Photoworks is a UK development agency dedicated to

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed i ...

, based in

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, England and founded in 1995.Photoworks
, Fabrica. Accessed 24 July 2014. It commissions and publishes new photography and writing on photography; publishes the Photoworks Annual, a journal on photography and visual culture, tours Photoworks Presents, a live talks and events programme, and produces the Brighton Photo Biennial, the UK’s largest international photography festival Brighton Photo Biennial,.Photoworks
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. Accessed 24 July 2014.Julian Rodriguez
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, British Journal of Photography. Accessed 23 July 2014.Brighton Photo Biennial
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. Accessed 24 July 2014. It fosters new talent through the organisation of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards in collaboration with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation. It has published photography books by

Daniel Meadows Daniel Meadows (born 1952) is an English photographer turned maker of digital stories, and a teacher of photography turned teacher of participatory media. Life and career as photographer Meadows was born in Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire, " ...

, Mark Power, Stephen Gill, Rinko Kawauchi and Joachim Schmid, and published books written or edited by Val Williams. Photoworks is a

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, funded by

and one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Photoworks in collaboration with local, national and international partners, connect artists with diverse audiences. Its internationally recognised programme includes commissions, exhibitions, publishing, learning and large-scale public events.

History

Photoworks formed out of the Cross Channel Photographic Mission (CCPM) arts project in

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in 1995. It initially consisted of founding director and curator Anne McNeillAnne McNeill: Director, Impressions Gallery
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. Accessed 24 July 2014. and projects manager Liz Kent. In 1997, the organisation moved to

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and then in 2003 to Brighton. In 2011, Photoworks merged with Brighton Photo Biennial.Brighton Photo Biennial Unveils Key Themes
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Directors

*1995–1997: Anne McNeillAbout
, Photoworks. Accessed 24 July 2014. *1997–2010: David Chandler *2010–2013: Emma Morris *2013–2017: Celia Davies *2018–present: Shoair MavlianDiane Smyth,
Shoair Mavlian leaves Tate to become Photoworks director
, British Journal of Photography, 8 January 2018. Accessed 28 January 2018.

Jerwood/Photoworks Awards

The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards is a biennial award given to emerging photographers in the UK who make their own photography, or those who use photographs, archives or found photography. It is a collaboration between the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks, supported by Arts Council England, that launched in 2014. The winners, announced early in the year, receive a financial award (£10,000 as of 2018) plus a £5,000 production fund, and mentoring programme for the duration of that year. The resulting work is shown in a group exhibition at Jerwood Space in London from November and tours to other venues in the UK ( Impressions Gallery in Bradford and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool in 2015 to 2016).

Winners

*2015: Matthew Finn,

Joanna Piotrowska Joanna Piotrowska (born 1985) is a Polish photographer based in London. She works primarily with black and white photography, focusing on themes of history, memory, and repetition. Education Piotrowska earned an MFA from the Royal College of Ar ...

and Tereza Zelenkova. Their mentors were

Gillian Wearing Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. He ...

, Simon Roberts, Broomberg & Chanarin, Alec Soth,

Michael Mack Michael Mack (born December 21, 1978) is a German entrepreneur. Life Mack was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany. He is the son of Roland Mack and his wife Marianne. He has two siblings, Thomas Mack (restaurateur), Thomas (born Januar ...

, curator and art historian Rodrigo Orrantia and ''

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'' photography critic Francis Hodgson. *2017: Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira. *2018: Silvia Rosi and Theo Simpson *2021: Heather Agyepong and Joanne Coates

Publications

*''Noblesse Oblige.'' By Chris Harrison. ent Photoworks, 1996. . Essay by Peter Jerrome. This is the first of ''The Country Life'' series of commissions curated by Val Williams, where artists respond to the George Garland Collection. *''Numbered Portraits.'' Maidstone: Photoworks, 1996. . Photographs by George Garland, photographed and edited by Val Williams from the George Garland archive. Essay by Colin Bennett. *''Toeing the Line.'' By Magali Nougarède. Maidstone: Photoworks; Antwerp: Fotomuseum Antwerp, 2000. . Essay by Liz Kent. Edition of 1,000. *''The Whole Story.'' By Helen Sear. Maidstone: Photoworks, 2000. . Published to accompany the exhibition ''The Whole Story'', November–December 2000, Maidstone Library Gallery. Includes an interview between Helen Sear and the curator Liz Kent. Edition of 1,000 copies. *''The Front.'' By Effie Paleologou. Maidstone: Photoworks, 2000. . Essay by Liz Kent. Published to accompany the exhibition ''The Front'', September–November 2000,

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. Edition of 1,000 copies. *''Kingswood''. Maidstone, Kent: Photoworks, 2000. . By Susan Derges *''Tracing Light.'' Maidstone, Kent: Photoworks, 2001. . By David Alan Mellor. With

Garry Fabian Miller Garry Fabian Miller HonFRPS (born 1957) is a British photographic artist. Since the 1986, he has specialised in camera-less photography. His work was exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2005, at the Rencontres d'Arles in ...

. * ''The Treasury Project''. By Mark Power. Brighton: Photoworks, 2002. . Edition of 1500 copies, of which only 500 were made available for public sale. *''Salvaged 52.'' By Dennis Doran. Brighton: Photoworks, 2004. . Edition of 500 copies. *''Visible Time.'' By David Claerbout. Brighton: Photoworks; University of Brighton, 2004. . Essays by David Green, Joanna Lowry and Gregory Currie. "Published in association with the University of Brighton, to accompany an exhibition at the Herbert Read Gallery, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury in 2004". *''The House in the Middle.'' Edited by Gordon MacDonald. Brighton: Photoworks, 2004. . Photographs by Danny Treacy,

Paul Reas Paul Reas (born 1955) is a British social documentary photographer and university lecturer. He is best known for photographing consumerism in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. Reas has produced the books ''I Can Help'' (1988), ''Flogging a Dead ...

, John Kippin, Richard Billingham, Jo Broughton, Dirk Wackerfuss, Anne Hardy, John Paul Bichard, The

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Archive, the BBC Picture Library, the Collection of Chris Mullen,

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and the Los Alamos National Library. Text by Althea Greenan. "Published to coincide with a Photoworks exhibition at the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, in 2004." Edition of 1,000 copies. *''Monograph - Nigel Shafran.'' Brighton: Photoworks; Göttingen:

Steidl Steidl is a German-language publisher, an international publisher of photobooks, and a printing company, based in Göttingen, Germany. It was started in 1968 by Gerhard Steidl and is still run by him. Overview The company was started by Gerhar ...

, 2004. . Photographs by

Nigel Shafran Nigel Shafran (born 1964) is a photographerLiz Jobey,Photographer Nigel Shafran: domestic harmony" The Guardian, 23 October 2008. and artist. His work has been exhibited at Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum. In the 1980s Shafran worked as a ...

. Edited by Celia Davies, with essays by Val Williams and Paul Elliman, and an interview with Shafran by Charlotte Cotton. *''Nature Studies.'' By Neeta Madhar. Brighton: Photoworks, 2005. . "Published by Photoworks to coincide with the first complete showing of Falling at Fabrica in Brighton during October 2005." Essays by David Chandler and Carlo McCormick. Includes a DVD of the film ''Falling''. Edition of 500 copies. *'' Bettina von Zwehl''. Monograph, with an essay by Darian Leader and an interview with Charlotte Cotton. Göttingen: Steidl; Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. . *''Fig.'' By Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Göttingen: Steidl; Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. . * ''26 Different Endings''. By Mark Power. Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. . Edition of 1,000 copies. *''Photoworks 1982 - 2007.'' By Joachim Schmid. Brighton: Photoworks; Göttingen: Steidl; New York: Tang Museum & Art Gallery, 2007. . Texts by Stephen Bull, Frits Giertsberg, Joan Fontcuberta, Jan-Erik Lundstrom, Val Williams and John S. Weber. *''Theatres of the Real.'' Edited by Joanna Lowry and David Green. With work by Sarah Dobai, Annabel Elgar,

Tom Hunter Sir Thomas Blane Hunter (born 6 May 1961) is a Scottish businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Sports Division Tom set up his first business after graduating from the University of Strathclyde as he was, in his own words, "unemployab ...

, Sarah Pickering, Nigel Shafran, Clare Strand, Mitra Tabrizian, Danny Treacy. Essays by Jan Baetens, David Green and Joanna Lowry. Brighton: Photoworks, 2009. . "Published to accompany the exhibition Theatres of the Real, curated by Joanna Lowry and David Green for Fotomuseum Provincie Antwerpen." Edition of 1,000 copies. * ''The Sound of Two Songs''. By Mark Power. Brighton: Photoworks, 2010. . Edition of 2000 copies. *''Brighton Picture Hunt.'' Photographs by Carmen Soth, edited by Alec Soth. Brighton: Photoworks, 2010. *''Outside In.'' By Stephen Gill. Brighton: Photoworks; London: Archive of Modern Conflict, 2010. . Produced as part of Gill's commission to make a series of photographs for the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial. *''Murmuration.'' By Rinko Kawauchi. Brighton: Photoworks, 2010. . *''Daniel Meadows: Edited Photographs from the 70s and 80s.'' By Val Williams. Photographs by

. Brighton: Photoworks, 2011. . *''The Myth of the Airborne Warrior.'' By Stuart Griffiths. Brighton: Photoworks, 2011. . Edited by Gordon MacDonald. Edition of 500 copies. *''Memory of Fire.'' By Julian Stallabrass. Brighton: Photoworks, 2013. . *''Not Going Shopping.'' By Anthony Luvera. Brighton: Photoworks, 2014. Newspaper format.''Not Going Shopping'' can be viewe
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