Max 14 participants per group

Ways of Being experiences take The Camera Work’s proven methods of success in its longer term community projects and condense them into a single full day of participatory, creative, cognitive and practical hands on interaction.

Participants create, make and share story, learn to engage with their creative and visual self, to ‘look again’ and ‘be’ in the everyday world. We disconnect from digital technology and speed, practice Slow Photography and work with the abundance of storytelling material within and around us.

We will compose a story, create an aesthetic and work wth tactile analogue film equipment, before thoughtfully editing our work into a compelling visual narrative that connects and communicates a singular vision. A group pop-up exhibition is then co-created and curated by the participants which they get to take home at the end of the day.

Through this process we’ll be problem solving the whole way while using our creative vision to negotiate those problems and turn them into resources. We’ll also work on and develop the fundamental skills and practices that illuminate what we know by ‘showing’ what we know in the work.

We will see what is often hiding in plain sight, creatively embrace limitations and own our mistakes and victories. There is no command Z in this experience, just acceptance of what we create here is our best self and we don’t delete that. We celebrate that.

We discover ways of being in the world through seeing and experiencing things from multitudes of perspectives and attitudes. In doing so the world becomes bigger and brighter and we become more connected to it. And those living in it.

When we learn to tap into our creative and visual self we see beauty in the mundane, we become curious, we play with story, colour, shape, line, light and shadow. We get to play with things that are always there around, inside and between us. We become children again.

Everything is illuminated.

And the only thing we stand to lose is boredom.

Ways of Being - Full Day Fee. £1,750

Our Ethos on CSR Days

There are numerous ways to spend time on CSR days and some of those involve a more entertainment bent, with time used up in activity rather than investing in it.

The Camera Work does not operate in that space. We take time and money seriously and only do work we believe in. Our work is ethical, moral and transformative to those involved both directly and indirectly. We create experiences that are carried outside of the immediate attendee’s physical space and temporal limits.

We understand these days require investment of time and money and they absolutely should have purpose. By ensuring purpose we mean to have that investment returned to the corporation, the participants, the wider community and social world. We’ll do something meaningful and leave a mark

That’s the whole point is it not ?