Summer 2025 Online History and Theory Course: Contemporary Narratives
May 2025 – July 2025 online - 6 group seminars
£170
Contemporary Narratives looks at how social and cultural change in the post-war era influenced photographic practice around the world, and will look at specific areas of interest within photography, from representation of the body to the family album and how these ideas are communicated in contemporary photography.
If you have never studied photography, these lectures will give you a fast track introduction to the history of photography and its theory. And if you have studied photography, it will present new possibilities that will refresh your understanding of what photography is and what it can be.
1 Humanist Photography
2 Postwar Sentimentalism
3 Street Photography, City, and Self
4 New Landscapes
5 Photographing the Family
6 Fictions and Narrative
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 UK time
Dates: Mondays 5th May, 19th May, 2nd June, Tuesday 16th June, 23rd June, 14th July
2025 Summer Online Project Development Course
May - July 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, 13th May, 27th May, 10th June, 24th June, 15th July
Plus individual sessions in May/July
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.