— ABOUT
A site for people who
teach and study photography
Resources, articles, collaborations and provocations.
A site for people who
Dear visitor
PhotoPedagogy began as a place to put things down: lesson ideas, articles we'd been meaning to write, projects we wanted to remember. We are two photography teachers in the UK who have, over time, found ourselves making this site for ourselves and for one another, and then quietly for anyone else who happened by. The site is not a programme of study. It is closer to a long, ongoing conversation about what photography teaching can be when it isn't a box to tick, when there's room for noticing, for slowness, for getting it wrong and for being moved.
We make it for photography teachers and students, mostly: in secondary schools, sixth forms, Further and Higher Education and the equivalent abroad. We hear from teachers in their first year and in their thirtieth, from people just discovering they'll be teaching photography next term and wondering where to begin. If you are any of those people, you are welcome here. You're also welcome if you're a student curious about the medium or simply someone who likes thinking about photographs.
We make it for photography teachers and students, mostly: in secondary schools, sixth forms, Further and Higher Education and the equivalent abroad. We hear from teachers in their first year and in their thirtieth, from people just discovering they'll be teaching photography next term and wondering where to begin. If you are any of those people, you are welcome here. You're also welcome if you're a student curious about the medium or simply someone who likes thinking about photographs.
Jon & Chris
— WHAT WE KEEP COMING BACK TO
Things we believe, mostly.
01: Curiosity before mastery
We start with what catches the eye and the questions that follow. Technical skill matters, but it's rarely where the interesting work begins.
02: Permission to experiment
We make space for messing about, for accidents, for things that look 'wrong' at first. Until they don't.
03: Looking slowly
A single picture, looked at with care, can teach more than a list of names. We try to build in the time for that.
I felt compelled to write offering my congratulations on one of the most wonderful resources on photography I have ever come across. Discovering such fantastic content has brought back some wonderful teaching moments for me.
— An ex-FE photography tutor · by email
Thank you for all the inspiration you provide to photographers through your website. The articles and lesson ideas help me a lot to prepare my own courses.
— A photography teacher · writing from abroad
