Photography workshops

Photography Workshops
Introductory Monthly - Photography Workshops may include topics such as,
- Basic Introduction into cameras and photography
- Introduction to Cameras understanding how cameras work and modes
of a camera
- Choosing the right equipment for job,
- How to create an eye-catching shot using composition.
- Learn how to control, Colour balance, Depth of Field, movement,
- Get critic on your work.Would you, like to learn about basic techniques that can be applied to many
subjects including landscape, people and still life.
Then please book and come along to find out more.Karen Mathison graduated from Blackburn College in 2017 with a First-
Class BA Hons degree from Lancaster University in Photographic Media. In
2018 she was diagnosed with womb cancer but still managed to complete
her PGCE the same year and completed her Photography MA with
Distinction from the University of Central Lancashire in 2019.Mathison has been a freelance photographer since 2009 having worked for
clients such as Nigel Haworth, Coop Foods, Dulux Paints, Wicks and private
clients, alongside previously lecturing at Blackburn College from 2018
2022. She has had artist commissions also from Arts Council England
including via Kick Down the Barriers. Although a Freelance photographer,
her personal practice is centred around documentary photography, including
the representation and the familiar of everyday individuals, communities and
places, reflecting on society from varying points including change and loss.
She is interested in the vestige of human life and space, recording images
around the Anthropocene, social housing, gentrification, human
sociocultural identity, gender and representation. Although an accomplished
freelance photographer, she likes to experiment, building and adapting her
equipment to enable her to mix and produce hybrid analogue and digital
works.
She likes to collaborate with individuals & communities in terms of
representation and place, questioning how co-authorship and produced
photography, creates greater narratives and representations of our shared
society and place.Previous Exhibitions
Prism Gallery, Blackburn 2018.
PR1 Gallery, Preston - 2019
Festival of Making Industrial Exhibition - 2019
D- Contemporary Gallery, Mayfair, London 2019.
Kick Down the Barriers, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery - 2020