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Photography as Dialogue

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Photography As Dialogue brings together writing, projects, research and a film that explore how communities, researchers and artists are using photography to carve out and open up spaces for conversations. This special issue of the academic journal Photography & Culture, edited by Tiffany Fairey and Liz Orton, explores the dialogical potential… Continue reading

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ISSP 2019 Publication – Photography and the World

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K: Well, I like what you said that a lot of people use the camera as a way of “being-in-the-world” but in my mind, the theme is a reminder to look beyond yourself… like, there’s a whole world out there, don’t lose perspective. “Photography” has quickly become its own topic,… Continue reading

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Taking Part Resident Artist Interview | Eva Sajovic

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“As part of Taking Part Residency at Photofusion I am hoping to continue working with marginalized communities in London affected by processes of ‘urban regeneration’, using participatory photography as a tool to create counter narratives to the prevalent mainstream narrative. While forces of displacement are pushing people to migrate, more… Continue reading

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Taking Part Resident Artist Interview | D.Wiafe

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“What if the spirit behind the Root’s 1996 “What They Do” could be re-imagined as a manual for reframing our suspicions of criminal affiliation? With the increasing power of photography to incriminate, corroborate or exonerate when it is called as evidence, this new work for Taking Part will investigate questions… Continue reading

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Taking Part Resident Artist Interview | Gemma-Rose Turnbull

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“The Taking Part residency is an extremely exciting opportunity, which acknowledges a rich history of community-based photographic practice within the UK, but also highlights the way in which methodologies of participation and collaboration––making work with people, rather than taking photographs of people––is becoming an increasingly refined and innovative contemporary practice.… Continue reading

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Beyond the walls: A social practice project goes global

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Answers Without Words, a photography project, fosters creative dialogue between incarcerated artists in Oregon and photographers from around the world SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 by HANNAH KRAFCIK (original post here) I am watching a group of men set a scene to be photographed. Ben Turanski, one of the prisoners at Columbia River Correctional… Continue reading

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Taking Part Talks

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  If you’re interested in how issues related to representation and engagement, intentions and benefits, process and product, and ethics and aesthetics, play out in socially engaged photography, the Taking Part Talks are happening in Brixton, London this coming Saturday the 10th of March. Speakers include Gemma-Rose Turnbull, Eva Sajovic, Wright & Vandame, D. Wiafe, Sophie… Continue reading

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Answer U.S. Prisoners’ Questions With Photos

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How do you describe your culture, your nation? Would you describe it differently to someone overseas? Would you describe it differently to someone in prison overseas? What if that prisoner overseas asked you not to use words but to use images in your response? These are not hypothetical questions, at… Continue reading

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The Fish That Never Swam

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While not an exclusively collaborative project Kirsty Mackay is incorporating some measures of participation and shared representation into her new body of work (for which she was just awarded the Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award for developing photographers), The Fish That Never Swam. In this series Mackay is revisiting Glasgow, her… Continue reading

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Taking Part at Photofusion

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Taking Part A group exhibition of socially-engaged photography by Eva Sajovic, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, D. Wiafe, and Wright & Vandame. Curated by Anthony Luvera. 22 February – 17 March 2018 Photofusion 17a Electric Lane London, SW9 8LA Tue to Sat 10.30am – 5.30pm   In September 2016, Photofusion launched a participatory photography residency… Continue reading

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What matters is what you do with the image: JR’s Inside Out

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Interview with Marc Azoulay, manager of JR’s Inside Out project.   As far as participatory arts experiments go, Inside Out is staggering for its scope and scale. The French photographer JR launched the global participatory art project when he won the $1million Ted prize in 2011. He is the youngest… Continue reading

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Young People’s Guide to Self-portraiture

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In the summer of 2016, Anthony Luvera collaborated with a group of eight young people aged 16-21 years to research self-portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. Out of this research they created the Young People’s Guide to Self-portraiture as part of the NPG’s Heritage Lottery-funded project following the acquisition of Flemish Baroque… Continue reading

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A conversation about conversation with Ben Krewinkel

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  How do you tell a story of an undocumented immigrant? In my first approach I tried using the sheer documentary mode of telling a visual story, just to find out I still couldn’t get a grip on the complete story. For the project A Possible Life, I tried a… Continue reading

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Culture Shifts brochures

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Culture Shifts is a socially engaged photography programme, working with 11 national and international photographers embedded in communities across seven areas of Liverpool City Region. The project seeks to support communities to explore their stories in a way that is meaningful to them. Collaborating with photographers, communities have co-authored a series of… Continue reading

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Let Us Eat Cake

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In 2017 the rights of LGBTQ+ people across the United Kingdom may appear to be equal and secure. However, in Northern Ireland today, marriage equality for queer people does not exist as it does elsewhere in the UK or in the Republic of Ireland. Reported homophobic hate crimes have risen… Continue reading

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Free Photo Portraits: Brixton Pound

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“The Taking Part residency is an extremely exciting opportunity, which acknowledges a rich history of community-based photographic practice within the UK, but also highlights the way in which methodologies of participation and collaboration––making work with people, rather than taking photographs of people––is becoming an increasingly refined and innovative contemporary practice. –… Continue reading

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Q&A: Gemma-Rose Turnbull

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  first published September 21st, 2017 at Strange Fire Collective   Gemma-Rose Turnbull is an Australian artist, writer, Senior Lecturer in photography at Coventry University, and the joint Course Director of the MA Photography and Collaboration with Anthony Luvera, which is due to launch in January 2018. Gemma’s research interests lie… Continue reading

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Photography as Wellbeing

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  Between November 2016 and September 2017 Gary Bratchford and Robert Parkinson undertook an onsite residency in Halton, Liverpool, as part of the Open Eye Cultural Shifts project. During this 10-month period they worked with two distinct and pre-determined groups; The Women of Windmill Hill in Runcorn and the Widnes Vikings… Continue reading

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Winds of Change: A collaborative project by Tony Mallon and the Women of Northwood’s Golden Years group.

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As part of the current Culture Shifts programme led by Open Eye Gallery, (which I manage, in the role of Creative Producer), I wanted to delve into more detail about the methodologies employed by photographic artist Tony Mallon. Mallon, a Liverpool (UK) based photographic artist, has a strong history of… Continue reading

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The Blind Photographer: the remarkable world of sensory photography

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  The Blind Photographer, published at the end of last year by Redstone Press, is a photography book that challenges our conception of what it means to see. Showcasing the work of more than fifty blind or partially sighted photographers from around the world, it celebrates the thriving and counter-intuitive… Continue reading

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In Assessing ‘Photo Requests From Solitary’ Let’s Ask If the Image Meets the Prisoner’s Brief?

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“I would like to receive a photo of the new world trade centre buildings, in whatever stage of rebuilding they’re in. A nice view from a nearby building would be nice. Could the photographer take the photograph from a nearby rooftop?” Terrence’s request answered by Anthony Tafuro for Photo Requests… Continue reading

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Q&A: Mark Strandquist

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first published January 28th, 2016 at Strange Fire Collective   Mark Strandquist is a cultural organizer who has spent years using art as a vehicle for connecting diverse communities to build empathy and support for social justice movements. At the core of his practice is the belief that those most… Continue reading

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Shock and Awe: An interview with Ethan Rafal

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I met Ethan when we were artist mentors together at Southern Exposure in 2015. Since then I have watched his practice grow into the world in a way that I find really exciting and that I really relate to. So I asked him if he would let us explore his practice a… Continue reading

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SHARED VISION: DIÀNA MARKOSIAN with Rebecca McClelland

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The work of Magnum Photos’ Diàna Markosian takes documentary photography into new, collaborative territory where the subject becomes co-creator. Ahead of their interview at PhotoLondon, photographic director Rebecca McClelland talks to Markosian about her process   This article was originally published on CREATIVE REVIEW and is republished here with permission. This… Continue reading