Teaching & Creative Learning
At MTC Digital Creative, I offer dynamic, hands-on courses and workshops in photography, film, visual storytelling, creative writing, and poetry. My teaching integrates practice-based methods with critical reflection, helping learners develop their artistic voice while gaining technical and conceptual skills. Whether working with individuals, schools, organisations, or communities, I create tailored learning experiences that bridge creativity, theory, and experimentation.
Courses & Workshops
George Hayes | @george.s.hayes | Visual Storytelling (Photo Diaries) - Week Four
Photography & Film: Visual Storytelling in Practice
Explore the art of photography and film through composition, lighting, narrative, and experimentation. My courses encourage students to develop a personal visual language while mastering practical techniques in both digital and film photography, as well as experimental and documentary filmmaking.
Rooted in my own practice-based research, my teaching explores the intersection of image, movement, memory, and embodied storytelling. Drawing from my work in experimental film, performance, and visual theory, these courses offer participants a space to develop their own creative approaches while critically engaging with the medium.
Photography Course: A six-week program focused on creative exploration and technical mastery.
1-on-1 Photography Tutoring: Personalized guidance tailored to your artistic and technical goals.
Visual Storytelling Course: Workshops integrating creative writing, photography, film, comics, and art, designed to enhance your storytelling skills across various media.
Mini Film and Photography Theory Course: Three virtual sessions delving into emotive cinematography, the history of photography, and the role of soundscapes in film, aimed at expanding your theoretical understanding of visual media.
Photography Theory Course: A three-week course offering new material for all levels, exploring photography inspiration and experimental techniques.
Extended Photography Course: An all-new program for 2023, this course provides an in-depth exploration of photography, encouraging participants to experiment with techniques and find inspiration from various sources.
Eleanor Trenfield | Photography for Beginners | Portraits - Week Two
Collaborative & Bespoke Teaching
I have designed and led workshops, masterclasses, and tutoring sessions for schools, universities, community groups, and cultural organisations. My approach is flexible and adaptable, offering:
Bespoke workshops for individuals, schools, organizations, and community groups
Cross-disciplinary learning, integrating visual, written, and embodied practices
Access to exclusive online resources for enrolled participants
Kathryn Fitzgibbon | @kat_ebony | Photography for Beginners | Storytelling
Previous Teaching & Projects
I have taught and collaborated with institutions such as Caterham School, Westminster School, and Legal & General (financial services), as well as various arts and community organisations. My experience spans photography, creative writing, and film, always with a focus on experimentation, critical thinking, and artistic development.
Get In Touch
Interested in learning more? Whether you’re looking for one-on-one tutoring, a group workshop, or a tailored course, I’d love to hear from you.
All course resources are accessed by a password shared on the courses and 1 to 1 tutorials. This allows for tailored materials just for learners of the creative spaces.
To find out more about previous teaching - film projects, creative writing and photography.
Exhibition of previous creative courses.
Effectively tailoring teaching expertise to offer inspiring 1-1 tutoring and group teaching in Film and Photography.
Fun projects for Junior school age pupils
Supporting GCSE and A-Level pupils
1 day to week long Film Schools
Classes for all ages
Key Stage 2
Making Short Films
Key Stage 3
Taking Film Knowledge Further…
Key Stage 4
GCSE Level Skills
Key Stage 5
A-Level/BTEC Skills
Six One Hour Weekly Sessions
This course offers all new material from previous photography courses and is aimed at all levels. We will explore photography inspiration and experiment with techniques that are happening now. The sessions seek to offer pathways into what is happening now in the world of photography. The course explores 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 is packed with inspiration from photographers as well as a wealth of practical activities and tools to use within your own photography, which includes 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
Six One Hour Weekly Sessions
This course entwines art and nature to experience the wonders of wildlife and green spaces all around us in a more mindful way, this includes our gardens, city parks, woods, nature reserves and beyond. Nature will tangle and entwine throughout the six-week sessions in varying ways, as it speaks to Poetry, Creative Writing and Art. Yet, Poetry, Creative Writing and Art will also be explored beyond the themes of nature, to converse together with literary devices such as ekphrasis, in which a visual work of art is described in detail, how to structure narrative, holding readers, writing backwards, writing with joy whilst learning from British, Irish and Indigenous poetry and creative writing. The course will encompass LGBTQIA+ topics whilst decolonising, thinking with the power of creativity and nature collectively whilst having fun. All sessions will be full of inspiration from artists, poets and writers, as well as practical activities to try within and beyond, which includes online resources crafted especially for members of the course. The course is aimed at all those seeking to be more mindful in their everyday and looking for tools to release their own creativity. Each week, there is space for members to share thoughts and their own creativity and ask questions.
Week 1: Art and Nature – Part 1
Week 2: Art and Nature – Part 2
Week 3: Creative Writing
Week 3: Poetry
Week 4: Art and Ekphrasis
Week 5: Reflecting on interactions between nature and human beings
Week 6: Bringing together Art, Nature, Creative Writing and Poetry
Six One Hour Weekly Sessions
Behind the Scenes
This course is a fun way to look behind the scenes of members’ favourite TV shows, explore how documentaries are made, and jump into the diversity of film (BFI film, archival film, unconventional and experimental films, artist’s films, world cinema, black and queer cinema, climate emergency films and so beyond).
This course seeks to move alongside the fast-evolving world of moving image and offering tips on the best podcasts, cinemas, and streaming platforms, so that members’ have access to an unending universe of creativity.
Amongst the introduction and advanced knowledge to all things moving image, there will be interactive activities within the sessions and a wealth to take beyond. Learning filmic skills and techniques through collective engagement with moving image.
Week 1: What is Happening in TV and Moving Image Right Now
Week 2: Entering the World of Moving Image Through Directors. Practical Tips for Directing
Week 3: Behind the Scenes with Cinematography and Editing
Week 4: How to Navigate Film Festivals and Online Streaming
Week 5: Entering the World of Archival Film and British Cinema
Week 6: How are Documentaries Made. How to Make Your Own
Six One Hour Weekly Sessions
These sessions will explore photography through our smartphones to deconstruct the world around us, to see differently.
Across the sessions we will explore photography together through experimentation whilst picking techniques up along the way. We won’t be seeking to produce the ‘perfect’ photograph but to have fun whilst allowing this creative medium to navigate our spaces; where expression has no boundaries. I will also offer photography inspiration from past and contemporary photographers.
There will be opportunities to share your own work in the sessions and to be part of an online collective exhibition.
Week 1: Introduction to photography
Week 2: Lighting and Portraits
Week 3: Still Life
Week 4: Photo Diaries
Week 5: Editing
Week 6: Roundup
Six One Hour Weekly Sessions
These sessions will explore photography through our DSLR cameras to deconstruct the world around us, to see differently.
Across the sessions we will explore photography together through experimentation whilst picking techniques up along the way.
There will be opportunities to share your own work in the sessions and to be part of an online collective exhibition. This course is great for people looking to learn and advance their DSLR skills and expand from the beginners course.
Week One: Introduction into using your camera
Week Two: Out and About – Wildlife photography
Week Three: Landscape Photography
Week Four: Expanding portrait and photo diary knowledge with SLRs
Week Five: Delve deeper into Photoshop and Lightroom
Week Six: Get Creative
Three One Hourly Weekly Sessions
To expand and support the Beginners and Advanced technical courses and anyone with an interest in film and photography theory.
Week One: Emotive Cinematography
Week Two: History of photography and contemporary inspiration
Week Three: Soundscapes in Film and Essay Films
Five One Hour Weekly Sessions
Three 10 minute ‘How To’ videos from Marie Crick – 10 top Tips for Smartphone Photography, Film like David Fincher and Printmaking at Home
Week One: Introduction into a writer’s mindset (Writing)
Session Two: Storytelling and reimagining with David Fincher, A24 studio, TV programme Succession and more (Film)
Week Three: Visual Storytelling through Photography
Week Four: Writing workshop with a focus on storytelling through spoken word and podcasts
Week Five: Visual storytelling in Art – printmaking, papermaking, painting and more
Thinking with the Venice Biennale
Thinking with documenta fifteen 2022
Part 1
Thinking With Frieze London and London Art Exhibitions
Thinking With Manifesta 14 and Istanbul Biennial
Thinking with EVA International | Ireland’s Biennial