Teaching and Facilitating
Supporting young and adult learners to craft their own visual stories is at the heart of what inspires Marie Theresa’s practice. She is a passionate Arts professional with over 20 years of experience in creative roles predominantly in the education sector, and additionally for corporate brands, charities and the Arts. Marie Theresa has been teaching advanced digital media and vocational technician-ship to adults and young learners on many different platforms and for a variety of institutions.
Photos by Nikolas Pelentritis on the Photography for Beginners Course.
Activating and facilitating collaborative spaces to create, experiment, listen to and think with images, moving images, visual arts and writing is at the heart of MTC Digital Creative.
Communal Projects with Schools
Devising a role - Marie Theresa notices ways to foster and build creativity and innovation, for example seeing a gap and the benefits of an in-house photographer, designer and videographer at Caterham School, she devised and pitched a business plan to stakeholders to create this role.
Photography
Weekly photography sessions for pupils to learn about digital photography techniques and take part in reportage style photography of school events.
Reportage photography
Photoshop challenges
Sport photography
BBC News Report
Photography and Art Teaching in Ukraine
Course Development - Marie Theresa has forged links between private and state schools, academies and youth centres, bringing students together to share ideas and collaborate on projects. This included working in partnership with a school in Ukraine across a three-year period, with A Level students who we supported to teach younger students in lessons in English, art and photography. All the students gave positive feedback about the different benefits of the experience, how this boosted their confidence and allowed them to evaluate their own and others’ work. (Image from Caterham School Instagram).
Darkroom Photography
Teaching darkroom techniques to pupils from 7 years to 18 years at Caterham School and visiting schools.
Photograms
Chemigrams
Multiple Exposure
Dodging and Burning
Adult Collaborators
Crafting courses from concept to delivery for corporate companies such as Legal and General, for independent businesses such as EDLA, Landscape Architecture and charities, communities and individuals.
The workshop spaces seek to move through non-hierarchical conversations and to the unexpected sociability of the unknown encounters ahead, to pose a speculative space to think with the temporalities of photography. To offer a meditative space to explore together.
Past courses include:
6 Weeks
Photography for Beginners and Advanced
Visual Storytelling
Extended Photography Course - all new for 2023
3 Weeks
Photography Theory
This course offered all new material from previous photography courses and was aimed at all levels. Members explored photography inspiration and experiment with techniques. The sessions sought to offer pathways into what is happening in the world of photography. The course explored photography histories and why they can help us today, learning from modern and contemporary photography, looking to the wonder of astronomy photography, inspiration from wildlife and travel photography, spotlighting key themes and photographers, understanding how to navigate photography spaces such as festivals, and ending with photography close to home with British and Irish photography. Each session was packed with inspiration from photographers as well as a wealth of practical activities and tools to be used within members’ own photography, which included online resources crafted especially for members of the course.
Week 1: How to Think with Histories of Photography
Week 2: Learning with Modern and Contemporary Photography
Week 3: Spotlight on Key Themes and Photographers
Week 4: Wildlife, Travel Photography and Astronomy
Week 5: What can we learn from Photography Festivals and Biennials
Week 6: British and Irish Photography and Round-up
Exhibition of previous creative courses.