This afternoon workshop invites participants to explore memory, dreaming and image-making through a collective, hands-on process. Led by Amak Mahmoodian, and drawing her ongoing interest in dreams as shared inner landscapes, the session offers space for reflection, collaboration and experimentation.
Working individually or in pairs, participants will create images using Polaroid cameras, personal smartphones and digital cameras, taking inspiration from memories or dreams they wish to explore (participants may wish to work with a personal object, as well). Alongside this, they will be invited to write about their dreams or memories, which will be displayed together with their images, forming a temporary shared installation within the workshop space.
The session emphasises process and experimentation over outcome, encouraging conversation, exchange and care. The day will include opportunity to work with objects, take short walks, visit the exhibitions, or collaborate with others as part of developing their images.
No prior experience needed and open to all levels, the workshop welcomes a wide range of experiences and reflects Mahmoodian’s belief in dreaming as a powerful tool for connection across personal, cultural and political boundaries.
Schedule
13.30 Entry into Amak Mahmoodian's presentation in the 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize exhibition
14.00 Event start, introductions
14.30 Activities, group discussion
15.15 Break
16.15 Final group discussion
17.00 End
Who is this for?
This course is open to anyone interested in photography and art, with a particular interest dreams, storytelling, the unconscious. No prior knowledge necessary.
Led by artist Amak Mahmoodian.
Details on how to access the sessions will be confirmed upon registration. Please check your junk folders if you haven't received an email from TPG staff confirming your place.
Biography
Amak Mahmoodian is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran in 2003. Since 2010, she has been living in the UK, unable to return to Iran. She practices as a visual artist at the intersection of conceptual image-making and documentary photography, working with photographs, text, video, drawing and archives. She explores the presentation of gender, identity and displacement, working between personal and political across platforms and formats including installation, books and videos.
Mahmoodian’s work has been shown internationally, including; Arnolfini, Bristol; Rencontres d’Arles, Arles; and Peckham 24, London. Her works are held in collections such as the Tate and the British Library in London. She has published two books, Shenasnameh (RRB- ICV Lab, 2016), and Zanjir (RRB, 2019) which was the winner of The Best Photo Text Book award at Rencontres Arles, 2020. Her work appears in key titles on photography such as Photography – A Feminist History (Tate Publishing, 2021), Photography Now: Fifty Pioneers Defining Photography for the Twenty-First Century (Octopus Publishing, 2021), and How We See: Photobooks by Women (10x10 Photobooks, 2019).
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