Submit your idea for an exhibition activity loosely related to our upcoming exhibition How To Win At Photography for a chance to be awarded £500 to develop it further. Open to 14-24-year-olds. 

From June 2022, The Photographers’ Gallery will present the group exhibition How to Win at Photography. The exhibition features artists and photographers who play with – and sometimes against – the camera, document the environments of videogames and question notions of identity, gender and class.

We are commissioning a small-scale activity that can engage visitors with the exhibition theme of photography and play during their visit.

Brief

The activity should engage exhibition visitors with some of the themes in the show, as well as the overarching exhibition theme of photography and play. The activity could be something that individuals interact with on their own, with friends or family, or with other visitors in a cumulative way. It might be something that includes photographs, words or a combination of these or other elements. 

You can find out more about How To Win At Photography here as well as its content in the exhibition catalogue here. 

Commission fee: £500 (for concept, idea development and working through)
Production budget: £1,000

Ideally, the activity should:

• offer opportunities for learning/critical engagement with the exhibition theme
• be playful and engaging for, and relevant to, people aged 8 years and more
• be inexpensive to produce
• can be easily distributed and communicated about – either from the ticket desk or within the exhibition space(s)
• create possibilities for sharing with others – either physically or digitally
• be recyclable/low carbon-emitting

Possible formats for the activity: 

• Printed leaflet or game (handed/made available to visitors at exhibition entrance)
• Postcards (that could be shared on magnetic boards on 4th floor or sent out into the world)
• Audio guide with things to do/ways to engage both within and beyond the exhibition (downloadable from TPG’s website)
• Another type of online resource

Deadline for submission is 10am on Thursday 5 May

Please email projects@tpg.org.uk if you have any questions.