Photoworks

Photoworks Annual is replacing our biannual journal Photoworks with a double-sized, themed volume every autumn.

Creating a landmark event in the international photography calendar, every alternate issue will be published alongside the Brighton Photo Biennial, also produced by Photoworks. More than twice the size of previous issues, the Annual will be a substantial volume.

Celia Davies, Acting Director and co-editor of Photoworks Annual, explains,

‘We aim to build on our journal’s reputation as an important forum for debate and maintain Photoworks high production values, strong visual appeal and readable style. Photoworks Annual will be stimulating, surprising and authoritative, curated as much as edited. Every year we’ll focus on a new theme for the Annual, to help draw out relationships between different practices and continue to look beyond the immediate photography world, garnering opinion, thought and perspectives from contributors from a range of disciplines and backgrounds.’

‘Since our journal’s inception over a decade ago, the means by which photography is used, shared and understood have been transformed. We’re making proactive changes in how and when we publish, to reflect how our audience like to contribute to and keep in-touch with debates around photography today. We’ll be commissioning more writing than ever and alongside the printed Annual we’ll be publishing new material throughout each month online on our redesigned website.’

Photoworks co-editors Benedict Burbridge and Celia Davies will edit Photoworks Annual. The inaugural issue will launch in November 2013, taking ‘Family Politics’ as its theme.

Celia continues,

‘The subject of ‘The Family’ can be both private and public: the site of intimate inter-personal relations and a social construct subject to public and political pressures. This relationship is mirrored in examples of family photography. The majority of family pictures serve essentially private functions, accruing meaning through their relationship to the memories, experiences and histories of individuals. However, the family is also the subject of public photographic representation and contestation, largely through digital media and over sharing. This involves a wide variety of practices, including representations in the mass media, art and advertising.

The first issue will launch alongside a companion Jerwood Encounters exhibition at Jerwood Space, London and curated by Photoworks. Following an open call for submissions, the exhibition will present new commissions and/or existing work by three UK based emerging artists/photographers relating to the Annual’s theme.

Selling at £20 Photoworks Annual will continue to be stocked by specialist booksellers and galleries worldwide and will be sent free to all Photoworks Members.