Join us for this beginner-friendly &Friends photography workshop, designed to help deepen your personal storytelling through image-making!
“Slop Therapy” is a photography workshop for anyone who wants to take pictures with more intention, curiosity, and connection. In a world where images are losing meaning, this session invites you to slow down and explore what your photos are really saying about a place, a feeling, or even yourself.
This event will be led by Edward Sogunro; a multidisciplinary creative who is versatile in mixed media. Edward is experienced in directing concept based projects from scratch and has a keen eye for composition and layout.
Using a three-step process: React, Find Meaning, and Reflection, we’ll guide you through a series of short creative exercises, group reflections and photo prompts to deepen your relationship with image-making.
Whether you’re wanting to develop your personal storytelling, seeking creative inspiration, or simply a way to look at the world differently, this workshop is for you.
This is not about taking the perfect photo – it’s about seeing more in the ones you take.
In this interactive workshop, you’ll explore:
- How to respond instinctively to the world around you
- How to wait and sit with an image before assigning meaning
- How photos can become meditative, reflective tools
- How to use photography to express stories and emotion
Participant Information
- This event is open to all levels, and will be carried out over 3 hours
- Phone cameras preferred (or any camera with a screen)
- Please bring with you a charged phone, a journal or notes app, and curiosity!
Please note, in order to attend this event you must be aged 18-30 and currently live in one of the following four boroughs: Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest.
&Friends, an offshoot of our Freelance Exchange programme, is a series of events, workshops and masterclasses run by our Good Growth Hub alumni. It welcomes east London based creative freelancers the opportunity to develop and facilitate their own workshops focused on a creative practice or discipline and get paid for it.
If you have an idea for a workshop or event that you'd like to host and interested in facilitating your own &Friends event, drop Leila a line via [email protected]
Further information
This event will take place at the Good Growth Hub located in Hackney Wick on the Olympic Park. Read our visitor information.
Please note these sessions are fully funded and free to attend for free for young people from Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest aged 18-30.
We want everyone to be able to take part in this event. If you have any requirements that will enable you to access the session, please get in touch with us at [email protected]
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How to Apply
To book your free place, visit our website: https://goodgrowthhub.org.uk/events/slop-therapy-photography-may2025
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