“There is, of course, a photography rulebook — but it’s there to be broken.
From his studio in Brighton, Mark Power takes a look back at his 40-year career, sharing a comprehensive and pragmatic guide to building a career in photography and pursuing successful long-term projects, all whilst juggling the realities of everyday life. Learn from his creative methods and practice, look in depth at the major projects of his career exploring both familiar and unfamiliar places, and join him on location in Alaska with exclusive, behind-the-scenes footage from his mammoth Good Morning, America project. Engaging and meticulous, Power is a natural teacher, bringing his 25 years of teaching experience to an online audience for the first time in this format. The course includes 18 chapters, totaling over 6 hours of teaching, and provides 9 workbooks with further reading and exercises to help you develop your practice from the comfort of your own home
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About your tutor
Mark Power’s complex, meticulously crafted images have earned him a reputation as one of the forerunners of British photography. Perhaps best known for his seminal work exploring the far-flung locations esoterically described in the BBC’s iconic shipping forecast, Power has adeptly expressed the peculiarities of social culture in places as varied as the UK, Poland and the USA. Power studied painting (1978–81) but turned to photography soon afterward, working on editorial and charity commissions for the next decade. He began lecturing at the University of Brighton in 1992, eventually becoming the professor of photography, before relinquishing his teaching post in 2017. His position at the university coincided with a shift towards long-term, self-initiated projects which still sit comfortably alongside large-scale commissions in the industrial sector. In a career spanning forty years, he has published 13 books: The Shipping Forecast (1996), Superstructure (2000), The Treasury Project (2002), 26 Different Endings (2007), The Sound of Two Songs (2010), MASS (2013), Die Mauer ist Weg! (2014), DTLFTSOTE (2016), Icebreaker (2018) and Good Morning, America, Volumes One, Two and Three (2018, 2019, 2021).
