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Fashion Image Making Short Course

<p>Fashion Image Making Short Course | On campus</p><p>Image: 'Elle se souvient de tout, les parfums les couleurs', Alona Nelly Cohen, 2025 BA (Hons) Fashion Design: Print, Central Saint Martins, UAL</p>
Explore fashion image making and develop a unique visual language. Experiment with a variety of creative techniques to develop your own distinctive voice.

Next start months
March 2026
July 2026
March 2027
Tutor(s)
Gaetan Bernede
Tarang Bharti
Price
From £1950.00

Course description

Course overview

This exciting course in fashion image making offers students the opportunity to explore imagery more expansively and experimentally. Through photography, print and image manipulation, you will develop a unique visual language, informed by a deep understanding of your identity and perspective.

The course runs over two weeks, and each day follows a lecture, demonstration, and application structure. Classes begin with a lecture introducing key concepts or influential practitioners. This is followed by practical exercises, the introduction of new tools and techniques and time for hands-on practice to apply what you have learnt.

Throughout the course, students explore a variety of techniques such as Riso printing, digital printing (laser and inkjet), bookmaking, darkroom printing (black and white) and studio photography with lighting techniques.

Students investigate contemporary image making across photography, illustration, graphic design and printmaking with an emphasis on developing their own distinctive voice.

Who this course is for

This course is aimed at anyone with an interest in image, photography, graphic identity and creative direction within the space of fashion.

Prior technical skills are not required; however, students will be expected to be curious about the fashion image and its influence on culture at large.

Key information

Topics covered

  1. Business of fashion communication
  2. Image creation and positioning
  3. Art / processes history
  4. Production and logistics
Learning outcomes

  • Be more familiar with various printmaking processes
  • Built a critical understanding of the broader world of fashion image
  • Learnt the fundamental technical skills in the area of focus
  • Present work in an appropriate format
  • Contextualise practice within the space of fashion image making
  • Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials

  • Sketchbooks and pencil case (mediums of choice)
  • Camera or phone for capturing images

Tutor

Gaetan Bernede

Gaëtan is a French, London based image maker. After graduating from a BA in Graphic Design at Central St. Martins he started working as a graphic designer and art director in the beauty sector. Quickly he started assisting photographer and director Yvan Fabing, owning his photographic lighting skills and working on the development of cross media projects. He very naturally spent the following years assisting a wide range of renowned photographers. Working on productions for the likes of Vogue, Elle, Cartier, Boodles, Fendi, Apple, New Balance and many more… His practice, is inspired by historical research, a love for alternative photographic processes, printmaking and informed by his background in graphic arts, all reinforced by his thorough technical knowledge . Over the years, Gaëtan’s work has found its place in some of London’s most interesting magazines ( Port, Objection, Document ), galleries and art fairs. He is also an associate lecturer in Fashion Photography at London College of Fashion and has taught workshops at AMFI in Amsterdam.

Tarang Bharti

As Course Leader for the Graduate Diploma in Fashion Design and Technology, I bring over a decade of teaching experience. My academic practice is rooted in reflective research, critical inquiry, and experimental design processes that explore the intersection of craftsmanship and technology through rigorous technical investigation.

My artistic practice focuses on time and site-specific works that explore my evolving relationship with nature, both in physical and metaphysical terms. Through these investigations, I examine how aesthetic experiences unfold across multiple layers: the material, the perceptual, the experiential, and the intangible spaces that connect them.

By shifting the perspective through which I observe nature, my work seeks to reveal a sense of constancy. Studying nature’s microcosms becomes a way to reflect on our own internal structures and rhythms.

This attentiveness to process informs my teaching and research, nurturing an ever-evolving understanding of creativity across materials, disciplines, and concepts.

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