Reflecting a time of unprecedented creative energy and diversity in photography, the Photoworks Monograph series surveys the work of the most important emerging photographers in the UK. Comprehensively illustrated, and with new, specially commissioned texts, these substantial monographs are the first in-depth study of each artist's work, acknowledging their achievement to date while introducing their work to a broader audience.

Supporting diversity in the arts

Permeate is a positive action bursary scheme, set up by Arts Council England South East. It is designed to increase the diversity of visual arts organisations. Photoworks is one of the first organisations to be awarded a Permeate Fellowship.

Photoworks Commission for Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

A photographic journey across Brighton & Hove with his eight year old daughter formed a captivating portrait of a city for Alec Soth's Photoworks commission, his first in the UK.

A Photoworks Commission for Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

Flocking starlings at Brighton beach draw parallels with swarming crowds in Kawauchi's first UK commission.

Photographers of the American South

An exhibition of prominent American photographers, addressing the physical and psychological landscape of the American South.

Photoworks supports emerging artists

We are delighted to partner the National Media Museum for the 2010 NMM Photography Awards. This year's winners are: Jim Cooke, Anna Fox, Stuart Griffiths, Clarita Lulić, Regine Petersen and Vanessa Winship.  

This Photoworks publication is the result of the artist’s ‘love affair’ with Poland. Power became transfixed by Poland whilst making a one-month project in the country for a Magnum commission in 2004. However, Power believed that his initial investigations in Poland only scraped the surface of a country that is approximately the same physical size as the other nine new EU members added together. Consequently, over the five years, Power made approximately twenty further visits. The archive now consists of 2000 large format 5x4" negatives.

Charleston Farmhouse, Firle, Sussex

A closely framed corner of a kitchen and a collection of household waste becomes the focus of Nigel Shafran's series Compost Pictures.

Our digital project for young people

View-finder is an online arts project by young people for young people. Photoworks has teamed up with the Brighton Photo Biennial and Lighthouse on a project that aims to equip young people with the skills, experience and resources necessary to design an online creative space where they can investigate contemporary digital arts practice, photography and film, and set up opportunities for their friends and families to take part too.  

David Spero's series of urban churches from the ‘charismatic evangelical movement’.

Renowned British photojournalist Thurston Hopkins captures the revived spirit of British life as it emerged from the austere aftermath of World War II.

The Photoworks Fellowship is the first residency at the British School devoted exclusively to photography. David Spero was awarded the first Photoworks Fellowship at the British School at Rome in 2008.

Tim Brennan's esoteric encounter with the Mass Observation Archive.

Over the last ten years, dissatisfied with the often complacent values of the photography world, Clare Strand has assembled a body of work that is both subversive and celebratory in its approach to photographic conventions.

This major commission about Soho, London, uniquely combines drawing and photography to explore the changing nature of our contact with people in public space and issues of surveillance.

An intimate study of St Ann's Well Gardens in Hove, exploring the emotional landscape of a city park and the importance of green space in urban life.

A project with Year 3, Somerhill Junior School, 2008.

Photoworks has a strong educational history and programme that is integral to the organisation’s work and activities. As part of our educational agenda we work with schools to integrate photography into the national curriculum.

An exhibition of Frank Hurley's extraordinary images of the First World War, exhibited as part of 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial.

Edited by Val Williams

This Photoworks publication offers the first comprehensive survey of the work of the important British photographer Anna Fox. The book accompanied a major retrospective of the artist’s work at Impressions Gallery, Bradford, England. Fox was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for this exhibition.

Bettina von Zwehl has built an international reputation for her subtle and unnerving photographic portraits. Her concise series of images are highly controlled both in terms of their minimalist aesthetic and the exacting conditions she imposes on her subjects. Von Zwehl photographs them as they wake from deep sleep, hold their breath, recover from physical exertion, are drenched in rain or listen intently to music in a darkened room; orchestrating a climate in which the sitters relinquish control of the way they are represented. The portraits reveal not the conscious projection of an identity but a space between the subject’s private and thoughtful world and their public appearance.

A film by Sophy Rickett with an original music score composed by Ed Hughes that celebrates Glyndebourne Opera House.

Curated by Benedict Burbridge for Permanent, Brighton

An exhibition of contemporary photographic works by a number of artists each displaying a preoccupation with the supernatural, paranormal or occult.

An exhibition of Robert Capa’s photographs of the Spanish Civil War, commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the death of Julian Bell and the sixtieth anniversary of Magnum Photos.

Drawing together newly commissioned work Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's Fig. traces links between photography, imperialism and the colonial impulse to acquire, map and collect the world.

Fig. features over ninety still lives, portraits and landscapes by photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, drawing together newly commissioned work made around the south coast of England and internationally, tracing links between photography, imperialism and the colonial impulse to acquire, map and collect.

Gareth McConnell’s work is dominated by successive series of simple but highly eloquent portraits of outsider figures, survivors who have lived life to an extreme. Born in Carrickfergus, McConnell’s own experience has been shaped by the violent tensions of Northern Ireland’s recent history and there is a strong autobiographical element in the dialogue and empathy he develops with his sitters. From his powerful portraits of loyalists in the Albert Bar in Carrickfergus to the photographs of an exotic community of young ex-pats in Ibiza, McConnell’s work blends matter-of-factness with disarming intensity. Using only natural light, his photographs celebrate the fragile momentary encounter, while transforming it into something memorable and enduring. Produced by Photoworks, co-published by Steidl Essay by Simon Pooley, Neal Brown and David Chandler and an interview with the artist by Charlotte Cotton. Edited by Celia Davies Designed by SMITH Hardback, 290 x 220mm, 112 pages, 60-80 colour + b&w plates ISBN: 3-88243-977-7 Published in 2004  

British artist Henna Nadeem has worked with found photographic images of the landscape. Photoworks commissioned Nadeem to produce new work using photographs sourced from a series of highly popular books published between 1937 and 1975 by Country Life Magazine entitled The Picture Books of Britain.

Delicately interwoven collages combine western and non-western pictorial traditions to produce lavishly illustrated photographs for this Photoworks commission.

Photographs of the little-known late chapter in the life of the great American photographer Walker Evans.

A student project about Glyndebourne Opera

A series of collaborative works by A level music and photography students made in response to Glyndebourne Opera.

Magali Nougarede's intensely coloured studies of young and elderly people focus on the effect of the generation gap on the segregation of groups of people.

Neeta Madahar's film falling questions our everyday contact with the natural world unsettling the distinction between the orchestrated and the natural.  

An exhibition examining key works of 1970's photography in Great Britain.

Flemish Fields takes us on a tour of amateur and village football teams and their pitches.

This book has now become a highly sought after collector's item.

Since 1996, Sophy Rickett’s photographic work has explored the tension between the narrative tendencies and the abstract possibilities of photography. She has worked almost exclusively at night, building her work around the drama between what the photograph might reveal and what it might conceal.

Photoworks has a strong educational history and programme that is integral to the organisation’s work and activities. As part of our educational agenda, the internship programme provides students and recent graduates with an opportunity to gain real experience of working within an internationally renowned arts organisation.

Photoworks organises portfolio reviews on a regular basis. These are an opportunity for experienced photographers to show their work to reviewers – including leading curators, writers, editors and members of the Photoworks team – for consideration and critical feedback.