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Peter Marlow Foundation Creative Retreat

Experimental Station in Dungeness where the retreat will be based. Credit: Peter Marlow

10th October – 13th October, 2025Peter Marlow FoundationExperimental StationDungeness RoadDungenessTN29 9ND By Booking Only  The team at Peter Marlow Foundation are proud to announce their latest creative retreat in the beautiful surroundings of Dungeness, Kent. A group of 12 photography-based practitioners will have the opportunity to work together with their peers and socially engaged artist, writer […]

Families Living in Temporary Accommodation (2022-2024)

When a family is experiencing homelessness, it becomes the duty of a local authority to move them into temporary accommodation. The reasons families face homelessness are many – they could be fleeing domestic violence, facing eviction, or struggling to meet the cost of increasing rent. There are 109,000 households in temporary accommodation in England, which […]

She / Her / Hers / Herself (2018-2023)

She / Her / Hers / Herself is the culmination of a five-year collaboration between myself and Sarah Wilson, which explores one individual’s experience as they navigate their transgender identity. The work charts wide-ranging changes in Sarah’s life, as she establishes a career as a beautician, passes a series of personal milestones, and lives day-to- […]

Construct (2018-2022)

Construct was created between 2018 and 2022, in collaboration with people who have experienced homelessness in Birmingham. Over four years, I was embedded within the support services of SIFA Fireside, Birmingham’s main day centre for homeless and vulnerably housed adults. I began by working in the kitchen, preparing and serving meals, before inviting participants to […]

Agency (2020-2021)

I was invited to create work with people experiencing homelessness in Coventry in February 2020. Plans were made and arrangements put in place, but then a few weeks later the COVID19 pandemic took hold across the world and the United Kingdom was in lockdown. Preparations for undertaking this commission by Coventry UK City of Culture […]

Frequently Asked Questions (2017-2020)

Considering the ways policy, legislation, and services–at both local and national levels–assist or otherwise impact on people experiencing issues with housing is an important aspect of my practice. ‍Frequently Asked Questions is a research-driven artwork that focuses on the impact of homelessness at the national level, demonstrating the true scale of the crisis through an individual’s […]

In Conversation (2019)

For In Conversation, I collaborated with transmasculine and non-binary people to explore their views on masculinity and how their experiences have developed over different stages of their lives. Using personal photographs as a starting point, these conversations address upbringing, male privilege, the body, race, name-changing, the family, and the politics of identity. In Conversation was commissioned […]

Magnum & BJP Professional Practice Series: NGOs, Social Practice and Advocacy

Learn how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are using photography and visual storytelling in their work and what they are looking for from a collaboration with a photographer. Discuss developments in critical theory around issues of representation and community engagement, and the ethical considerations of using storytelling as a tool for social change. Discover how to use […]

Reimag(in)ing Homelessness, University College London Institute of Advanced Studies

This interdisciplinary panel discussion will consider approaches to the visualisation of homeless experience and ask: how can a psychoanalytic framework for thinking about this material help us understand produce new understandings? The idea of being at home and having a home are ideas embedded in psychoanalytic theory and practice. However, while Freud’s paper on the […]

National Photography Symposium 2018: The Future of Work in Photography

Redeye is delighted to be returning with the next National Photography Symposium (NPS), its biennial event, this year held at the MediaCityUK base of the University of Salford. Held over three dynamic and engaging days, The Future of Work in Photography will be a chance for people working with or in photography to discuss current issues, trends, ideas […]

The Social: Framing Other People, The Photographers’ Gallery

Join artist Anthony Luvera and activist Edward Whelan for our regular bar night for photographers and artists offering tips on a theme. Tonight our speakers address the subject of how photographic portraits can be produced with sensitivity, dialogue and genuine collaboration. This iteration of The Social has been organised in the context of the exhibition […]

Taking Part, Photofusion

An exhibition of socially-engaged photography curated by Anthony Luvera featuring the work of Eva Sajovic, Gemma-Rose Turnbull, D. Wiafe, and Wright & Vandame. In September 2016, Photofusion launched a participatory photography residency programme to enable four emerging artists to work with communities across South London, while receiving mentorship and opportunities for developing and sharing their […]

Frequently Asked Questions, with Museum of Homelessness

22nd – 28th January, 2018 Tate Liverpool I’m homeless and have no money – Where can I go for something to eat and drink? Where can I find shelter when it is raining or snowing? Where can I go to the toilet during the day? Where can I go to the toilet during the night? […]

Let Us Eat Cake (2017)

In 2017 the rights of LGBTQ+ people across the United Kingdom may appear to be equal and secure. However, in Northern Ireland today, marriage equality for queer people does not exist as it does elsewhere in the UK or in the Republic of Ireland. Reported homophobic hate crimes have risen year on year for almost […]

letuseatcake.blog

letuseatcake.blog charts the process of Anthony Luvera and a group of seven LGBTQ+ people as they create work for Queer Visions of Peace, a project that celebrates the queer communities of Northern Ireland during a time of conflict transformation. Chris Finlay Ciaran Rafferty Natalie McFall Paul Campbell Rachael Kathleen Raymond Dunn Sarah Cromie On letuseatcake.blog Anthony and […]

Love Happens Here

5th – 28th July, 2017 City Hall, London An exhibition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. This exhibition recognised the historic struggle of the LGBTIQ movement and shares a range of perspectives on London’s LGBTIQ community and culture as it marked the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK. […]

Let Us Eat Cake (2017)

Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the freedom to be public, to just be who we are. We come out of the closet, face the rejection of society, face firing squads, just to love each other! Our difference, our otherness, our uniqueness can either paralyze or politicize us. DO […]

Photography and Collaboration: From Conceptual Art to Crowdsourcing by Daniel Palmer

by Daniel Palmer Bloomsbury, February 2017 Photography and Collaboration offers a fresh perspective on existing debates in art photography and on the act of photography in general. Unlike conventional accounts that celebrate individual photographers and their personal visions, this book investigates the idea that authorship in photography is often more complex and multiple than we […]

Photo50: Gravitas, curated by Christiane Monarchi

18th – 22nd January, 2017 London Art Fair Featuring the work of Madison Blackwood, Bronte Cordes, Sian Davey, Sophie Green, Frances Kearney,  Baptiste Lignel, Anthony Luvera, Melanie Manchot, Wendy McMurdo, Yvette Monahan, Spencer Murphy, Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert, and Abbie Trayler-Smith. ‘‘Gravitas’ refers to one of the core personal virtues taken by ancient Roman society as an […]

Engaged Urbanism: Cities & Methodologies edited by Ben Campkin and Ger Duizings

  Edited by Ben Campkin and Ger Duizings I.B. Tauris, 2016 ‘Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, […]

Elephants in the Room: A Symposium at The Photographers’ Gallery

10am – 8pm, 19th November, 2016 The Photographers’ Gallery A symposium bringing together different generations of artists, cultural theorists and activists to look at feminist issues in art practice. A deliberate departure from the conference format, Elephants in the Room took a more participatory and less hierarchical approach through offering a series of break-out discussion […]

Young People’s Guide to Self-Portraiture (2016)

In the summer of 2016, I collaborated with a group of eight young people aged 16-21 years to research self-portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. Out of this research they created the Young People’s Guide to Self-Portraiture as part of the NPG’s Heritage Lottery-funded project following the acquisition of Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s final self-portrait. Taking […]

Subject of Study: Collaboration in Research and Artistic Practice

12pm – 7pm, 17th November, 2016 Manchester School of Art / School of Arts, Languages and Cultures ‘The Subject of Study – Collaboration in Research and Artistic Practice’ explored research collaborations in academic and artistic practice. The conference opened with an afternoon of researcher lead discussion, exploring different forms of collaborative practice and relationships between the […]

Participatory Photography: A Practice Showcase, Brighton Photo Biennial 2016

11am – 12:30pm, 2nd October, 2016 University of Brighton Gallery Presentations and chaired panel discussion with artists discussing different approaches to participatory practice, showcasing a diverse range of Photoworks projects. Anthony Luvera reflects on Queer in Brighton , actor Sean Mahoney and photographer Ania Dabrowska talk about MPower, their collaborative project with young men for BPB16, […]

Street Photography and the Art of Capturing the Crowd

25th – 26th May, 2016 Royal Academy of Arts The depiction of everyday street life and capturing the energy of life on the street has pre-occupied artists for centuries. From Renoir’s evocative street scenes of late 19th century Parisian life to Lowry’s iconic views of crowds in industrial Yorkshire, the dynamic energy and movement of […]

Notes on Photography and Death: Mourning, Spectacle, Evidence

3rd December, 2015 The Photographers’ Gallery The Death Detectives was an event held at The Photographers’ Gallery on Thursday 3rd of December 2015, organised by Elizabeth Cotton, as part of the public programme for the exhibition Burden of Proof: The Construction of Visual Evidence curated by Diane Dufour. This event and a subsequent digital resource […]

Never Apologise

9th July, 2015 IC Visual Lab Featuring the work of Anthony Luvera, Stefan Ruiz, Sidnay Banks, and Zanele Muholi. Visual narratives play a part in constructing the roles we make for ourselves as well as those that are constructed for us. This group exhibition explored notions of identity, sexuality and how LGBT people are represented […]

‘In Conversation: Place and Revolution’, with Synthia Griffin of Tate Modern

Published by Open Engagement on the In Conversation: Place and Revolution Blog, edited by Gemma-Rose Turnbull 3 April 2015 In Conversation: Place and Revolution is a series of blog posts that put the place and context of socially engaged art at the fore. Beginning in March 2015 and continuing each week leading up to Open […]

Assembly (2012-2014)

Assembly was created in Brighton between 2012 and 2014, involving more than 50 participants, and commissioned by Brighton Photo Fringe. As part of the project, I initiated a partnership with Brighton Housing Trust. During the first year, I focused on building relationships with staff and individuals connected to two of their services: Phase One, a hostel, […]

Assembly, Brighton Photo Fringe

4th – 26th October, 2014 Phoenix Art Space Assembly by Anthony Luvera is an exhibition of work created over a twelve-month with people who have experienced homelessness living in Brighton. Assembly consists of a new series of Assisted Self-Portraits; photographs created by participants; sound recordings; an installation of research on homelessness support services across the […]

Look Again at The Photographers’ Gallery

22nd May, 2014 The Photographers’ Gallery Look Again, hosted by Anthony Luvera, invited an intimate group of participants to look intensively at a single photograph they were unfamiliar with and read it out-loud together. This looking group was focused on slowing down the way in which we as viewers look at images, bringing into question […]

Queer in Brighton edited by Anthony Luvera and Maria Jastrzebska

Edited by Anthony Luvera and Maria Jastrzebska, Queer in Brighton explores the untold stories and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans* people in Brighton & Hove, past and present. The culmination of intensive work by over 150 people who have come together to share stories, reminiscences, creative writing and photography, this publication is a […]

Not Going Shopping, newspaper

In February 2014 the Collaborative Portraits from not going shopping were exhibited as large-format posters in outdoor public spaces across Brighton & Hove. At the same time, 3,000 copies of the not going shopping newspaper were distributed free throughout the city.  

Not Going Shopping (Exhibition)

February 2014 Across Brighton & Hove In February 2014 Collaborative Portraits from not going shopping were exhibited as large-format posters in outdoor public spaces across Brighton & Hove.

Not Going Shopping (2013-2014)

In June 2013 I was invited to collaborate with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in Brighton to create work about being queer for Queer in Brighton. The invitation immediately captured my attention. While the first same sex weddings in March 2014 may be a great step forward for the rights of queer people in […]

‘Speaking Nearby: Anthony Luvera in Conversation with Chris Wright’, in Anthropology and Art Practice edited by Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright

Published in Anthropology and Art Practice Edited by Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright Bloomsbury, 2013   Anthony Luvera (AL): I first began working with people who have experienced being homeless around 2001. Since then I’ve worked with hundreds of people in cities and towns across the UK, including London, Colchester, and Belfast. Over this time […]

‘Queer Times’ for SuperMassiveBlackHole, Guest Edited by Anthony Luvera

Guest editor SMBHmag15 Issue 15, 2013 Featuring work by Ami Barnes, Darren Campion, Thomas Hellstrom, Dean Hollowood, Adelaide Ivánova, Patricia Karallis, Michael Koch, Paul Knight, Claudia Moroni, Momo Okabe, Mélanie Pottier, Ryan Riddington, Karolina Sobel, Tatiana Vinogradova, and Lee Wagstaff.   Queer Times “Being queer is not about a right to privacy; it is about the […]

‘Tools For Sharing: Wendy Ewald In Conversation With Anthony Luvera’ in Photoworks

Published by Photoworks November 2013   Anthony Luvera (AL): Was there a particular experience in your education or childhood that enabled you to see learning, teaching and participation as tools for your photographic practice? Wendy Ewald (WE): I think my interest in education evolved naturally from helping to rehabilitate my brother after he was hit […]

‘In My Skin: Michelle Sank In Conversation With Anthony Luvera’ in Photomonitor

Published by Photomonitor September 2013 Anthony Luvera (AL): For over a decade you have photographed children, adolescents and young adults. While you have addressed particular circumstances, experiences and themes – ranging from teenage pregnancy, ex-offender rehabilitation, to living in Belfast after The Troubles – underpinning your work appears to be a fascination with individuals going […]

Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography by Colin Graham

Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography by Colin Graham was published by Belfast Exposed in partnership with the MAC on the occasion of the exhibition Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography showing at Belfast Exposed and the MAC from 10 May to 7 July 2013. Since the 1980s Northern Ireland has produced a distinctive body of photographic […]

The World in London

July – September, 2012 The Photographers’ Gallery, and other outdoor sites The World in London presented portraits of Londoners by British and international photographers taken from 2009 – 2012. Each portrait shows a person or people from one of the 204 nations taking part in the London 2012 Games, accompanied by individual stories. Between July […]

The Photographer’s Story: Exhibition Review of Shaped by War’ by Anthony Luvera, in Source

Exhibition Review of Shaped by War: Photographs by Don McCullin at Imperial War Museum, London Published in Source Spring 2012, Issue 70 The ethical landscape of photojournalism is as contested as the terrain it depicts. Issues of agency, instrumentality, subjectivity, accuracy and voyeurism collide in debates about the practice of the photojournalist, the commissioning and […]

Residency (2006-2011)

2006-2011 Belfast Exposed Photography ‘I first travelled to Belfast in November 2006. By that time I had spent almost six years compiling photographs made by homeless people living in London. Finding myself in a position of guardian to a growing collection of negatives, photographs and ephemera created by over 250 people, I was uncertain as […]

‘A Rocky Boat: reflections on research, process and representation Margareta Kern and Anthony Luvera in conversation’ in Cities Methodologies Bucharest edited by Ger Duijzings, Simona Dumitriu and Aurora Kiraly

Published in Cities Methodologies Bucharest, 2010 Edited by Ger Duijzings, Simona Dumitriu and Aurora Kiraly   Anthony Luvera (AL): What a great recording device you’ve got here. Margareta Kern (MK): It’s really handy. I use it a lot in my work when I interview people. AL: Do you have a collection of sound recordings that […]

Elusive, curated by Sian Bonnell

8th February – 18th March, 2011 Camberwell Space Featuring the work of Suky Best, Karen Brett, Kathryn Faulkner, Anna Fox, Toby Glanville, Laura Guy, Fergus Heron, Jane Hilton, Juneau Projects, Uta Kogelsberger, Chrystel Lebas, Anthony Luvera, John Miles, Wendy McMurdo, Trish Morrissey, Heidi Morstang, Spencer Murphy, Magali Nougarede, Chino Otsuka, Helen Sear, Self Publish, Be […]

Photography & Participation at The Photographers’ Gallery

16th – 24th November, 2010 The Photographers’ Gallery Photography & Participation was a series of six talks held over two weeks organised by Anthony Luvera and Ben Judd that examined the differences and the connections between performance, participation and social interaction in photography that engages with social practices and communities. Mon 15 November, 19.00 Dr […]

Cities Methodologies Bucharest

28th October – 5th November, 2010 The National University of the Arts, Bucharest An exhibition of works from Residency and Prologue to Isha at The National University of Arts (UNA) in Bucharest, Romania, part of Cities Methodologies Bucharest curated by Aurora Kiraly and Simona Dumitriu.

‘Residency’ by Anthony Luvera, in Photographies

Published in Photographies Volume 3 Issue 2 September 2010 Special Issue: Photography, Archive and Memory Guest Editors: Karen Cross and Julia Peck   For almost ten years I have been compiling photographs made by people who have experienced being homeless. In 2006, after collecting around 10,000 photographs, negatives and ephemera created by over 250 people, […]

Cities Methodologies London

28th – 29th May, 2009 Slade Research Centre, UCL The first edition of Cities Methodologies was organised and curated by Ger Duijzings and John Aiken. The event comprised of an exhibition, a series of workshops and talks exploring innovative methodologies in urban research, with input from a variety of disciplines, but with a special emphasis on […]

‘Dad’s Clothes – André Penteado’ by Anthony Luvera, in Source

Published in Source Summer 2010, Issue 63   The use of photography to memorialise the death of a relative was widely practiced in the early history of the medium. Post-mortem portraits, documentation of funeral parties, images of grief-stricken mourners and photographic displays embellished with personal items such as a lock of hair or a piece […]

‘Fire Scene: Sarah Pickering In Conversation with Anthony Luvera’ in Hot Shoe

Published in Hot Shoe Apr-May 2009 Sarah Pickering’s photographs of the training grounds used by the UK law enforcement and emergency services for disaster provision are as much a view on the complex manufacture of British society as they are a depiction of the fabricated environments. The young British photographer first rose to attention upon […]

‘A Colonial Inception: Book Review of Photography and Australia’ by Anthony Luvera, in Source

Book review of Photography and Australia by Helen Ennis (Reaktion) Published in Source Autumn 2008, Issue 56   The charting of Australian photographic history is a largely under-developed project. While there has been a steady stream of survey exhibitions since white Australia’s bicentennial celebrations of 1988, prior to Helen Ennis’s Photography and Australia arguably only […]

‘Using Children’s Photographs’ by Anthony Luvera, in Source

Published in Source Spring 2008, Issue 54 Anthony Luvera examines a number of projects in which artists have used children’s photographs and the challenges that this work presents. When considering practices that use photographs made by other people, it is not enough to only consider what is in the image. It must be also asked, […]

Westminster (2007)

Photographs and Assisted Self-Portraits made with residents of King Georges Hostel Victoria. Steve Davis, Steve Eaton, Aaron Goosey, Pietro Minecci, Mark Ravenscroft, Steve Rogers Boult  

‘The Feminine Ideal: Exhibition Review of Being Beauteous’ by Anthony Luvera, in Source

Exhibition review of Being Beauteous at White Space Gallery, London Published in Source Summer 2007, Issue 51   Photography and beauty have always been slippery bedfellows. When William Henry Fox Talbot christened his invention the ‘calotype’ after ‘kalos’, the Greek word for beauty, he prophetically pointed to the symbiotic entanglement that would endure between the […]

1+1=3, Collaboration in Recent British Portraiture, curated by Susan Bright

20th April – 26th May, 2007 Australian Centre for Photography Featuring the work of Emma Critchley, Anna Fox, Sara Haq, Paul Jeff, Wiebke Leister, Anthony Luvera, Melanie Manchot, and Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. ‘This exhibition takes as its foundation the nature of collaboration. What exactly does collaboration mean and how does it manifest itself? […]

‘Photographs and Assisted Self-Portraits’ by Anthony Luvera, in Source

Published in Source, Issue 47 2006 Photographs I had never wanted to photograph homeless people before. I’d read the (de)constructive writings by photo critics on ‘others’, poverty and representation. I knew about the complexities of the find-a-bum school of photography trounced by Martha Rosler. So in December 2001, when it was put to me by […]

Prologue to Isha (2005)

Prologue to Isha is a six-minute DVD video work presented on a monitor with headphones. This work envelopes my interests in the machinations of the exchange between photographer and subject, through a revealing documentation of the preparations for a documentary interview with Isha, a woman living with chronic schizophrenia. The piece portrays a person with […]

Stories From Gilded Pavements

24th January – 31st March, 2005 Art on the Underground An exhibition of Photographs and Assisted Self-Portraits across 12 central London Tube stations: Charing Cross, Highbury & Islington, Kings Cross, Leicester Square, Liverpool Street, London Bridge, Marble Arch, Mile End, Oxford Circus, St Pauls, Stratford and Tottenham Court Road.

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