Celebrating our first four workshops!

30 Jun

As our first few children and family workshops have gone so well, we thought it about time to share some of the incredible work that’s been made by our participants in these sessions. With a focus on the process of setting up and creating images, rather than the more technical aspects of photography, our workshops happen once a month. To register interest in future sessions - visit our Workshops/Event page.

Gravity, with Guy Bolangoro

`From Gravity, a workshop with Guy Bolangaro. Image by workshop participant.`

This year’s program kicked off with a pilot-workshop by the brilliant Guy Bolongaro, whose method of throwing objects in front of his camera and freezing them with his flash was well received by the young participants!

Inspired by Guy’s book Gravity Begins At Home, the children had the chance to take portaits of each other, with the addition of objects that they’d brought in themselves flying in front of the lens!

There was a second part to the workshop which involved cutting out different shapes from the photos taken in the first session to create new, even more surreal images!

Beside the Sea, with Clarisse D’arcimoles

We were super excited when the highly creative photographer and set-designer Clarisse D’arcimoles suggested a picnic themed workshop on the beach in front of Picnic HQ in St Leonards!

Utilising her passion for creating interesting and quirky scenes, often inspired by archival imagery, the workshop involved setting up 4 picnics themed as Funky, Seaside, Jubilee and Tropical and photographing them in different ways.

A family workshop, some of the ways the participants were encouraged to photograph the picnics including from close-up and far away, staged with people in, still-lives, messy, abstract and much more! The photographs produced were a riot of colour, and a true celebration of picnics in all their glory!

Pic n Mix, with Maisie Cousins

We held our third workshop with the brilliant Maisie Cousins at Hastings Pocket Park, a wonderful local grass-roots community garden.

Partnering with The Refugee Buddy Project, the workshop took place as part of Refugee Week 2022, and was loosely based around this year’s theme of healing - as nature and community spaces truly are.

Aged between 4 and 15, the participants of the workshop got involved in creating Maisie Cousin’s style photographs, with old fruit, jelly sweets, trays of coloured paint, toys and the garden’s mini-beasts!

It was truly wonderful seeing the children use “big” cameras for the first time, and explore the garden in their own unique ways.

For the second session, we returned to the Pocket Park to create collaged posters from the photos taken in the first session. The children were delighted to see their photos in print and cut them up to create entirely new works on paper.

A special thanks to Billie, Rebecca, Suze and Elysia for co-facilitating this workshop with Maisie and Picnic!