Smartphone Photography
in Nature
Friday 18 July 2025
Led by artist Graham Fudger, take a more mindful and experimental approach to nature photography, capturing details that often get overlooked.
Inspired by Compton Verney’s grounds and diversity of wildlife, discover the hidden capabilities of your smartphone to view the landscape with new eyes.
Prices and Information
£15 plus valid day ticket or membership
The workshop is recommended for ages 14+
No prior technical experience required. Just make sure to bring along a fully charged smartphone, weather appropriate clothing and footwear suitable for the grounds.
Building on the success of our Curious Adventures in Nature: Smartphone Discovery Walks, multi-disciplinary artist Graham Fudger hosts this new in-depth workshop.
You will be introduced to a range of methods and experimental approaches to documenting nature using your smartphone
Graham will encourage you to take a more mindful and experimental approach to nature photography, promoting a deeper connection to nature helping capture details that often get overlooked. Be inspired by Compton Verney’s grounds and diversity of wildlife and discover the hidden capabilities of your smartphone to view the landscape with new eyes.
The workshop begins indoors with a introduction to subject selection, screen-based composition and methods for interpreting the aesthetic qualities of nature. Graham will give you a tour of your smartphone’s capabilities for recording images and sound, and techniques for handling the camera app.
You will then be invited to explore the grounds at your own leisure, taking photos of your surroundings, with additional options to record cloudscapes with time-lapse, and introduce some plant and bird identifier apps.
After a lunch break, you will be invited to share your images with the rest of the group and do some editing of your images.
Graham will also be available at the end of the session to answer questions and talk about entry routes into mirrorless and DSLR macro photography, for anyone who might be seeking to progress in their photography.
About the artist:
Graham Fudger is a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist working in 3D and digital media. BA and MA trained at the University of Westminster, he spent fifteen years as a portrait photographer and picture editor in the magazine industry post-graduation and took the Man Booker longlist up on to Anthony Gormley’s Fourth Plinth in London. Published on the s[edition] platform, he recently conducted a year-long study of Colour in Contemporary Art funded by the Arts Council, completing it with a residency at Sir Isaac Newton’s family Home, courtesy of the National Trust. https://grahamfudger.com/
