Was really happy to contribute to this extraordinary resource on the brilliant Photo Pedagogy project exploring Photo Poetry. https://www.photopedagogy.com/photopoetry.html

The site is for teachers of photography who are happy to share aspects of their practice. The site is about the art (and science) of photography teaching. And what an incredible job Jon Nichols has done with the Photo Poetry section. Really it’s more comprehensive than my resources, which I developed for the Photographer’s Gallery and currently have a 100 slide powerpoint from I subject some students too. It really is worth a dig.

“The term 'photopoetry' and its various alternatives - photopoème, photoetry, photoverse, photo-graffiti etc. - attempts to describe an art form in which the poetry and photography are equally important and, often, directly and symbiotically related…. These correspondences between photography and poetry are brought into sharp relief by photopoetry - specific examples of published collaborations between photographers and poets (sometimes the same person). Writer and artist S. J. Fowler describes the challenge of exploring photopoetry as follows:

To begin, we must ask ourselves what these mediums actually are, at heart, and then what they can be together? Finally, what is the purpose of their combination? What can they do together? And why is it relatively rare to see a cohesive combination of the two - with fidelity to poetry that isn’t just text, or discourse, or opinion, and photography that isn’t just pictorial?
-- S. J. Fowler