Portrait Photo Workshop for Creatives, Artists, Influencers (Savile Row)

✅ Perfect for you if you're:

• Tired of DIY selfies that don’t capture your vibe
• Looking for photography + lighting tips you can actually use
• Hoping to collaborate and create content with like-minded people
• Wanting to tell your friends: “Sorry, I’m busy during lunch — doing a workshop with an artist who photographed Gigi and Bella Hadid” 😉
• Tailored for artist, model, musician, chef, influencer, or any other creatives, but all are welcome

🎯 Theme of This Workshop: Each workshop has a unique theme. The theme for this workshop is urban portraits.

🗓️ WHEN & WHERE

📍 Location: Savile Row, Mayfair
🕒 Date & Time: 4th Wednesday of every month, 12:30–1:30 PM
(Limited to 5 participants – book early!)

In case of rain, an indoor location will be provided. Details sent after booking.

Looking for another date or location?
Also held: 2nd Sunday @ Regent’s Park, 12:30–1:30 PM
1:1, corporate, and bespoke sessions available – email MFreddy.studio@gmail.com

📷 What to Expect (60-minute session)

🔹 15 min – Photography Basics

Tailored exercises based on your experience level:

• Location scouting
• Lighting (natural & external)
• Framing + angles
• Working with distance & background
• Ethics and credits

🔹 30 min – Themed Photo Practice

• Work in pairs or groups to photograph each other
• Selfies welcome—but a tripod or selfie stick is encouraged
• Photo reviews: what's working, what's not
• Bringing a friend? Great! Just make sure each of you has a ticket.

Optional demo:
M. Freddy will take a Polaroid portrait of you. You'll get a digital scan (for social media use, with credits)

🔹 15 min – Q&A + Exchanges

• Open chats and networking time

📱 What to Bring

• Your phone (fully charged!)
• Some photography lights provided but feel free to bring the equipment you normally use as well as any props you would like to be photographed with

⚠️ To ensure everyone has access to their photos by the end of the session, all participants are asked to photograph with their phones only. Want to use a DSLR or mirrorless camera? Sign up with a friend who’s using one too, and you can coordinate image exchanges after. Do make sure each of you have your own ticket!

M. Freddy

I moved from New York to London not too long ago. After my book tour came to a close, I decided I wanted to go back to my contemporary art practice part-time. I have had an electic career: in tech and research, at the United Nations, but I was also a fashion week photographer at one point. I hold a B.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design, and an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University. I was a Departmental Visiting Student at the University of Oxford as well. Photography is a lot of fun! Nowadays I focus on polaroids, but the principles of photography apply no matter what you use to photograph with. I also co-organize the Instant Film as Contemporary Art Monthly Series, which is a free online community-building event that features renown guest speakers.

• "Your artworks are gems" Marguerite Van Cook, Ph.D., Musician who opened for The Clash and gallerist who exhibited Sol LeWitt and David Wojnarowicz
• "[A]n artist unafraid to deal with massive complexities" James Romberger, East Village artist with works in collections such as the Met in New York
  
  

Bio: https://www.mfreddy.com/info

Photography archive: https://www.mfreddy.com/photographs

Why polaroids: https://www.visible-mag.com/p/why-polaroids

Email: MFreddy.studio@gmail.com

If you would like to sponsor a workshop e.g. food and drinks, to be included as part of the photoshoot, or advertise your event space by hosting a portrait photography workshop there, please email MFreddy.studio@gmail.com.