Writing About Photography

Writing About Photography: unlocking stories from the archives to create press releases for your collections

About the Online Workshop:
This is a (virtual) hands-on workshop on writing about photography for publication. Anyone who works with photographic collections knows that there are great stories hidden in the archives just waiting to be written about. In this online workshop, Tom Seymour will share his knowledge of how to craft jargon-free press releases to help you share the hidden stories and histories of the photographic collections you work with.

Tom will discuss how to research stories and structure a press release, the workshop also includes a short activity to enable you to develop your writing skills.

About the speaker:
Tom Seymour is an independent art writer specialising in photography, Tom writes for the British Journal of Photography, BBC, Wallpaper, Frieze Magazine, Guardian and many other publications.

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