Photoplay grew out of a conversation with Alejandra Carles-Tolra about her photobook The Bears. The book, about a womxn's rugby team, plays with form, asking the reader to work with unbound diptychs. It's that openness we've tried to carry into a tool for teaching.

It's subtitled No. 01 — a small set because it's our first go at making something modest and playful. We're already thinking about what needs to change and where this idea can go next.

​The prompts are starting points. They draw on a shared commitment to play, risk, experimentation and collaboration in photography teaching. They assume the conditions most of us actually work in: a phone in your pocket, a few minutes of break time, no booked-out studio, no technical support to call on. They work in a corridor, a classroom, the corner of a conference break-out, anywhere two or three people can gather for a moment with their phones.

​The constraint is part of the invitation.

This is a work in progress; we expect it to change as people use it. If a prompt sparks something, follow it wherever it goes.