Designed with both beginners and the more experienced photographers in mind, this hands-on course will give you a comprehensive understanding of the photographic image.

Course tutor

Arnold Borgerth is a photographer and teacher who has exhibited widely across South America and the UK. Arnold is a Photography Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London and works as a freelance photographer for the arts and design sector. Originally from Brazil and currently based in Margate, Arnold has been a practicing photographer since 1980.

Four-Week Photography: It's All
About Lighting | By Arnold Borgerth

Course details

Dates

Monday 11 May - Thursday 4 June 2026

Times

5:30 pM - 7:30 PM

Cohort size

Up to 8 places

Fees

£295

Location

The Margate School of Art

Duration

8 sessions

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Overview

This part time (2 evenings per week on Mondays and Thursdays)

course combines technical instruction with creative critique, providing students with the foundations to build or develop their photographic practice.

Relevant for both analog and digital image makers, this course will provide students with a deep understanding regarding what light and its relationship with the photographic image actually is. Lighting techniques (for both natural and artificial light sources) will be introduced helping the participants challenge and expand their creative and compositional skills.

Using a series of simple assignments, practical demonstrations, presentations and critiques, this course aims to expand your technical and conceptual understanding of what photography is, and how you can use it to reach the next level in image making.

This course is open to anyone: a newcomer or beginner interested in photography, or more experienced photographers wishing to deepen their practice.
By the end of the course, students will have:

Understanding of a range of lighting techniques

An introduction to editing methods

Benefitted from individual and group critique, challenging and developing their understanding of the medium

Created a portfolio
Students at The Margate School of Art benefit from:

A range of photographic facilities including continuous lights and flashes.

Individual and group feedback from highly qualified instructors

10% off at TMS’s cafe, ‘Coastal Art Coffee’
Ideally a photographic camera which allows full manual exposure control, but any camera (including mobile phones) will be accepted