In summer 2026, KiNO held a series of online photography workshops for participants who were already familiar with the basic skills of photography and wanted to develop their own personal projects.

When the technical basics are already there, the most difficult and interesting stage begins: how to turn a feeling, memory, question or observation into a photographic series. During the workshops, participants developed their ideas, searched for a visual language, discussed references, wrote project texts, used AI as an additional tool in the learning process, and gave each other feedback.

Group discussion became an important part of the course. Participants shared unfinished work, tried to formulate more precisely what their projects were about, and gradually brought together photographs, text and titles into personal artistic statements.

As a result of the workshops, the participants presented their final projects:

“UNreality” by Olha Rzhevska
A project about frustration, disorientation and the feeling of unreality that can appear after traumatic experiences such as war.

“The observer” by Veranika Vaitovich
A project about learning to notice a new city after migration, and building a connection with a place through details, people and everyday observations.

“After Love I Still Find You In Things” by Alina Kurylo
A personal series about memory, tenderness and the traces of love that remain in objects, light and ordinary surroundings.

“Benign” by Vladyslav Yahnon
A project about anxiety, obsessive checking and the fragile boundary between danger and safety.

“Belarus(s)ian Activist” by Alisa Zhuk
A project about Belarusian identity, activism, political memory and the experience of growing up with a country’s history inside one’s own life.

For KiNO, this series of workshops was also a way to test a format that supports young authors after the first stage of learning. The course helped participants move from separate images towards personal projects, and showed how structure, conversation and a supportive group can help an idea grow into a photographic statement.