Mark

I am a qualified photography tutor with more than 15 years of experience teaching for a diverse range of schools colleges and adult education authorities. I have expereince of 1 to 1 tutorials on digital photography and can adapt my lessons to suit your needs.

I also have nearly 20 years working as a freelance documentary photographer and my work has won awards and been exhibited in several London Galleries. My passion is street photography and I have run several 1 day workshops for groups and individuals in vibrant Shoreditch. I have extensive experience workshops on manual camera settings. I always encourage my students to express themselves creatively as well as learning the technical aspects of photography.

Availability: Monday afternoons
Tuesday evening
Wednesday daytime
Thursday daytime
Friday afternoon
Sunday all day

Willing to travel: 10 miles

Experience: Photography Tutor
Tower Hamlets Idea Store Learning, London
September 2009 – Present
Contracted by Tower Hamlets (0.3 Salary) I teach units on the National Diploma in Photo-imaging Levels 2 & 3 as well as designing and running Beginners and Intermediate level 10 week long courses for digital photography and darkroom based media.

Photography Tutor
Adult Learning Lewisham, London
September 2013 – Present
I have successfully designed and run a 10 week “Get to know your DSLR” course for beginners as well as 2 five week courses; “Photography - Compact Cameras” and “Family learning – photography – digital camera”

Photography Practitioner/Tutor
NCS - The Challenge
July – October 2016
I was employed by NCS the Challenge as a Photography practitioner to run three day sessions teaching basic digital photography skills to a team of up to twelve 15 - 17 year olds. The Practitioner also leads two visits to a local community group(including care homes, youth clubs and homeless centres) so that the young people can use the skills they have learnt to interact with the people that they meet. Finally, the Practitioner works with the young people to design and deliver a showcase performance.

Imaging Partnership
March 2013 – Present
I run 6 – 10 week after-school camera clubs for primary and secondary schools in South London. I was also employed for 2 months to teach photography to A level students at Addey and Stanhope School in Lewisham, teaching them how to use DSLR cameras, introuding them to different genres of photography and guiding their ideas for there own projects.

Photography Tutor
Greenwich Community College, London
September 2005 – July 2011
Contracted through Protocol National to teach digital and darkroom based courses as well as running 3 summer schools in Documentary Photography.

Photography Tutor
Crossways Academy
January 2007 – July 2009
Contracted to teach darkroom printing and digital photography to Sixth Form students as part of an enrichment program.

Photography Tutor
Barnet Council
July 2006 - August 2009
Contracted to teach digital photography workshops and Summer Schools at Youth clubs. Students were taught basic skill in photography and learnt how to manipulate images using photoshop and were successful in gaining an AQA unit Award in digital photography

Photography Tutor
Stanmore College ;;;
May 2008 – July 2008
I was contracted through Protocol National to cover for an absent tutor for 3 months. This involved utoring of A2 and AS Level Photography Students. I guided them to ubmit their proposals for A2 Unit 6 outlining their objectives, aims and concepts. I assisted them with online and library based research, gave a series of lectures on different photographic genres and set them a practical assignment to document activities within the College


Freelance Tutoring – I also work on a freelance basis as a photography tuttor commissions, this year I have sucessfully run a 1 day workshops for the advertising company Universal

DBS Check: Yes