PCT100 Creators: Photographing Artefacts
Learn professional lighting and composition techniques and discover new ways of seeing everyday objects and museum collections with Kevin Lawrence.
As part of the Powell-Cotton Trust’s centenary celebrations, we’re inviting our local communities to help connect the museum’s past, present and future via a series of artist-led creative workshops throughout the summer.
From photography and film to screen printing and poetry writing, these sessions offer the chance to respond creatively to what you discover in the museum and its collections. Your work will then form part of a special community exhibition opening in October 2026.
Photographing Artefacts Workshop
Join Margate-based photographer and cinematographer Kevin Lawrence for a hands-on workshop exploring the art of photographing objects and artefacts.
Learn how lighting, composition and camera techniques can completely transform how we see everyday objects and museum collections.
Using a live camera feed projected for the whole group, you’ll see professional techniques demonstrated in real time before having a chance to experiment yourself.
Perfect for photography students, aspiring photographers and anyone curious about image-making.
Date and Times:
Thursday 6 August
2pm – 4pm (times subject to change)
Workshop included with your standard admission ticket. Simply book tickets for Thursday 6 August to take part.
About Kevin Lawrence
Kevin Lawrence is a professional visual storyteller, photographer and cinematographer based in Margate. Originally from Chicago, he cultivated his early visual arts background studying painting and drawing before refining his camera work and lighting skills in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
His background spans multiple facets of visual media, including his tenure as Director of Photography at A+C Studios. Operating out of East Kent, he specialises in capturing highly stylised, cinematic, and reality-defying photography that challenges how we see the everyday world.
Kevin’s work explores the intersection of light, material and perception – themes that run through all his creative practice. In this workshop, he invites participants to experience first hand how light becomes a creative material in its own right.
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