1. Intro / Hero text
2. A New Photographic Language
3. Not a Typical Mentorship
4. Program Format
5. What the Program Includes
6. The 6 Modules
7. What You Receive in Each Module
8. Who This Is For
9. Pricing
10. Contact / Apply
1. Intro / Hero Text
This is not a conventional photography mentorship. It is a one-to-one artistic program built around Allegorical Abstractionism — a symbolic visual language in which abstraction, movement, light, emotion, and narrative intention come together. The mentorship is designed for photographers who want to move beyond isolated images and develop a more personal, intentional, and coherent body of work.
2. A New Photographic Language
This mentorship is grounded in Allegorical Abstractionism, a new photographic language that unites abstraction and allegory, transforming light, gesture, color, and duration into vehicles of meaning rather than mere visual effect. Born from long exposure and intentional camera movement, this approach understands photography not as decorative blur, but as an act of consciousness in which trees, suns, paths, seas, walls, and landscapes remain recognizable enough to function as symbols, metaphors, and contemporary myths. Rooted between Impressionist atmosphere, Expressionist force, and a Mediterranean Baroque intensity of light, the program is designed for photographers who want to move beyond isolated images and develop a more intentional, coherent, and authorial body of work.
3. Not a Typical Mentorship
This is a one-to-one artistic process built for photographers who want to move beyond attractive effects and develop a more intentional visual language. While technique remains important, it is treated here as only one part of a wider practice that also includes symbolism, atmosphere, coherence, project construction, editing with purpose, and the search for a more personal voice.
The aim is not simply to improve individual photographs, but to help the artist understand how images can carry emotion, tension, metaphor, and narrative openness within a coherent body of work. In that sense, the mentorship is designed not as a standard lesson format, but as an entry into a more authorial way of seeing and building photography through the framework of Allegorical Abstractionism.
4. Program Format
The mentorship is offered in a one-to-one asynchronous format, designed to allow a focused, reflective, and personalised development process. It is structured around 6 modules, each intended to unfold over approximately one week, while still allowing a reasonable degree of flexibility according to the artist’s pace, photographic practice, and the specific needs of the process.
Each module includes written material, visual examples from my own work, demonstration videos of the techniques when relevant, and practical exercises or reflections to be developed by the participant. For each photographic outing, the artist also works with review sheets designed to register images, technical choices, observations, and progress over time. In this way, the process is not limited to producing photographs, but also allows us to follow how the student’s control, understanding, and visual language evolve from one exercise to the next. The artist then submits images, thoughts, or work in progress, and receives individual feedback focused on direction, coherence, visual language, and artistic growth. Feedback also takes place throughout the exercises, whether theoretical or practical, so there is always real interpersonal contact during the process.
The program is not based on live teaching sessions, but on a more thoughtful and sustained exchange through Google Drive. Each module is developed there through written material, practical and theoretical exercises, suggested reading, demonstration videos, diagrams, review sheets for photographic outings, and shared working documents. The artist uploads images, reflections, responses, and work in progress, and receives ongoing guidance and regular, often extensive feedback throughout the process, with close daily attention and responses that are typically given very quickly. Although the structure is clear, the mentorship remains flexible and adapts to the pace, level, and personal direction of each artist.
5. What the Program Includes
The program includes 6 structured modules developed around a one-to-one artistic process, combining reflection, practice, and personalized guidance. Participants receive written material for each stage, visual examples drawn from my own work, and practical exercises designed to help translate ideas into images, sequences, and projects.
The mentorship also includes individual feedback on submitted work, image review, support between stages, and ongoing direction focused on visual language, coherence, and project development. Rather than offering generic lessons or isolated corrections, the program is built as a sustained and personal exchange aimed at helping each artist deepen their practice and move toward a more intentional body of work.
6. The 6 Modules
- Introduction to Allegorical Abstractionism
An introduction to the foundations of Allegorical Abstractionism: a photographic language where abstraction, symbolism, movement, light, and emotion come together to create images with greater meaning and narrative depth. This module establishes the central principles of the mentorship and helps the artist understand photography not only as visual experimentation, but as a more intentional and authorial practice. - Long Exposure Travelling ICM
A focused exploration of Long Exposure Travelling ICM, my own technical approach to movement-based photography. This module introduces the foundations of working with displacement, gesture, duration, space, and body movement during long exposures. Through selected core movements, technical control, demonstration videos, and practical exercises, the artist begins to transform camera movement into a more structured, intentional, and coherent visual language. - Mediterranean Baroque and Personal Sensibility
A module centred on light, colour, intensity, and personal atmosphere. The Mediterranean Baroque is presented not as a fixed style to imitate, but as an example of how golden light, chromatic force, expressive abundance, and emotional intensity can shape a photographic language. The artist is encouraged to identify their own sensibility and to understand how light and colour can become symbolic, emotional, and structural elements within their work. - Building Images with Meaning
A module focused on how images begin to carry deeper meaning. The artist learns how subjects, places, light, gesture, atmosphere, and visual tension can move beyond appearance and become symbols, metaphors, or narrative forces. This module helps the participant read scenes more deeply and build images with greater intention, emotional charge, and conceptual direction. - Authorial Voice within Allegorical Abstractionism
A module focused on helping the artist clarify what is truly their own. Through guided reflection and image analysis, the participant begins to identify their natural visual territory, recurring concerns, emotional tendencies, symbolic interests, and artistic direction. The aim is not to impose a style, but to help the artist move from influence and experimentation toward a more personal, coherent, and recognisable voice within the broader field of Allegorical Abstractionism. - Project Construction
The central module of the program, focused on how a group of images becomes a coherent body of work. The artist learns how projects emerge, how they gain structure, how images relate to one another, and how a series develops its own internal rhythm, logic, and atmosphere. This module helps the participant move from isolated photographs toward a more unified, meaningful, and authorial photographic project.
7. What You Receive in Each Module
Each module of the mentorship is built as a working block, not simply as a lesson to read.
In general, every module includes four parts:
Theory
You receive the written material for the module, together with key ideas, conceptual direction, and selected examples from my own work.
Actions
You then work actively with the module through exercises, reflection, image-making, image selection, or project-oriented tasks, depending on the nature of the module.
Feedback
After completing the actions, you upload your responses, images, or progress through Google Drive, and I respond with individual feedback and direction. This means that the mentorship develops progressively, module by module, rather than only at the very end.
Personalization
Each module includes space for personal adjustment. This means that, while the overall structure of the mentorship remains clear, the pace, emphasis, and certain exercises may be adapted in response to the artist’s needs, questions, and developing direction. The aim is not to make the program generic or rigid, but to ensure that it remains personal, relevant, and artistically meaningful throughout the process.
The process is therefore not based on passive reading, but on a continuous exchange between study, practice, reflection, and feedback.
The mentorship is mainly asynchronous and takes place through Google Drive, where the main written material is shared and developed in depth. Feedback and personal guidance are given directly within the documents through comments, written notes, and ongoing review, ensuring a close and continuous dialogue around the work. Google Keep Notes and chat are also used for shorter questions, practical follow-up, and regular contact throughout the process. In this way, the mentorship is not based on passive reading, but on sustained one-to-one support and active accompaniment from start to finish.
8. Who This Is For
This program is intended for photographers who already have some experience with image-making and are looking to go beyond technique alone. It is especially suited to those who feel the need to develop a more intentional visual language, a stronger sense of coherence, and a deeper relationship between individual images and larger bodies of work.
It may be particularly valuable for artists working with abstraction, ICM, long exposure, atmosphere, or expressive photography, but who want to move toward greater symbolic depth, project thinking, and authorial direction. It is not designed as a basic photography course for beginners, but as a more focused and reflective mentorship for artists seeking growth, structure, and a more personal language within their practice.
For some photographers, this mentorship may also represent a natural next step after more introductory or group-based forms of ICM education. It is especially suited to those who have already explored expressive or atmospheric image-making, but feel the need to move further: from finding images to building them, from accidental meaning to greater intention, and from isolated photographs to a more coherent visual language and stronger authorial direction.
In that sense, this is not simply a mentorship for learning ICM, but for deepening it into language, structure, and artistic vision.
9. Pricing
The mentorship is offered in two possible formats, depending on the level of commitment and flexibility preferred by the participant.
Full Program
500€
Paid in advance for the full 6-module program. This is the most complete option and the one that offers the best overall value.
Two-Part Option
325€ + 325€ (Modules 1–3 + Modules 4-6)
For artists who prefer to begin with the first 3 modules and then decide whether to continue. The first payment covers Modules 1–3. If the mentorship continues, a second payment covers Modules 4-6 and completes the full program.
This pricing structure is designed so that the full program offers the strongest overall value, while still allowing a more flexible entry point for artists who may prefer a more gradual start.
10. Contact / Apply
If you feel that this approach resonates with your work, you are welcome to get in touch.
To ask about the mentorship, request a place, or discuss which format may suit you best, please contact me through the contact page on this website or directly by email at macedoniomagno356ac@hotmail.com
This program is offered on a one-to-one basis, so places are limited and arranged individually according to availability.
