TRAINING
Making photography and video simple, fun and engaging.
Helping teams and communities to frame their own narratives with confidence.
Site Stories
Photo & Video Training for Site Teams
For organisations with nature, clean energy, or construction sites.
A simple, hands-on training that helps people working on-site to take better pictures and videos with their phones, so comms teams have consistent, usable images and video for socials.
Can be delivered in person or remotely.
Follow-up support is available to help participants embed the knowledge and support them day-to-day.
Training includes:
Basic lighting & composition
How to make a good portrait
Audio recording and simple video camera techniques
Capture engaging images of people at work, meetings or during site visit
“Our on-site teams have definitely benefited from photography and video training by Jonathan, helping us create our own social media content”
Jill Wotherspoon
Head of Marketing at Nattergal
Storytelling for Humanity
Photography, Video, Story, Ethics.
For charities, humanitarian and development organisations working with local communities.
Helping teams. local partners, stakeholders and local people to improve their photography, video and storytelling.
Training Covers:
Use of your organisation’s images as learning materials
Camera, lighting, composition, timing
Key shots: portraiture, documentary style, general view
Storytelling, ethics, consent, and captions
Editing and transmitting images
Exercises to build confidence, and encourage participants to see the world in a new way.
“Jonathan developed and delivered a mobile photography training for UNICEF Ghana. It was a fantastic experience as I found Jonathan to be creative, very flexible and responsive to our needs. I hope to continue the relationship. Highly recommended!
Lely Djuhari
Advocacy Capacity Building Manager, UNICEF.
Mindful Photography
Notice, Play, Create
For creative team-building, exploration, offsites, and individuals
A playful photographic adventure, helping participants to be more present, creative, and connected.
We use photography as a way to become more aware of our surroundings and explore and develop our creativity.
This is a lighthearted experience, which is flexible and can be adapted to different situations and needs. but with potential to take people on quite a deep inner journey if they choose. There are subtle invitations to be present with how we are feeling and be kind to ourselves.
It can be centred around urban street photography, nature exploration or inside.
Jonathan’s approach is fantastic and he has taught us a range of easy-to -follow steps to improve our photography and story telling. Highly recommend him if you want to maximise showing your impact and telling your story as a key to the success of your business.
John Shaw
Managing Director, Chiltern Rangers
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“Jonathan led an excellent workshop for our team: his presentation was incredibly clear, enthusiastic and gave us lots of ideas to help us improve our photography and story telling in a realistic and manageable way. I can definitely highly recommend him. Thank you Jonathan!”
Melissa Campbell
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“We worked with Jonathan on Photography for Social Change course for UNICEF Ghana staff and stakeholders. Jonathan tailored modules and delivered series of training to improve skills of frontline officers to capture human interest stories through photography. Jonathan invests time in preparation, he is excellent presenter and very talented photographer. He adopted quickly to the local context and build rapport with the diverse group of participants. It will be a pleasure to work with Jonathan again.”
Anastasiya Nurzhynska
Behaviour Scientist, Chief of Social and Behaviour Change, UNICEF -
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“I am participating in a workshop on humanitarian photography with smartphones lead by Jonathan and it has been amazing. Making us think a lot and even took the time to have 1 on 1 sessions with everyone. The sessions have been great, very illustrative and with a lot of constructive discussion that are helping us improve on how we take images on the field.”
Rodrigo Morales
Comunicador Social Plan International -
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“Thank you, Jonathan! A really great intro in to content gathering. It has been so useful learning about photo skills from both a technical point of view, as well as a story telling point of view. Great to get to grips with phone cameras as these are the most accessible ones to us and handy to know best practice using them. Would recommend!”
Katherine Harvey
Twinings Social Impact Team Comms Lead -
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“The course is great. The concepts are clear. It not focus only on good photographs but on experiences and narrative. It is perfect for everyone who wants to start but also useful to refresh the basics of photography.”
Benjamin Sandoval
Bonsucro Mexico
Bespoke group and 1-1 photography training also available
I have been a been a professional photographer, trainer and film maker nearly 35 years.
My workshops encourage playful exploration of creativity, storytelling and presence, while teaching the fundamentals of photography and video in an engaging, practical way.
I’ve run trainings for clean energy, nature, tech and healthcare organisations as well as global organisations like UNICEF, Save the Children and Plan International.
I’ve also facilitated workshops with marginalised young people in Indonesia, Burmese investigative journalists, recovering addicts, UK corporates and creatives, and medics in the NHS.
I’ve also been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for all this time, and discovering photography and developing my own creativity has been an important part of my own personal development.
Jonathan Perugia