Workshop Photography
Capturing
Learning & Collaboration
Looking for a workshop photographer? I specialise in documenting workshops, training sessions, creative sessions, and small business events with a natural, documentary-style approach that captures genuine engagement, learning, and interaction.
From hands-on sessions and speaker-led workshops to community learning and team development days, I create imagery that reflects the energy of the room and the value of the experience.
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Workshops are full of meaningful moments — focused listening, collaboration, note-taking, and real conversations. Professional photography helps you showcase these moments across your website, social media, marketing materials, funding reports, and future event promotion.
For small businesses and organisations in Manchester, having a strong visual record of your workshops builds trust, credibility, and social proof.
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I regularly work with:
Small businesses and startups
Creative studios and coworking spaces
Community organisations
Charities and social enterprises
Corporate teams hosting training sessions
Event organisers and facilitators
Based in Greater Manchester, but I’m experienced in documenting workshops across venues, studios, offices, and community spaces up and down the country.
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My workshop photography focuses on authentic storytelling and atmosphere, including:
Natural working shots and participation
Speaker and facilitator moments
Audience engagement and interaction
Group discussions and collaboration
Close-up details (materials, notes, environment)
Venue and atmosphere imagery
These images are ideal for LinkedIn, websites, press features, newsletters, and future workshop promotion.
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High-resolution edited images
Web-optimised files for social media and websites
A mix of wide shots, candid moments, and detail imagery
Fast turnaround suitable for post-event marketing
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Workshop photography packages are available for:
Half-day workshops
Full-day workshops
Recurring workshop series
Monthly or quarterly content subscriptions
Custom quotes are available depending on duration, location, and usage.
Documentary & Unobtrusive
Workshops require a sensitive and observant approach.
I work quietly in the background, allowing sessions to flow naturally while capturing real, unposed moments. My experience in events, placemaking projects, and community-led sessions means I understand how to photograph people respectfully while highlighting the purpose and impact of the workshop.
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While I’m based in Greater Manchester, I regularly travel across the North West and throughout the UK for workshops, training sessions, and events. I’m happy to support clients locally and further afield depending on the project.
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Yes — many clients combine workshop documentation with team portraits or quick headshots.
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Absolutely. I work with small businesses, organisations, and teams hosting workshops across multiple locations, providing consistent, high-quality imagery for marketing, reports, and ongoing content needs.
Client: PLACED
at RHS Bridgewater
Shaping Spaces Together
Commissioned by PLACED to document a public engagement workshop at RHS Bridgewater, where attendees were invited to share ideas for a new Learning Discovery Space. Using collage, participants selected images of buildings, textures, shapes, and colours to visually explore what the space could become, creating a hands-on and inclusive environment for discussion and creativity.
With a fantastic team and a wide range of participants, the session was a thoughtful example of how workshops can support community-led design and placemaking. My role was to capture natural interactions, collaboration, and the creative process in an unobtrusive, documentary style — producing imagery suitable for reports, stakeholder presentations, and ongoing engagement materials.
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Client: Social
at Sister, Renold Innovation Hub, Manchester
B Corp Month Community Share 💬
To celebrate B Corp month, Manchester B Local’s organised a free, in-person event where local B Corps offered support to local volunteer and community social enterprises. Certified B Corps are businesses that balance purpose and profit. B Corp certification demonstrates ‘good business’ - a company that uses business as a force for good. Our B Corp members range from developers and planning consultants to graphic designers and HR specialists.
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Many of my Manchester clients book quarterly workshop coverage to keep their content fresh and aligned with their growth. Find out more
If you run workshops as part of your business — whether that’s coaching, training, wellbeing, creative learning, or professional development — consistent photography helps you: Attract future attendees, strengthen your brand presence, showcase your expertise and build a library of marketing content.
Client: UCLan | Feed | In Certain Places
at Duke Street Church, Richmond, Birmingham
Creative writing workshop with Ania Bas 👶
We don't have a problem with boobs at all. We have a problem with babies sucking on nipples, let's be honest here.*
Where have you fed your baby? How do you feel when you're feeding? What unsolicited advice have you been given while feeding? It was so wholesome to photograph such an inspiring room full of amazing mums with such beautiful babies sharing really important conversations!
*quote from Hollie McNish's brilliant book, Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
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Client: UCLan | Feed | In Certain Places
at Duke Street Church, Richmond, Birmingham
Play with your food, have a cuppa with Amelia Hawk 🫖
An invitation to explore comfort and nutrition in the humble mug of tea. While crafting infused milks and teas for big and small hands, participants explored their mental and physical needs from the warmth of a hot drink. Flavour combinations touched upon lactation, nutrition and mood.
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Client: Affinity Living
at Riverside, Manchester
Oi dumpling workshop 🥟
Celebrates the rich diversity of Asian cuisine, offering reinterpretations of classic dishes crafted with respect for tradition and quality ingredients.
A masterclass in the art of Dumpling Making with Oi Dumplings. Affinity Living residents received expert guidance on the incredible (and delicious) craft; trying their hand at creating their very own. With some to taste on the night and some to take away!
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Client: PLACED
at The University of Liverpool
PLACED Academy Holiday Programme ✂️
Hands-on creative design projects that introduce young people to planning, regeneration and architecture.
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Client: PLANT MCR
at Manchester Flower Festival
Paint a pebble, plant a seed, construct a seed bomb 🌻
The hands-on activities broke the busy rush of shoppers and brought inquisitive smiles to many faces.
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Client: CBRE | Embankment 100
at X+Why, Manchester
Showcasing the best microbrewery and craft beers 🍺
Sarah is a beer boss who has been dominating the industry for over ten hop-tastic years.
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Client: Sculpt & Sip
at SEESAW, Manchester
Workshops that are designed to be a sanctuary 🫶🏼
Creating a safe, peaceful environment where you can find solace, practice mindfulness, and escape from the chaos of our busy lives.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
The Magic of Botanical Colour 🌼
Exploring natural dyes, seasonal plants and connecting to nature through the magic of botanical colour.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
Plastic, yarn, or simply Plarn? 🧶
A traditional basket weaving and coiling workshop using waste and recycled materials.
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Client: Sculpt & Sip
at The Alan, Manchester
Cosy and creative pre-drinks 🍷
Unleash your inner artist as you immerse yourself in an evening filled with inspiration, fun, and artistic expression.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
Painting workshop with G. Mori Burton 🖌️
Concentrating on positive and negative space, the application of colour with a limited palette, and creating movement and rhythm within the confines of the canvas.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
Make a mug workshop with Fiona Beattie ☕️
Learning hand-building techniques, rolling slabs of clay, creating textures, underglazes, and decorating with coloured slip.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
Lino Printing Workshop with Paul Simm 🪚
A taster into letter painting and inspiration into this art form. Paul Simm aims to make the art world more inclusive and get people to see how it's a great tool to destress, focus, and eradicate some of the white noise that surrounds us in our daily lives.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
Stool making workshop with Easy Peel 🪚
Walk in empty-handed and walk away with your very own hand-crafted stool. Participants learnt some basic woodworking techniques and found their way around a selection of hand tools and much more.
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Client: Merseyway Workshop
at Merseyway Workshop, Stockport
Floral Workshop with Charlotte Smithson 🌸
Slow down, relax, and reconnect with nature through creativity. Enjoying the simplicity of observing and making marks in response to snippets from nature. Immersing into the creative process and the wellbeing benefits; no pressure to share or be critiqued for what you create.
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Client: Forage Box
at Dunham Town, Cheshire
Always wild, always sustainable, and always delicious 🍄
Workshops that reconnect people with nature through food, focusing on the 4 'F's of Foraging: Fungi, Fruit, Flowers, and Foliage. Slow down the pace of modern life, meet new people, and immerse yourself in a soul-nourishing activity.