2026: A Short Guide to History, Theory and Practice Online Course
Begins January 2026
£180
A Short Guide to History, Theory, and Practice gives a visual overview of the origins of major photographic areas such as landscape photography, portraiture, and conflict.
It looks at some of the key photographers and ideas that have shaped how we see the world today and also presents a global, pluralist outlook on both the wonderful expressive and artistic qualities of the photographic image, as well as its darker side.
If you haven’t studied photography before this is a great and accessible introduction to its past and present theory and practice.
And if you have studied photography before, this will be an engaging reminder of what you are missing.
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: Starts Monday 26th January, 2nd February, 16th February, 2nd March, 16th March, 23rd March
2026 Spring Online Project Development Workshop
January - April 2026 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.
It will help get you started on a new project, it will get an old project moving in new directions, and it will help complete a project nearing completion.
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.
Individual sessions will take place in January/April
Time: 18:00 – 20:00 British Time
Dates: Tuesday 27th January, 10th February, 24th February, 10th March, 24th March
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.
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 you can strengthen the project you are working on.
Feel free to contact me with any questions if you are are interested.