CANCELLED: Using Colour: Creative Gel Lighting in Studio Photography Workshop

Join us at our North Greenwich Studio for a vibrant, hands-on workshop celebrating the art of using colour in studio photography. Discover how creative lighting can transform your images and bring new energy to your visual storytelling.

Led by Milo Van Giap, you’ll dive into the expressive world of gel lighting through playful, collaborative, and practical exercises. Together, you’ll explore how colour shapes mood, space, and tonal shifts in creative ways.

Expect a Saturday morning full of experimentation, creativity, and inspiration to carry into your future shoots! 

🎟 Your ticket includes complimentary warm & soft drinks, plus a free takeaway mini set of coloured gels to keep exploring at home.

What to Expect

💡Studio Lighting with Gels: Learn how to use coloured gels on both your subject and backdrop, experimenting with different combinations to create striking, atmospheric effects.

🌈 Mix & Blend: Discover techniques for mixing colours and crafting ombre or gradient lighting, playing with contrast, colour harmony, and shadow play.

🎭 Mood Through Colour: Explore how different hues can suggest emotion and tone, helping you to create expressive images and enhancing your creative control.

📈 This workshop is tailored for intermediate photographers to join. All equipment provided; just bring your curiosity!

🥤Our complimentary prebiotic sodas are kindly sponsored by XOXO drinks.

About the Organisers

Milo Van Giap is a photographer and DoP based in London, UK. His work spans a variety of subjects, mainly through documentary, portraiture and fashion. Adept at experimenting and mixing both digital and analogue processes they can often be found side by side in his work. He is a keen observer of social spaces and the movement of light as ways to track and document change in our globalised world. He particularly enjoys the collaboration process with others when creating work with both peers and subjects. Social change is an important core to his interests and as such he participates in the mentorship of young people into the creative industries.

The Photography Foundation was created to provide pathways to professional photography for less advantaged young adults in London by offering education, practical experience, and routes to a career in the creative industries. The Photography Foundation acknowledges that commercial photography can be a stressful career and feel isolating at times. Our events are intended to promote wellbeing and the importance of making time for inspiration and creativity in your practice in order to maintain a sustainable career. Our six-month commercial photography Training Programme provides a supportive and inspiring environment where people aged 18-25 years old to take their professional photography skills to the next level, develop a commercially-focused portfolio tailored to their career goals, and grow their independent voice whilst gaining practical experience. More info about the training programme here.

👥 Please Note

• Our Public Programmes are aimed at anyone aged 16+. If you are an adult who wishes to join with someone younger than 16 years old, please contact us in advance at Events@thephotographyfoundation.org

🎟 Ticket Information

• Spaces are limited, if you can no longer attend, please request a refund for your ticket at least 48 hrs before the event via emailing us at Events@thephotographyfoundation.org

•If you request a ticket refund in less than 2 days before the scheduled event, you will be charged the full cost of the ticket, and you will not receive a refund.

• There is a small fee for this event, but if you feel unable to pay, please get in touch at Events@thephotographyfoundation.org as we may have bursary spaces available upon remaining availability.

📧 Accessibility

• If you have any accessibility requirements or questions please email Events@thephotographyfoundation.org

• Please note that there is lift access to our second floor studio & accessible WC facilities.

📸 Image credits @ThePhotographyFoundation

Milo Van Giap teaching in our North Greenwich studio

The Photography Foundation Building Entrance