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A woman stands on a red dirt road, face turned upward, wearing a sleeveless, cream muslin shirt.

Shooting on Set: Fiona Lewis and Des Willie

Fiona Lewis and Des Willie run through their top tips for photographing on television and film sets.

Person holding a camera and a play button layered over the top of the image

Develop: Creative Careers Through Photography

A video introducing the Develop: Creative Careers Through Photography programme

Shoot! Existential Photography

A Young Person Recommends... Shoot! Existential Photography

Tamsin Paternoster reviews the book Shoot! Existential Photography by Clement Cheroux

A photograph of a book open on a page with writing on the left and a person facing outwards on the right.

A Young Person Recommends... Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs

Malakiya Phombeah Savage reviews the book Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll

What is Photopoetry?

What is Photopoetry?

An essay by Michael Nott on the roots of photopoetry

Peter Kennard, Haywain with Cruise Missiles, Chromolithograph on paper and photographs on paper, 1980. Image courtesy Tate, London

Built Worlds: Photography, landscape and different natures

In this essay, artist and senior lecturer Fergus Heron explores the rich relationship between landscape and photography

Deer browse-line (various species) from the series A Certain Movement by Sam Laughlin

Sam Laughlin

A portfolio of images by Sam Laughlin entitled A Certain Movement

Person wearing a lot of making up and a strap dress looks in to the lense.

A Young Person Recommends... Another Kind of Life

Noor Shahzad reviews the exhibition Another Kind of Life at the Barbican

Portfolio laid out with hands.

Preparing Your Portfolio

Preparing your portfolio can be a daunting task, so we've put together some advice to help you prepare it. With thanks to photographer and course leader Jason Evans, plus all

SJ Fowler, A Last Day at the Museum of Futures

A Few Words

An exploration of the intersections between poetry and photography by writer and artist Steven J Fowler

Interior of an exhibition showing photographs on walls that jut out into space.

Curating Exhibitions: Anna Dannemann and Tom Lovelace

Anna Dannemann and Tom Lovelace offer up some complementary advice on things to think about when curating photography exhibitions.

Laura Letinsky, Untitled #18, 2011

Notes on Laura Letinsky and Lightness

This essay was commissioned and published during the exhibition Laura Letinsky: Ill Form and Void Full , held at The Photographers' Gallery between 18 Jan – 17 April 2013.

DB 2011

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011

Awarded to: Jim Goldberg. Nominees: Thomas Demand, Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry.

DB 2012

Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012

Awarded to: John Stezaker. Nominees: Pieter Hugo, Rinko Kawauchi, Christopher Williams.

Les deux amis, Malick Sidibé,1976

A Young Person Recommends... Studio Africa!

Lara Baxter reviews the exhibition Studio Africa! at Tristan Hoare

DBPFP2017 Poster

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017

Awarded to: Dana Lixenberg. Nominees: Sophie Calle, Awoiska van der Molen, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs.

Mimi Mollica, Woman with a takeaway sandwich on Kingsland Road, Hackney, Spring 2015. From the series East Up Close

Building a Network: Jenny Lewis and Mimi Mollica

Jenny Lewis and Mimi Mollica offer advice on how photographers can grow understand and their network to support their own and others' work.

A woman stands next to a field pointing skyward. Around her waist like a belt is a blue plastic bag.

Photographing Communities: Marysa Dowling and Russell Watkins

Photographer Marysa Dowling and PhotoVoice Chair and photographer Russell Watkins offer tips on working with communities.

Black and white head and shoulders portrait of a white man wearing aviator style glasses looking off to the right smiling slightly.

Commissioning Music Photography: Dan Wilton and Ben Weaver

Dan Wilton and Ben Weaver talk about some of the ins and outs of photographing people in the music industry.

Balancing Commercial and Personal Work: Ewen Spencer and Olivia Gideon Thomson

Balancing Commercial and Personal Work: Ewen Spencer and Olivia Gideon Thomson

Ewen Spencer and Olivia Gideon Thomson offer advice on striking a balance between personal and commercial work.

Our Curated Themes

A photograph of a crowd of people holding lights in the night.

A Story Behind a Photograph

A digital unicorn in human clothes walks along a 2D digital forest landscape

Screen Walks

A young photographer talks to a room of people

Artist Talks: Watch and Listen

Large 50th anniversary ident

50 Exhibitions for 50 Years

Dafna Talmor, Untitled (NE-040404-1), From the series Constructed Landscapes, 2015

Photography and Landscape

Returnings, David Rickard & SJ Fowler 2016

Photography and Poetry