Articles
A bit longer than a blog post, these articles are written by members of the photography teacher community, exploring a range of topics. Why not write one yourself and send it to us?
Words & Pictures by Katherine Leedale
"I’m a photographer, visual artist, and workshop facilitator who cannot stay away from words. I’d like to share a project I helped run with young people earlier in the year, as well as some general reflections on the interaction between writing and photography." Read more...
My Photopedagogy by Nicole Stager
"I’ve had to reflect, not only on the slow change that I’ve seen in the students’ idea of meaning, but also on what makes my own photography meaningful." Read more...
My Photopedagogy: Teaching, photography & teaching photography by Graham Hooper
"I maximise looking, talking, thinking and sharing. I want my lessons to be entertaining, profound and useful. I am trying to create an environment that is genuinely experiential, immersive and utterly captivating." Read more...
Things about Photography by Chris Francis
"I’ve been thinking deeply about approaches to Year 12 Photography this year, and specifically how best to set about teaching and learning our beautiful, complex subject." Read more...
Who holds the knowledge anyway? by Jai Tyler
"The aim for the way in which I work at the gallery is to support joint learning, to remove the idea of the traditional expert and encourage instead learning from one another in an attempt to level or flip the knowledge hierarchy." Read more...
Performing for the camera: Posing Problems for Photographic Portraiture by Graham Hooper
"For teachers of photography, portraiture can be a minefield. Young people subjected to (and enamoured by) pouting girls on Instagram or high-glamour fashion shoots in Vogue come to the genre with high-expectations." Read more...
Training the next generation of photography teachers by Jon Kime
"In recent years there has been an increase in the number of school art departments offering some form of digital photography as an option for their students to pursue, whether as part of an existing art and design course or as a stand alone GCSE in itself." Read more...
What is photography? by Jon Nicholls
"One of the many exciting challenges in teaching photography at whatever level is getting students to think hard about the nature of the subject. Why is this important?" Read more...
The Idea of Wrong by Daniel Freaker
"In a world saturated by perfect images and every app available ready to spruce up your photo, why is Wrong such a good starting point?" Read more...
Threshold Concepts in photography by Jon Nicholls
"What are the threshold concepts that help to define the discipline of photography? Over a period of weeks I worked with colleagues in and outside my school to develop a set of ten concepts." Read more...
The Wisdom of Crowds by Susan M Coles
"This new informal way of learning is both supportive and non judgmental. It’s also there whenever people want to take advantage of it. It's there to ask questions and to answer them and to empower people to sometimes seek out their own answers." Read more...