Workshops
Facilitation
Mentoring
Some As We Are workshops teach lens-based skills — the craft of seeing, composing, and creating. Others use imagery as a mirror, exploring identity, memory, and belonging. Most weave the two together, where technique and reflection meet in practice.
We collaborate with individuals, schools, and organisations — guiding projects where images become conversations, and seeing becomes a shared act of understanding.
Past highlights include Girls Make the City with Wetopia and Open Design Afrika, and Decolonising the Lens, a collaboration with a Delft high school. Both, facilitating youth to claim and tell own stories through the lens.
When those who have long been seen through the lens are free to hold it, the image — and the story — begin to change.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Beyond the selfie
Starting TERM ONE
07 FeB 2026
Hosted by The Chapel Lane Academy,
Rondebosch
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
Beyond the selfie
Teen workshops
Starting TERM ONE,
JAN 2026
Hosted by Chapel Lane Academy, Rondebosch
A 10-session workshop delving into the basics of photography from lighting to framing, from shutter speed to ISO. As with all As We Are photo workshops, skills are learned through the lens of exploration of identity and community.
Projects build from one week to the next encouraging investigation and discussion about how we connect to our immediate and larger communities. This beginners photography workshop focusses on teenagers (aged 15 +) giving them voice to own their own narratives.
- 1 x 4 hr session - last week of school, Dec 2025
- 1 x 4 hr session - first week of school, Jan 2026
- 6 x 2 hr Saturday sessions, Term 2026
Reframing
Peri/post-Natal
TBC - Early 2026
A collaborative workshop with a team of perinatal specialists, holding space for reflection and reimagining during the transformative seasons of pregnancy and postpartum.
This collaborative workshop is designed to provide new and soon-to-be moms with a supportive space where they can feel accepted and embraced, just as they are.
Reframing the narrative towards your changing body and upcoming birth can be empowering and healing.
Yes it is a joyful time but it is also exhausting, overwhelming and so much more. Let’s own and share all that pregnancy is. You don’t need to show the world your perfect bump. You are growing a life and transforming into a new parent.
You are a superhero with complexity.
Motherhood
through the lens
TBC - Term 2 2026
A workshop exploring and expressing your motherhood story through the transformative art of photography.
These workshops are open to all mothers, new, seasoned, grand, ad all phases in-between.
Through technical pracs & meaningful conversation, we’ll learn to mindfully and truthfully photograph our families, by putting others back into the family archive.
While cultivating the skills to consciously document your family, you'll reflect on how images shape who you you and how you mother.
GIRLS MAKE THE CITY PROJECT
Athlone 2025
Through the lens, your bring your life into the room - learning not only to see in new ways but also to open up to new perspectives
Over the years, As We Are has collaborated with diverse communities, organisations, and NGOs to explore how we see — and what shapes that seeing.
Community engangement
Decolonising the Lens was a year-long collaborative project linking teens in Delft, Cape Town, with teens in rural Germany. Through shared prompts and guided reflection, teens explored stories that overlap and diverge — revealing both their shared humanity and their unique ways of seeing.
teens
Projects such as Teens Through the Lens and Neurospice Reframed have opened new ways of looking at identity and belonging.
motherhood
Reframing Motherhood teaches practical photography skills while gently turning the camera back toward the mother — exploring how images shape who we are, and how we mother.
Pregnancy Through a New Lens is a collaborative workshop with a team of perinatal specialists, holding space for reflection and reimagining during the transformative seasons of pregnancy and postpartum.
A new session will be held in early 2026.