This four-month Lab is for photographers who are ready to commit to a project, whether that means beginning something new or finally moving something forward that has been waiting for your attention. We’ll meet twice a month online for focused group sessions centred on close-looking, critique and narrative development. Participants will also be paired into small peer pods to maintain accountability and dialogue between sessions.

Includes:

• eight online group sessions
• four Brighton studio weekends
• guest artist sessions
• peer critique and feedback
• final exhibition at POST Creatives
• inclusion in the digital publication

For those who aren’t ready to commit to the four-month Lab, the Brighton Lab Weekender offers a concentrated entry point into the same ideas and working methods. Held at POST Creatives in Brighton, these weekends are designed as focused intensives where photographers can step away from the noise of everyday life and give their work serious attention.

Includes:

• two intensive studio days
• editing and sequencing sessions
• guest artist conversations
• small group critique

Confirmed Guests:

Simon Roberts
Landscape, proximity and photographing close to home. A conversation on working with place and the subtle politics of landscape.

Nina Emmett
Beyond the image. A session on curation, context and the life of a photographic project once it leaves the studio.

Jessica van der Weert
Working with people. From first encounter to final image, exploring trust, collaboration and photographing with care.

Josh Redfearn
Working in the darkroom. An introduction to analogue process and large-format experimentation, exploring how the physical act of making a photograph can shape the final image.

Harry Hardie
Bookmaking as process. Thinking through editing, sequencing and how photographic work finds form as a physical object.

These sessions are designed to be practical, conversational and reflective, offering participants the chance to engage directly with different ways of thinking about photographic practice.

Across the weekend we will work with prints, editing, sequencing and narrative development, while also exploring the role of place in shaping photographic stories. Participants can join for the full weekend or attend individual days, allowing you to curate your own learning depending on what feels most relevant to your practice. Each Brighton weekend will include sessions led by artists and practitioners working across different areas of photographic practice.

Includes:

• participation in one day of the Weekender programme
• guest session & editing discussions

Confirmed Guests:

Simon Roberts
Landscape, proximity and photographing close to home. A conversation on working with place and the subtle politics of landscape.

Nina Emmett
Beyond the image. A session on curation, context and the life of a photographic project once it leaves the studio.

Jessica van der Weert
Working with people. From first encounter to final image, exploring trust, collaboration and photographing with care.

Josh Redfearn
Working in the darkroom. An introduction to analogue process and large-format experimentation, exploring how the physical act of making a photograph can shape the final image.

Harry Hardie
Bookmaking as process. Thinking through editing, sequencing and how photographic work finds form as a physical object.

These sessions are designed to be practical, conversational and reflective, offering participants the chance to engage directly with different ways of thinking about photographic practice.