A fourteen-week one-on-one mentorship for photographers ready to define a body of work and see it through.
Most photography instruction teaches technique. This is something else.
Study is a structured, one-on-one collaboration built around a single outcome: a complete, considered ten-image series you're proud to put in front of clients, galleries, or editors — the same process behind Thresholds and the Tiffany Study.
Over fourteen weeks, you bring the ambition. I bring forty-five years behind a camera, five years running an editorial and commercial studio, and nineteen years learning — as a data scientist — how to find the signal that actually matters inside a lot of noise. You won't get cheerleading. You'll get a direct, working-photographer's read on what's working, what isn't, and why.
Study is built for photographers who already shoot — who have a camera, a body of work in progress, or at least the beginnings of one — and who are ready to commit to a single project over fourteen weeks rather than collect more techniques. It's not a class. I'm not assigning your project; you are. My role is to help you see it clearly and finish it well.
PHASE 1 — WEEK 1 · THE PROJECT DEFINED
You bring three ideas. We test each one against three questions: can it be made with what you already have, does it stretch you, and is it strong enough to stand as a series? One idea becomes your project.
PHASE 2 — WEEKS 2–6 · EARLY BUILDS
Biweekly sessions track the series as it takes shape. Each one ends with a specific assignment. You shoot, I review before you return.
PHASE 3 — WEEK 7 · THE DIP
By now you've made twenty-plus images, and some of them won't feel like the project anymore. That's not a setback — it means your eye is sharpening. We sort what's working from what isn't.
PHASE 4 — WEEKS 8–12 · THE GRIND
The series is taking shape. Critique shifts from technique to whether every image is earning its place. Sessions get harder as the work gets closer to finished.
PHASE 5 — WEEK 13 · PRE-REVIEW
You submit a draft final ten plus your artist statement. We confirm the selection together before the closing session.
PHASE 6 — WEEK 14 · FINAL REVIEW
You walk me through your finished ten images. I deliver a written review you keep. We talk about what the work says — and where it points next.
Investment
$979 for the full fourteen weeks — one project, one collaborator, no shortcuts.
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