Get informal advice on your projects and career during 1-1s with specialists in photography. Our regular Critique Surgeries are a supportive and welcoming space to share your work and get feedback and inspiration for continuting to improve in every way.

This series will be conducted online for the foreseeable future as one-to-one Zoom meetings.

Networking event 

28th May 2022; 1pm - 4pm 

Are you feeling a bit disconnected from the photography community post lockdown? 

This is a relaxed opportunity to reconnect with the photo community and meet other artists working within the region. We would also like to take this opportunity to (re-) introduce ourselves to you and meet you in real life. You will hear from the director of Redeye, Paul Herrmann, as well as a couple of other photographers in a short presentation. Redeye's programme co-ordinator Rebecca Burns will be there too. 

This event welcomes you to join the discussion about commissioning socially engaged projects from both the photographer's and commissioner's point of view. Speakers Gwen Riley Jones and Rosie Naylor talk about their commissioning experience; following that will be an open conversation for all to take part in. 

Feeling inspired during the lockdown, the influential British artist John Stezaker got started on a new body of work, one which is now on show at The Approach in London until the 26th March. Stezaker claims to have “rediscovered the pleasures of drawing” in these works. We encourage you to see the exhibition, Double Shadow, if you can but don't worry if not, there will still be lots to unpack. 

Exhibiting and Print Sales with Peggy Sue Amison

Tuesday, 29th March, 2022; 7pm - 8:30pm

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This event looks at how you can get your work out and seen in public - through exhibitions and galleries. Exhibiting is a great way to get your work to an audience, but many photographers investigate the idea of exhibiting and retreat, baffled by the gallery system in the UK. This workshop is about demystifying the exhibiting process. It explores:

Wedding, Portrait and Social Photography with Guille Ibanez

Tuesday, 22nd March 7pm - 8:30pm

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Commercial and Editorial Photography with Toni Mccoy-Hopwood

Tuesday, 15th March, 2022; 7pm - 8:30pm

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Marketing, Branding and Platforms with Hawwa Alam

Tuesday, 12th April 2022; 6pm - 7:30pm

*Please note the earlier start time of 6pm

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Visibility is everything. Creative careers are being made through social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, but for some this is a difficult and even confrontational environment.