This ground-breaking book situates research at the heart of photographic practice, asking the key question: What does research mean for photographers? Illuminating the nature and scope of research and its practical application to photography, the book explores how research provides a critical framework to help develop awareness, extend subject knowledge, and inform the development of photographic work. The authors consider research as integral to the creative process and, through interviews with leading photographers, explore how photographers have embedded research strategies into their creative practice.
1. Foreword (Peter Kennard)
2. Preface (Shirley Read and Mike Simmons)
3. Case Study: Edmund Clark
4. Case Study: Hannah Collins
5. Case Study: Subhankar Banerjee
6. Case Study: John Darwell
7. Case Study: Grace Lau
8. Case Study: Judy Harrison
9. Case Study: Tom Hunter
10. Case Study: Ingrid Pollard
11. Case Study: Deborah Padfield
12. Case Study: Susan Derges
13. Case Study: Mandy Barker
14. Case Study: Martin Hartley
15. Case Study: Deborah Bright
16. Case Study: Simon Norfolk
17. Case Study: Research in Higher Education, Thu Thuy Pham, Charlotte Fox, and Maria Paschalidou
18. Between Inner and Outer Worlds (Patricia Townsend)
19. Finding and Knowing; Thinking about ideas (Shirley Read)
20. A Photographer in the Archive (Janina Struk)
21. Collaborative Working (Conohar Scott)
22. Documenting the Process (Mike Simmons)
23. Research and Audience (Sian Bonnell)
24. A Curators Perspective (Camilla Brown)
