{"title": "Develop | In Practice: Building your portfolio", "start": "2026-11-14T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Photographers' Gallery", "address": "Ramillies Street 16-18, W1F 7LW London", "price": "Free, booking essential & places limited", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A practical, informal session for 18-24 year olds on building a photography portfolio. It is led by London-based photographer, director and mentor James Pearson-Howes, who has over 20 years in the industry shooting for Nike, Adidas, Apple and Vogue. He shares lessons from his career, including what makes work stand out, how to approach clients and how to deal with rejection, self-doubt and creative blocks. 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It is led by Eric Aydin-Barberini, a visual artist and commercial image maker with nearly a decade of experience whose clients include Spotify, Ray-Ban, Red Bull and LEGO. The session covers a holistic approach to portfolio building, pitching with a clear target, and actions towards your dream opportunity, and is for visual artists aged 18-30 from Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest. 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Using cinematic lighting, posing and framing, the photographers invite viewers to imagine stories, while some subjects turn the session into a performance of its own.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/photographers-make-their-own-movies-114199/", "official_url": "https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agenda/__trashed-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/36d9088b8563a310111b04700937434f3af9a59544d2ae1a4daa2c0e70457556-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Seeing Storehouse: An Analogue Photography Workshop", "start": "2026-11-14T11:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-14T14:30:00Z", "place": "V&A East Storehouse", "address": "2 Parkes Street, E20 3AX London", "price": "£73.00", "price_from": "73.00", "price_to": "73.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/film-photography"], "description": "A hands-on analogue photography workshop in which participants explore the V&A East Storehouse and its surrounding architecture with a 35mm camera loaded with black-and-white film. It is led by photographer Eddie Otchere, known for his portraits of 1990s and early 2000s musicians, who shares his approach to seeing and photographing the built environment. Participants photograph the Storehouse's displays, including the Kaufmann Office Suite and the Robin Hood Gardens display, then develop their film and review the images with him, leaving with their film and a digital contact sheet. 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