Working
Together.
Growth Shared, Lessons Carried Forward
Your Work. Your Voice. Your Path.
Whether you are shaping a longform project, preparing a photobook or exploring personal documentary work, mentorship is a space to refine your vision, strengthen your practice and deepen your confidence as a storyteller.
It’s Personal is the name I’ve given to my teaching and mentorship practice because the most enduring documentary work often begins close to home: lived experience, real questions and a point of view you can’t borrow.
Personal doesn’t mean confessional. It means intentional: making work with responsibility, emotional truth, authenticity and craft. For me, there’s no separation between who we are and what we make. Every image holds our choices: our tenderness, our conflicts and our way of seeing.
My role is to help you find the spine of the work, what it’s really about, and then build a structure around it: edit, sequence, text and next steps. I teach with warmth and rigour: close-looking, honest feedback and a steady rhythm that keeps the work moving.
I take on a limited number of mentees each year to ensure a focused, high-touch experience. Early applications are encouraged.
It's Personal:
3-6 Month
Mentorship.
Your Project. Your Voice. Your Time.
This three to six-month mentorship is fully tailored to your needs. Whether you're working towards publishing a book, completing a long-term project or redefining your vision and relationship with photography, I’m here to support your process.
This is a space for committed photographers ready to move with intention. You set the pace and I help you shape the path.
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A tailored mentorship designed to support your growth over three or six months, depending on your needs. Each programme includes a steady rhythm of one-to-one sessions:
One session per month (three in total for the three-month option)
Two sessions per month (12 sessions in total for the six-month option)
Reflective time and guided development so your work evolves with intention and clarity.
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Sessions take place via Google or Zoom, with in-person meetings possible when geography allows. Email support is included throughout your mentorship to provide continuity, accountability and space for questions as your project unfolds.
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Your mentorship may include any of the following, shaped to your needs and artistic direction:
Project development & narrative refinement
Editing and sequencing guidance
Photobook exploration & concept shaping
Artistic direction and clarifying your visual voice
Career strategy, positioning and professional development
Long-term body of work support
Preparation for exhibitions, publications or pitches
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Pricing is shared directly once you enquire, ensuring we tailor the structure to fit your goals and level of commitment. Flexible monthly payment plans are available for both the three- and six-month options.
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Written Feedback Package: Formal notes on your portfolio, project structure or draft sequencing
(+£75)Additional Sessions: Extra one-to-one sessions can be added at any time if you need deeper support or are approaching a deadline.
It's Personal - One Day Intensive
Visual Laboratory for
Stories Born of Experience.
In the summer of 2018, I began It’s Personal, a workshop series inspired by my own photographic practice. My vision is to create an intimate space to explore “the personal” and what that means in the context of photography.
Personal can take many forms. In this visual laboratory, I’ll guide you in uncovering what it means for you. Expect to get lost - and unlost. That’s one of the most exhilarating parts of the process.
We spend long hours immersed in editing, both in group discussions and one-on-one sessions. We also explore current issues in photography and publishing. I share my own tools and experience with you. Your work will move forward after this experience.
This is an intensive one-day visual laboratory for no more than 6 participants.
I curate these sessions across various venues and locations around the world - and will gladly host one where you are.
If you’re interested in joining, please get in touch.
In Their Words.
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"I met Laura when she was a visiting lecturer on my MA course. I was immediately impressed by her work, her sensitivity to her subject matter and her ability to translate the ephemeral and intangible into compelling visual imagery. Laura subsequently helped me explore and add words to an archival project I’d started working on. I’d become a bit stuck with it, but her capacity to swiftly grasp the essence of the series and her empathy — with me as a human being and my work in its own right — were invaluable to my process of evolving the project, as were her observations on elements of the images I hadn’t noticed myself."
Julia Neal, participant in one-to-one online mentorship
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"If you are looking for a teacher, or a mentor, for photography, I can very highly recommend Laura. I have worked with her for nearly two years and she has been a guiding force for me in putting together my first book. She does this with a deft touch. She knows photography and gives feedback that is both sensitive and direct. She is also incredibly perceptive, both visually and for what lies behind the photograph. As a mentor, she leads from behind and helps you uncover your voice and your story. She is also a tasteful editor. If you can work with her, you will surely become more masterful in these arts."
Bob Farese, Jr., mentored through the making & publication of his first book
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“I was lucky enough to take part in one of Laura’s workshops in late 2018, and found it to be a useful, inspiring and genuinely collaborative experience which helped me organise, value and reconsider my own book project with a fresh pair of eyes. Laura is patient, constructive, considerate and critical in just the right way, fostering confidence, not despair!”
Sam Anthony, participant, On Making Books, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Interested in something else?
I also work with universities, museums, festivals, galleries and organisations on bespoke educational programmes, artist talks and collaborative projects.