Camerawork was a journal of the politics of photography. It was designed as a forum for analysis, critique, theory & information in order to provide the basis for using photography within socialist and feminist practices and to develop and encourage socialist strategies within the politics of representation.

Issue 4 - Quality of Life, Children Photographed, Black Stereotyping.

Issue 5 - Barry Lane, Bill Gaskins, Bert Hardy and Tom Hopkinson, Dave Hoffman, Frank Webster, Terry Dennett, Stuart Hood, Ed Barber.

Issue 10 – July 1978: John Berger, Jean Mohr, Bill Jay Letter, Danny Lyon Interviewed, DIY Exhibitions.

Issue 15 – September 1979: Larry Herman, Mark Haworth-Booth, Jenny Matthews, John A Walker, Judith Rugg, Images of Disabled People.

Issue 16 – November 1979: Manchester Studies Archive, Nicaragua in the News, Japanese Photography reviewed, Camera Obscura, Camerawork 8 & the Political Photographer.

Issue 17 – January/February 1980: The Fashion Spread, Blair Peach – No Cover Up, Matchgirls’ Strike – Labour History Museum, Pictures from Windscale, Postcards, Photography & the Law.

Issue 18 – March 1980: Still Images on Television, Squatting in the News, Porn; Law; Politics, Marketing the Medium, The Fight to Work – the Steel Strike.

Issue 20 – December 1980: Zimbabwe – Managing History, Immigrant Women, Cover Women, Political Photomontage: Heartfield to Staeck, Portraits –Ways of Taking.

Issue 21 - 1981: Representing the Disabled, Gaining Momentum – Eight Women Photograph Women, Photography in Campaign.

Issue 22 - 1981: Women & Documentary Photography in Northern Ireland, Resisting Narita Airport, Policing Photography, Reporting the New Cross March, After Brixton, A Women’s Archive, Teaching & Using Photography, El Salvador, Cameras as Convivial Tools.

Issue 23 – December 1981: Reporting Back on Ireland.

Issue 24 – March 1982: Photography & Graphic Design, Towards a Feminist Erotica, Bangladesh, People’s March for Jobs, Montage.

Issue 25 - Fragmentation, Sexuality and Images, Homo Erotica, Black Culture, German Montage.

Issue 26 – April 1983: Models of Vision, New Technologies.

Issue 27 - Gallery Special Issue El Salvador.

Issue 29 - Winter 1983/84: Images of the Left, McClaren on Cable, Photomontage, Stuart Hall, Video.

Issue 30 – Spring 1984: Black Culture, Pictures of Women, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Pop Videos, Images of War.

Issue 31 – Spring 1985: Food: images and politics, Feeding the First World, Stimulating the appetite, Documenting the miners, International Women’s Day.

Issue 32 – Summer 1985: Science and Technology, Scientific Frameworks, Technology at Work, Post Modernism, Women Behind the Lens.

Gallery Special Issue Our Space in Britain.