Mindfulness Photography Training

This course is designed to allow participants to partake in guided community-led photography training of “what’s underneath” beyond self-expression. We’ll be using photography to tap into understanding the self, vision, identity, and desires. While also gaining basic photography skills and visual literacy. It is designed for both beginners and art/culture enthusiasts. This course is both theoretical and practical with an opportunity to participate in exciting photo-walks around Cardiff. You do not need to have a camera to participate and there will be an opportunity to exhibit your work at the end of the program.

Facilitator’s Bio

Nelly Ating is a photojournalist and researcher who focuses on questions of identity, education, extremism, and migration. As a photojournalist, her work has been published in local dailies in Nigeria and legacy media such as the BBC and CNN. Her photographic work documenting the rise of Boko Haram terrorism between 2014 and 2020 in Northeast Nigeria shone a light on the aftermath of violent extremism. Ating has exhibited at galleries and photographic festivals in Africa, Europe, and the US, as well as judged and reviewed photography competitions such as African Women in Media (AWiM) and Ugandan Press Photo Awards. She is a member of Women Photograph, Black Women Photographers, African Women in Photography, the Journal Collective, and the African Database for Photojournalists run by the World Press Photo. She is currently a PhD candidate at Cardiff University researching the discourse of human rights through photography.

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