Black History Month Photographer

‘Honouring Our Community’ will be celebrating the Black community and history in Camberwell & South London throughout October. We have invited alumni from our Community Exchanges programme to develop and deliver creative workshops in Camberwell Space, details below outline the workshops and dates.

We’re looking for someone to photograph all the workshops happening across the month, so please state you are available for the outlined dates in your cover letter. As this opportunity is part of Black History Month, we are specifically prioritising those who identify as being Black & mixed heritage, and we are also keen to hear from you if you are local to Camberwell College & South London. The Community Engagement team regularly work with and are looking for photographers, so this is a great opportunity to develop some of your portfolio and potential for more work with the team in the future.

Folasade’s Workshops:

• Weds 7^th October 10-12
• Monday 12^th October 10-12
• A 3^rd workshop is being proposed TBC

  Activity: Young people from local secondary schools in Southwark are invited to make contributions that honour a Black person who has positively impacted them, their local community or is an inspiration to them. Their contributions associated with honouring their person can either be: 

• A concertina zine
• A Poster
• A portrait through drawing, collage or mixed media
• Piece of writing e.g. poem, fact, letter, memory, quote, message, typographic)

Maya’s workshops:

• Wednesday 21^st October 6-8pm
• Monday 26^th October 10-1pm

Activity: What stories live around your kitchen table? What stories have been passed down, left untold, or are waiting for you to write them?

AMPLIFY is a creative writing workshop inspired by Black History Month, celebrating the rich, complex and powerful stories of London’s people and communities.

Together, we’ll uncover family stories, dig into community histories and explore the moments, memories and experiences that have shaped us. You might transform a personal experience into powerful poetry, memoir or a story or simply put words on the page for the first time.

What you’ll be doing
The successful photographer will be briefed ahead of workshops about what to capture, but we tend to look for 10-20 edited pictures that include acts of making, particularly of hands. For school workshops, photography permissions are sought ahead of time and you will be told who you can and cannot take pictures of. Photographers should feel part of the activity rather than separate from.

Applying

For applying, all we need is a cover letter outlining any experience relevant to this role you have, and why you are applying as well as a portfolio that feels relevant to this work. Please also state you are available to work on the dates provided, if you do not do this your application may not reach interview.

We will hold informal 20 minute interviews for shortlisted candidates, so that you have a chance to meet the team and potentially the facilitators.

Person Specification

• Photography skills and experience essential
• Editing capabilities
• Own camera
• Experience photographing community workshops is desirable, but not essential
• Good time management
• Able to be proactive and organised
• Open, warm, respectful
• Experience working with young people desirable but not essential
• Interest in community arts & engagement
• Local to south London desirable
• Identifies as Black or Mixed Heritage

It is important that everyone we work with shares the Community Engagement teams values and champions inclusivity, diversity and access to the arts.