Photography Workshops

Booking:
Learning Department
020 7312 2483 (Type Talk: 18001)
Fax: 020 7321 6662
education@npg.org.uk

National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE

 
Full booking information
Secondary programme 2009-10

Free Photography Workshops
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For students studying photography at Key Stage 4 to 5
Free workshops led by professional photographers

The National Portrait Gallery has an extensive permanent photographic portrait collection, as well as displaying temporary photographic exhibitions. The collection consists of original photographic images, many of which are derived from original negatives, dating from the 1840s to the present day. We offer a significant programme for the interpretation of study of photography including practical workshops.

Students work in our studio workshop space using large-format and digital cameras, using studio lighting to create their own portraits, taking on the roles of photographers, stylists and models.

All workshops last for one day: 10.30 to 15.00 with a break for lunch (not provided).

Maximum of 18 students per workshop.

Temporary Exhibition Specials

Responding to key photographs in these temporary exhibitions, students experiment with composition, pose, setting, props and lighting in a professional studio atmosphere. Students develop ideas, improve technical skills with formal elements, and make connections between their own outcomes and the artists' approach.

Beatles to Bowie: the 60s exposed

November 2009
Mon 16 / Tue 17 / Wed 18 / Thur 19 / Fri 20

ALL 10.30 - 15.00 with a break for lunch (not provided)

Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

January 2010
Mon 25 / Tues 26 / Wed 27 / Thurs 28 / Fri 29

ALL 10.30 - 15.00 with a break for lunch (not provided) 

Irving Penn Portraits

March 2010
Tues 9 / Wed 10 / Thur 11 / Fri 12

ALL 10.30-15.00 with a break for lunch (not provided)

Free CPD for Teachers

Beatles to Bowie: Photography Workshops for Teachers

21 October 2009
10.30 - 15.30

Inspired by Beatles to Bowie: The 60s exposed, teachers join our professional photographers to receive advice and training with scope to experiment and develop ideas, improve their technical skills with formal elements, and make connections between their own outcomes and the artists' approach.