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