“My Places” is a photography course about personal connection with urban space — and how our feelings, memories and inner states are manifested through the city. We will explore how different places influence our feelings, memories and behavior, and how our own experiences change the perception of the city. Through photography and psychogeographic practices, participants will learn to observe space and their own reactions to it more closely. We will change our usual routes, look for special places, work with chance, memory and personal associations.

Each participant will create their own photo series and try to express their view of the city, their own feelings and experience of interacting with space through photography: what attracts attention, which places evoke emotions, what remains in memory and how urban space can reflect our inner state.

The course will combine lectures on photography and psychogeography, practical tasks, city research, group discussions and work on your own photo project, which will be presented at the final exhibition.

🔸 Admission requirements:
— basic knowledge of composition;
— 5 photos of your own authorship.

🔸 Course teachers:

Olena Tita is a documentary and portrait photographer from Zaporizhia. She works with themes of loss, psychological and physical trauma, motherhood during war, as well as in the genre of artistic portraiture. In her teaching, she emphasizes practice and the development of her own creative vision. Founder of a local community of artists with free photo practices.

Serhiy Andrienko is an amateur photographer from Zaporizhia. She works with analog cameras, shoots landscapes, portraits and home photography. An engineer by profession, he is able to explain even complex processes accurately and in an accessible way. In photography, he teaches slowness, the value of the moment, and the satisfaction of the shooting process itself.

📍 Location: Zaporizhzhia, shelter in Khortytskyi district

📅 When: 5 meetings on Saturdays, from September 19 to October 31, 12:00–15:00

🖼 Final exhibition: October 31

👥 For whom: teenagers and young adults (14–22 years old)

💸 Participation is free — Canon provides cameras and all necessary materials.

The course was created together with KINO and is implemented with the support of Canon and the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Zaporizhzhia City Council.

Applications are accepted until September 13, 2026.

📷 Cover photo: Veronika Pryss