Let our camera obscura inform your studio set in this unique self-portrait photography workshop with photographic artist Gisela Torres.

Format:

The morning session will include an introduction to the camera obscura – its history and its uses by contemporary artists, followed by pinhole camera making. In the afternoon, participants will use the camera obscura interior as a mise-en-scène for a series of self-portraits and will conclude with storytelling by editing and sharing a selection of images.

Open to all, no prior experience required.

Equipment:

Participants are invited to use their smart phone or digital camera.

Biography:

Gisela Torres is a London-based artist and arts educator. Trained as a photographer and filmmaker her practice engages with self-portraiture, performance, printmaking, sculpture and emerging media technologies. Through her multi-media approaches and performative provocations she re-imagines personal multi-layered narratives that explore under-represented histories, female identity and mourning with otherworldly, playful and atmospheric intentions. As a freelance arts educator she delivers talks and workshops on exhibitions, visual literacy and photography to young people, adults and outreach communities.

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