RESOURCE PACK FOR TEACHERS Lindsey Smith Juliette Buss Mariama Attah November 2015 2 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE CONTENTS 1 FOREWORD 3 2 HOW TO USE THIS RESOURCE 4 3 JERWOOD/PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 EXHIBITIONS: 5 PLANNING A VISIT 4 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTISTS: TEREZA ZELENKOVA 7 MATTHEW FINN 8 JOANNA PIOTROWSKA 9 5 IDEAS AND INSPIRATION: CAPTURE a sense of place 11 COLLABORATE to create portraits 13 CONSTRUCT an image out of context 15 6 USEFUL WEBSITES FOR PHOTOGRAPHY 18 photoworks.org.uk #JPA15 @ photoworks_uk Cover: Works by Joanna Piotrowska, originally commissioned through Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015, installation view at Jerwood Space, November 2015. (Photo © Anna Arca) 3 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE FOREWORD The first Jerwood/Photoworks Awardees are Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza are both active and critically engaged Zelenkova. organisations invested in nurturing ideas, enabling the creation of substantial new work Photography is a powerful tool, capable of and supporting artists in achieving this. The shaping our view of the world. Through it, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards were conceived practitioners explore a breadth of subjects, and to acknowledge some of the best emerging in turn these subjects act to shape our practitioners working with photography and, understanding of photography. Through the crucially, to enable them to make relevant, Jerwood/Photoworks Awards programme, both informed and engaging new work through Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Photoworks having research time, funding and access to demonstrate a commitment to enabling the resources and advice within a thoughtful creation of new work exploring such environment. relationships. To enable a dialogue, we identified a cohort of The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are for well-placed individuals who have formed the photographers and artists making or using Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 Mentors. photography as a core part of their work. For Collectively, they have acted as supportive and this first edition, we invited proposals through trusted sounding boards for the artists, a national call for entries, open to practitioners providing a space to think and talk, where ideas within ten years of establishing their practice. oscillate. To originate a wider conversation The call resulted in more than four hundred around the new work, we also commissioned entries, a testament to the need for such new writing to draw out the concerns within support and the quality of emerging artistic the series and provide both creative responses ideas. The Awards selection panel included and insights into the artists’ enquiries. Celia Davies, Director of Photoworks, Shonagh Manson, Director of Jerwood Charitable The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 Foundation artists Broomberg & Chanarin and exhibition travels across the UK throughout Lucy Kumara Moore, Director of Claire de 2016. This is a platform to showcase the work Rouen books. As you might imagine, the arising from the Awards’ development ‘potential of the idea’ in each submission programme and also an opportunity to prompted much discussion and was the encourage further awareness of the Awards primary consideration in selecting the finalists. amongst artists and photographers who may wish to apply for the next biennial edition of the Awards in 2017. The call for entries for this takes place in autumn 2016 when details will be announced on the Photoworks website. Celia Davies, Photoworks Shonagh Manson, Jerwood Charitable Foundation 4 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE HOW TO USE THIS RESOURCE Works by Tereza Zelenkova, originally commissioned through Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015, installation view at Jerwood Space, November 2015. (Photo © Anna Arca) This resource offers ideas and information to CURRICULUM LINKS support teachers and students in an exploration The pack does not presume to make explicit of the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015, both curriculum links, but the themes outlined in the gallery and back at school. It offers an are appropriate for embedding within a variety insight into contemporary photographic of different schemes of work at different levels practice through using the key concepts in the of study. work of Matthew Finn, Joanna Piotrowska and Tereza Zelenkova as inspiration. It offers ways THIS RESOURCE AIMS TO of engaging students in a critical review and } Engage students in contemporary creative response through prompts for photographic practice discussion, introductory activities and project } Promote analytical thinking and visual ideas for further development. literacy through dialogue and debate } Improve critical understanding and It is aimed at primary, secondary and FE knowledge of photography teachers, with information suitable for } Inspire new ways of working adaptation at different levels. The pack is with photography relevant mainly within the Art & Design, } Stimulate curiosity, imagination and Photography, English, and Media Studies encourage creativity curriculum. However, teachers of other subjects and age groups may also find it useful. 5 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE JERWOOD/PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 EXHIBITIONS The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015 exhibition travels across the UK in 2015 – 2016. EXHIBITION DATES IF YOU PLAN TO VISIT ONE OF THE EXHIBITIONS: 4 November – 13 December 2015 Make an advance visit. Jerwood Space Although it’s not always possible, we would 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN suggest that you visit the venue yourself jerwoodvisualarts.org before bringing a group so that you know what to expect. 5 January – 19 March 2016 Impressions Gallery Contact the venue directly. Centenary Square, Bradford BD1 1SD Please ensure you contact the venue directly impressions-gallery.com to book your visit to avoid clashes with other groups and ensure you don’t miss out on any Autumn 2016 available events and opportunities. Open Eye Gallery 19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront Admission is free to all exhibitions Liverpool L3 1BP openeye.org.uk IF A TRIP TO THE EXHIBITION IS NOT FEASIBLE: This resource can be supported by using the Photoworks website photoworks.org.uk and other links provided in the following information. JERWOOD/PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 CATALOGUE A catalogue accompanies the Jerwood/ Photoworks Awards 2015 exhibition with images, artist statements and new commissioned writing by Elinor Carucci, Ewa Tatar & Aaron Schuman. Available from Photoworks and the exhibiting venues at £4 6 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE Works by Joanna Piotrowska, originally commissioned through Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 2015, installation view at Jerwood Space, November 2015. (Photo © Anna Arca) 7 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE THE ARTISTS: TEREZA ZELENKOVA Tereza Zelenkova has travelled to her native Czech Republic to explore history, local legend and folklore. The eerily beautiful, black and white photographs of woodlands, stone structures and relics are described as dream- like, a coming together of subjective and subconscious associations. Whether by chance or intention, her personal relationship to the place also informs and inspires the images. Personal narrative and cultural myth are implied through the places, scenes and artefacts she photographs but the stories remain untold. I hope to create a portrayal of my home country that reflects its rich history, which I believe is imbued with elements of darkness and melancholy, occasionally seeping to the surface through dark fairytales, forgotten biographies, local histories and superstitions. There are many places and stories, which I think deserve to be documented, preserving something from their individual genius loci through photographs that not only describe and translate, but also enhance the poetics of a place. Tereza Zelenkova, Elizabeth Bathory’s Bedroom, ˆ Cachtice Castle, 2015 Tereza Zelenkova (b.1985, Czech Republic) received an MA in Photography from the RCA in 2012 and was shortlisted for Saatchi New Sensations in the same year. Tereza has several self-published books, The Absense of Myth, was selected as one of the best black and white photobooks of 2013 by The Telegraph. terezazelenkova.com photoworks.org.uk/showcase-tereza-zelenkova/ photoworks.org.uk/interview- jerwoodphotoworks-awardee-tereza-zelenkova/ 8 JERWOOD PHOTOWORKS AWARDS 2015 TEACHERS RESOURCE THE ARTISTS: MATTHEW FINN Matthew Finn has been photographing his mother since 1987. He describes the work as an on-going collaboration. His mother actively participates in some of the portraits but at other times seems more of an observed subject, oblivious to the camera. Sometimes the images shift towards using objects as metaphor and the photographer himself occasionally appears in the image in a reflection. The psyche and perceptions of both subject and photographer are at play here, their intimate relationship key to the work. I am drawn to projects that have direct reference to my life and the people in it. I am interested in people and events that surround me, these become my visual references for projects that may take years to realise. I am drawn to people both as individuals and as types to explore and get to know through picture making. My projects are Matthew Finn, Untitled, from the series Mother, 1987–Present collaborations between photographer and subject set within a world that the subject inhabits Matthew Finn (b.1971, United Kingdom) received his first degree from the University of Derby