Projects + Research

A behind the scenes look at Autograph's projects – exploring themes of race and representation, the history of photography, disability, community, inclusion and much more.

Current Projects

Family SEND Programme

2019 - ongoing
Our free artist-led programme for families who have a child/children with complex needs

Acts of Solidarity

2025 - 2028
Working with grassroots communities and artists with experiences of displacement

Visible Practice Residency

2024 – 2027
Supporting an Artist Teacher within and beyond the school environment

Visualising Disability:
Artist Development Programme

2024 - 2026

Digital Guide to Autograph's Exhibitions


Past Projects

Transforming Leadership

2020 - 23
Working with artists to break through barriers within the creative industries

Putting Ourselves in the Picture

May - Nov 2021
Sharing the unheard life stories of LGBTQ+ refugee women using photography

Dexter McLean: Artist Research Commission

2023 - 2024
A supported opportunity to undertake work in Kingston, Jamaica

Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography

2021 - 22
Artist commissioning project

Resilient Heritage

2018 - 2022
Increasing access to, and ensuring robust care of, Autograph's collection of photography

Art in Focus

August 2023 - August 2024
Sharing photographs in Autograph's collection from the Rock Against Racism movement

Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain

2021-2024
We have co-published the first book dedicated to this legacy

Thompson Hall Artist Monograph

2024

Seeing Differently: Learning Together Through Photographs

2023 - 2024
Connecting students with diverse visual media

Accumulate: Creative Futures

Jan - Mar 2024
Providing routes into creative employment for people affected by homelessness

Common Ground

2024
Introducing young people to photography through an artist-led programme

New Home: Our Resilience

Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Supporting women from refugee backgrounds to develop visual literacy skills

Amplify — Stranger in the Village: Afro European Matters

2021 - 2022
Artist commissioning project

Hackney Is Home

Sep 2020 - May 2021
Exploring experiences of home and migration in the London Borough of Hackney

EXPLORERS

2022 - 2024
Increasing visibility and representation of neurodivergent artists

Care | Contagion | Community — Self & Other

March 2020 - 2022
Artist commissioning project

Sense of Belonging

2021 - 2022
Opening up conversations about home and migration in the London Borough of Hackney

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