Photographer Jody Haines will help you create an assisted self-portrait within a studio setting.

In this self-portrait photography workshop, participants create their own digital self-portrait based on professional guidance. This practical session is hands-on, where photographer and curator Jody Haines will help you create an assisted self-portrait within a studio setting. Jody will guide you through making your image by helping you explore different lighting and visual language methods within the photography frame. You will then create an assisted self-portrait, designing your moment of 'Refusal/Futurity,' drawing on the titular theme of Haines' current exhibition at Platform Arts. This workshop is perfect for anyone wanting to not only have a self-portrait image at the end of the session but to learn new skills to elevate the quality of their self-led portraiture and photography.

What to bring: Phone camera for experimenting with light, colours and angles. Small Props (if you want) – clothing, materials, personal tokens etc. things that help you visualise your Refusal and Futurity — what are you refusing and how do you want to be seen?

Places are limited to eight, so be sure to book early to secure your spot.

What is an assisted self-portrait? Jody will work with you and look after the equipment and technical aspects of the image, while you have control over the shutter remote, you make your image.

Facilities

Non Smoking
Public Toilet

Other

Free Wifi

Accessibility

Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)