Breathing Portrait

About

This is a course for teenagers and young adults on live portrait photography through personal story.

In this course, you will learn how to reveal a person’s character, mood, and inner world through your own perspective, your choice of light, details, and surroundings.

This course is about attentiveness and openness — how to listen to a person, how to feel their presence, notice what is important, and transform it into a photographic frame.

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During the course you will learn:

• different approaches to live portrait photography, using examples from world-renowned photographers

• how to build trust with the person you photograph

• how to convey emotion without staging

• how to work with analogue cameras

As the result of the course you will create your own photographic project about one person and present your work on an exhibition.
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Course entry requirements:

Basic knowledge of composition. Portfolio: 5 photo portraits of your own authorship.

Applications are open until 13 March.

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Teachers

Zaporizhzhia

Elena Tita

Documentary photographer. Since the first days of the full-scale invasion, she has been documenting the impact of war on civilians through vivid color imagery. Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured in films, books, and media — offering students a way to see history through personal stories and raw presence.

Zaporizhzhia

Serhii Andriienko

Serhii Andriienko is an amateur photographer from Zaporizhzhia. He works with analog cameras, shoots landscapes, portrait and home photography. An engineer by profession, he thinks precisely and knows how to explain even complex processes easily and fascinatingly. In film photography, he teaches slowness, the value of the moment, and the enjoyment of the shooting process.