Photography Commission 

About the project

​Us began in 2019, as a public engagement research project facilitating 300+ people to express creatively how invisibility plays a role in their lives & how it impacts them daily. For 2023-24, we are exploring how the unseen can shape human interaction and how presumption and prejudice force exclusion. This project will experiment with how movement, sound and image can make the invisible be seen, heard and felt, in the most visible way possible, centre stage and through the lens.

We are making a suite of work to respond to flexible programming opportunities, which includes a dance-for-drone film, an onstage choreographic work and an exhibition featuring an interactive element and photographic work. 

 

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The Role

We’re looking to commission a photographer to produce a series of images in response to the concept Us for an initial month-long residency at Rich Mix, London. 

 

Wrapped within the concept of invisibility, we are looking for a photographer to conceive and develop the photography series which could be based on your own lived experience of invisibility or through a relationship you may hold to invisibility. When we use the term invisibility, we’re referring to what that means to you. Our research has touched upon; invisible disability, mental health, social norms, ethnicity, gender, culture and religion. Invisibility could mean something different to you. 

 

The commission is open to artists for whom photography is central to your practice. 

 

You may be a portrait photographer, or landscape photographer or specialise in photo journalism - we’re open to all styles of photography. Please use your expression of interest to explain your photographic style and experience. 

The commissioned artist will be responsible for the production of the exhibition, in collaboration with CWC Artistic Director and Exec Producer, and must be arranged within the agreed production budget. 

 

The commissioned artist must be able to demonstrate how the values of CWC (inclusivity, empowerment and kindness) align with their practice and professional delivery, and be open to collaborating closely with the Artistic Director. 

 

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Commission Information 

There is no limit to the number of photographic images that you may produce and you will work with our Artistic Director Cathy Waller to curate the final selection. 

 

There is a separate production budget and an access budget that we will discuss with the commissioned photographer. 

 

For the exhibition residency at Rich Mix, we have a corridor gallery; two walls on the mezzanine level measuring 8-10m width x 2.4m high which also incorporate the research material and a title panel. 

 

The resulting exhibition will need to have some flexibility in how it’s presented to respond to the varying types of exhibition spaces which we wish to tour in 2025/26. These venues may be theatres, libraries, hospitals or galleries. This may also influence what the exhibition is printed on and how it is hung. We’re open to alternative and/or sustainable print and presentation formats.

 

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