Pedagogy 2025
Abstract
@Landings_Collective is an expression of the collaborative ethos underpinning peer-led research clusters within Falmouth University’s online MA Photography course. A place where creative risk, the notion of play, experimentation, dialogue, and the sustained interrogation of the photographic practice are integral to the continued progression of creatively subjective imagery. The collective exists within a culture of mutual support, shared enquiry, and a democratically led process that seeks to unify multiple photographic practices. The resulting online showcase and physical exhibition displayed evolving work from a diverse range of worldwide practitioners, informed by critical engagement with themes that were both relevant and meaningful in output. Using defined research clusters to initiate discussion, the process allows merging of themes and ideas through a curatorial process culminating in a salon-style gallery hang. The resulting collaborative experience delivered contact with practices that are intellectually rigorous, visually compelling, and pushed the boundaries of creatively subjective imagery risk. With mobile technology and AI creating anxiety within creative communities as well as disrupting creative institutions, Landings delivers an experience that is visceral, human, and fundamentally about shared creative dialogue through peer interaction. Landings combines critical observations, disseminated discussions, and visual analysis to amplify the humanity of creativity. The three student co-curators of Landings will practically share / reflect on thier experience of the process that took them and thier peer group from Instagram to a physical gallery show with professional marketing materials and a live online event including artist interviews and critical analytical debate among a global audience.
Dr Steph Cosgrove is a Senior Lecturer on MA Photography. She previously worked as an editorial photographer and for charitable organisations, from Edinburgh to Morocco and New York to Siberia. Her research interests centre around the socio-cultural nature and status of the photograph and the subsequent implications of this for both formal and community education. She is the Academic Lead for the Instagram exhibition of Landings
Georgia Metaxas has worked commercially in addition to which she has led a number of community projects with organisations, museums and galleries such as ArtReach, East London NHS Foundation Trust, The Jewish Museum of Australia, Photoworks and the V&A. Portraiture is core to her practice, through which she examines cultural and social rituals. She is interested in the tension between ‘artistic’ intent and documentary practice, which is where her work sits. She is the Academic Lead for the physical exhibition of Landings;
Gail Ashton, Alistair Craine and Ian Blyth are MA Photography students and are the curators of Landings
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday 19th November, 2025