Beginning in March 2026, Laura El-Tantawy will be leading a new four-month hybrid Studio Lab shaped by Brighton’s energy and its identity as a city on the edge.
The course takes place across four in-person weekends during March-June 2026, 10am – 6pm Saturday & Sunday: 7-8 March, 11-12 April, 2-3 May, 6-7 June at POST, Second Floor, Industrial House, Conway Street, BN3 3LW.
Enquiries Now Open – [email protected]
Brighton has a way of holding its edges. The constant pull between land and sea, calm and storm, the familiar and the unruly. It’s a place that shape-shifts with the light, a city that invites you to stand inside your own questions. This restless, generous energy is at the heart of the next edition of It’s Personal.
Brighton is the anchor: a place where land meets sea, calm meets storm, but the work you make does not need to be created in Brighton. The city serves as a catalyst: a way of thinking about place, tension, belonging and the stories that emerge from living between states. You can work from wherever you are. The Lab invites you to let Brighton’s sensibilities sharpen your own way of seeing.
The programme runs primarily online, but will gather for four in-person weekends at POST. These weekends are immersive: you’ll have access to the darkroom, the studio and the building’s dynamic creative atmosphere. You’ll use these spaces for a series of guided exercises: working with light, sequencing, materiality and gesture, encouraging you to experiment, take risks and push your work into new territory.
Across the Lab, you’ll develop a project with close guidance from Laura, supported by contributions from Brighton-based artists and creatives who will share their own approaches to place and narrative.
The programme culminates in a digital publication and a collective exhibition at POST, offering a space for your work to breathe, connect and be seen.
For more information and if you feel called to be part of this journey, enquiries are now open. Email [email protected].
Laura El-Tantawy is an award-winning British–Egyptian documentary photographer, book maker and educator whose work explores the human condition through themes of home, belonging and place. Drawing on a life lived between cultures, her practice weaves social and environmental concerns into lyrical visual narratives across photography, film and sound.
