Reflected Self: Environmental Selfie
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Create a self-portrait using reflections or shadows, making yourself part of the environment rather than the sole subject. Produce 3–5 images where you are embedded in your surroundings, capturing context, light, and atmosphere along with your own...
Stationary Exploration: Coffee Seat Photography
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Choose a café or a spot to sit and take photographs without leaving your chair. Your goal is to capture a variety of subjects, expressions, and aesthetic details from a single vantage point. Produce 6–10 images exploring what’s possible from one...
your own vision: For Me or for Others
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Explore the difference between photographing for an audience versus photographing for yourself. Select a subject and take multiple pictures of the same scene or object, alternating your intention:1. For others: Frame and compose the image with the goal...
Seeing the Potential
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Spend time observing your surroundings without immediately taking photos. The goal is to train your eye to notice the photographic potential in everyday scenes. Look for interesting light, lines, textures, colors, shapes, movement, or moments that...
Three Images & a Reflection
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Create a series of 3 photographs focused on a single subject, scene, or moment. Along with your images, write a short paragraph reflecting on your experience. Choose one of the following approaches for your text:• Why you stopped and took the picture:...
One Subject, Three Perspectives
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Pick a single subject — a person, object, architectural detail, or street scene — and photograph it using three different focal lengths (wide, standard, and telephoto). Create a mini-series of 3–5 images that show how perspective, context, and...
Color Focus: One Hue
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Create a series of 5 photographs where one color dominates each image and becomes the main subject. Explore streets, markets, architecture, textiles, or everyday objects, focusing on how color shapes mood, composition, and story. Your series should...
Curves & Arches
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Focus on the curves and arches of gates, doorways, and architectural details in the Medina. Create 6–10 images that explore repetition, scale, and rhythm by combining large arches with smaller ones or capturing segments of arches to create abstract or...
Empty Streets & Ghostly Shadows in Marrakech
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Capture the character and atmosphere of narrow streets in the Medina without people physically in the frame, or by using only their shadows. Produce 6–10 images that emphasize architecture, light, texture, and mood, letting streets tell the story on...
At Their Level: Street Animals
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Photograph animals — cats, dogs, birds, or other creatures — in the streets of the Medina, from their eye level. Capture 6–10 images that show their behavior, interaction with the environment, and character, without imposing your perspective from...
Shadow Play: People in Silhouette
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Choose a location and a time of day where people’s shadows fall clearly on walls, floors, or other surfaces. Your entire series of 6–10 photographs should focus on shadows as your subject, rather than the people themselves.Your task is to:• Observe...
Observe, Anticipate, Capture
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Develop your ability to observe movement and anticipate decisive moments. For this exercise, you will focus on reading patterns — in light, in people’s behaviour, and in the flow of the Medina.Create 6–10 images that rely not on luck, but on...
Feet & Shadows: Stories on the Ground
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Create a series of 6–10 images focusing on the feet, steps, and long shadows of people moving through the Medina. Instead of photographing faces or upper bodies, concentrate on what happens at ground level.Your goal is to use backlight, extended...
Pockets of Light
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Seek out scenes in the Medina where light cuts through narrow streets, courtyards, or doorways, creating isolated pockets of brightness surrounded by deep shadow. Capture 6–10 photographs that explore this interplay of darkness and illumination.Your...
The Craftsman’s Story
YOUR ASSIGNMENT Create a small reportage about a traditional craftsman in the Medina. Your goal is to visually narrate his environment, his work, his tools, his gestures, and the essence of his craft.Your sequence of images should include:• A wide or establishing shot...
Reduce to the max or create a choreography of chaos – it’s your choice
Make a choice whether you want to work with a wide range of aspects (forms, textures, colors, things, people) or if you reduce to nuances of only few aspects Some shots are working, because they have a carefully chosen aspect and quiet look on a main subject and a...
A Day in the Life of…
Diving deep into the reality of a persons life Working on a reportage about peoples life can be one of the most compelling learnings in photography. For this, you have to dive really deep into a persons reality and spend a certain amount of time with the individual....
Available Light Portraits
Seeing and understanding the light, and how it shapes the mood and character of the subject Taking portraits with available light creates a very natural look. With available light you can shape your subject but also use the mood of the scenery. Be aware that available...
Looking for abstract shapes in your photography
When it seems there is nothing spectacular around and the scenery looks boring, you may change your view and take in regard that there always is some geometry around. It can be very inspiring to switch to microcosmos or to reduce to a minimalistic number of elements,...
Take 10 portraits exploring 10 different light situations
What comes to your mind if you think of different indirect and bounced light versus direct light, light situations? Your assignment Ask your model (or different people) to take a portrait and look for 10 different light situations. You may bring light with you, but...
Work with manual exposure & external light meter
Understanding exposure is crucial for your work as photographer. It is a good start to get familiar with f-stops and how aperture, shutter speed and ISO is connected.If you start thinking in f-stops, it makes your life much easier: A full stop always doubles the light...
Work with depth of field
'work with shallow depth of field and your photos will look much more professional' 🙂 alright, but how can you achieve this? Well, there are three factors we can use to create a nice background blur: shoot in aperture priority and use an open aperture value (low...
30 min for 300 m on your own
Train your perception and your awareness Your assignment This assignment is about spending 30 min on the next 300 m and see what can be discovered. Do not move back and forth more than 300 m. Take photos of any subject you think is worth. Observe how your vision and...
Exploring perspective
Your assignment Choose a subject you want to shoot Shoot it from at least 10 different angles/perspectives Shoot it from another 5 different perspectives Do not switch to another subject unless you have as many different angles as possible (when you move on, to the...
5 portraits of 5 strangers in 1 hour
Your assignment For a specific period of time only work on portraits with strangers. Ask people from the street or any other accessible space to take a portrait. choose the light situation that works best with the person Encouraging consideration How does it feel to...
Create a narrative out of 5 images
Every image should be strong for itself. At the same time they should work as a series.Also write in a short essay about these things: what is your story about? what is special about it? What is new about this for the audience? What was surprising for yourself?...
The very first assignment
The very first photography assignment is not to take photos. Instead, observe. Feel. Think about what questions arise. Think about who you are. Think about your intention. Think about your beliefs. How do you feel in front of a camera? What would you need to feel...
One focal length
Portrait of my friend Youssef on our way to the studio(that's what we thought) 18 mm (27 mm FF equivalent) isn't the best portrait lens at all and yes, the editing is poor 😉 and uses far too much vignetting… but for us, this portrait of Youssef in the morning sun is...
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