Is This Mentorship for You?

This one-to-one mentorship is designed for photographers and visual artists who already have images, visual instincts, or a possible body of work, but need help clarifying what their work is really about and how it can become a coherent photographic project.

It is not a generic portfolio review and not a simple image critique service. It is a structured 8-week process divided into two connected parts: authorial voice and project development.

The first part helps you recognise your affinities, concerns, recurring symbols, visual patterns, and possible artistic direction. The second part translates that direction into a more coherent project through image selection, field work, structure, sequencing, and a short written project declaration.

In simple terms, this mentorship helps you:

• understand what truly belongs to your visual language;
• clarify your authorial direction without forcing a final identity too soon;
• recognise recurring themes, symbols, atmospheres, and visual tensions;
• identify the real nucleus of a project;
• select what belongs and what should be left out;
• strengthen coherence, rhythm, sequencing, and project structure;
• write a short project declaration that clarifies the work without turning it into marketing language.

Format

8 weeks, one-to-one, asynchronous, built around Google Drive documents, image exchange, written feedback, reflection, selection, field work, and sustained dialogue.

This mentorship is especially suited to photographers working in ICM, abstraction, fine art, symbolic, poetic, atmospheric, or non-linear photography.

A 8-Week Mentorship for Developing a Coherent Creative or Fine Art Photographic Project

Programme Structure

1. Intro / Hero Text
2. What This Mentorship Is
3. Two Connected Parts
4. Not a Generic Portfolio Review
5. How This Mentorship Can Begin
6. What We Will Work On
7. A Flexible but Structured Process
8. Format
9. What the Mentorship Includes
10. Who This Is For
11. What You Leave With
12. Duration and Fee
13. Contact / Apply

1. Intro / Hero Text

A one-to-one mentorship for photographers and visual artists who want to clarify a stronger authorial direction and translate it into a more coherent photographic project.

This mentorship is not only about improving individual images. It is about understanding who you are becoming as an artist, what truly belongs to your visual language, and how that identity can begin to take shape as a body of work with stronger coherence, depth, and direction.

2. What This Mentorship Is

This mentorship is structured in two connected parts.

The first part focuses on authorial voice: your affinities, your sensibility, your artistic position, your central concerns, and the direction that feels most truthful within your work.

The second part focuses on project development: how that emerging identity can begin to take form as a coherent photographic project, or how an existing project can be re-read, refined, and strengthened through a clearer authorial direction.

The aim is not to discuss these things only in theory, but to work through them in direct relation to your own images, your own concerns, and your own artistic development.

3. Two Connected Parts

Part I — Authorial Voice

This first part is devoted to clarifying your direction as an artist.

It explores questions such as:

• what attracts you most naturally
• how you want your work to feel
• what is truly yours and what is not
• what position you want to occupy within ICM and, where relevant, within Allegorical Abstractionism
• what truly concerns you
• what you want to contribute, and where your work may be trying to go

This process is not about fixing a final identity too quickly, but about formulating a more conscious and honest authorial hypothesis.

Part II — Project Development

The second part translates that direction into a project.

This may happen in two different ways:

• by helping a project emerge from the authorial direction clarified in the first half
• or by revisiting an already existing project through a more rigorous process of reflection, field work, selection, redefinition, and structure

In both cases, the aim is to move toward a body of work with stronger internal logic, coherence, and presence.

4. Not a Generic Portfolio Review

This is not a generic portfolio review or a simple image critique service.

The focus is not only on isolated photographs, but on:

• the construction of authorial direction
• the recognition of what truly belongs to your language
• the emergence or refinement of a project
• the internal logic of a body of work
• and the relationship between meaning, atmosphere, visual structure, and coherence

The mentorship is therefore both reflective and practical, but always in relation to your own work.

5. How This Mentorship Can Begin

This mentorship can start from different situations.

1. You want to clarify your voice and begin shaping a project

In this case, the first half helps clarify your authorial direction, and the second half helps transform that direction into the nucleus of a project.

2. You already have a project in progress

In this case, the first half helps reveal what in that project feels most truly yours, and the second half helps re-read, refine, and strengthen the work through a more conscious structure.

3. You have related images, ideas, or a visual concern, but not yet a clear project

In this case, the mentorship helps clarify what kind of direction is emerging and whether it can begin to take the form of a more coherent body of work.

6. What We Will Work On

Part I — Authorial Voice (4 weeks)

1. Territory of Affinities and Artistic Sensibility

We begin by identifying what attracts you most naturally: your worlds, oppositions, references, tensions, and aesthetic affinities. This stage helps reveal the first territory of your visual and symbolic belonging.

2. Authorial Synthesis

The first reflections are then condensed into a more focused synthesis. Here the aim is to move from dispersed answers toward a more coherent understanding of your language, concerns, and direction.

3. Provisional Authorial Profile within ICM

From that synthesis, a provisional authorial profile is built — not as a final identity, but as a first structured reading of who you may be becoming as an artist within ICM and, where relevant, within Allegorical Abstractionism.

4. Clarification of Direction and Transition toward Project Work

In this final stage of the first part, the most consistent elements of your voice begin to be clarified. This becomes the bridge toward the second half, where those elements can begin to generate, reshape, or strengthen a project.

Part II — Project Development (4 weeks)

5. Project Nucleus and Visual Direction

We identify what the project is really about beneath its visible theme, what concern or tension sustains it, and what kind of images it requires. This is where the nucleus of the project and its visual direction begin to align.

6. Field Work, Selection, and Early Project Identity

The project is then tested in reality. Through field sessions, early selection, and the first exclusions, the real identity of the body of work begins to emerge. We begin to see what belongs, what does not, and what kind of world the project is actually building.

7. Redefinition, Viability, and Coherence

At this stage, the project is re-read in the light of the images already made and selected. The concept, the direction, the material, and the coherence of the project are brought into dialogue so that the work can become more precise, viable, and internally consistent.

8. Structure, Sequencing, and Written Project Declaration

Finally, the project is organised as a body of work. This includes structure, rhythm, sequencing, and a brief written declaration that clarifies the meaning and direction of the project without turning it into a marketing text. The aim is not external promotion, but a more conscious articulation of the work itself.

7. A Flexible but Structured Process

Although the mentorship is clearly structured, neither the authorial nor the project phases should be understood as rigid or strictly chronological.

In practice:

• earlier phases are often revisited
• visual direction may change after field work
• selection may force a redefinition of the concept
• structure may reveal weaknesses that send the project back to earlier questions

The process therefore remains dynamic. These stages function as reference points, helping the artist stay oriented without turning the mentorship into a rigid sequence.

8. Format

• One-to-one
• Asynchronous
• 8 weeks
• Built around Google Drive documents, image exchange, written feedback, and guided development
• Focused on your actual work, your actual concerns, and your actual project or emerging direction
• The work develops through writing, reflection, image review, field practice, selection, and sustained dialogue.

This mentorship can be taken in English or Spanish. Written material, feedback, image analysis, comments and communication can be provided in either language, according to the participant’s preference. The asynchronous format allows for a careful, precise and reflective exchange through written documents, comments and feedback.

9. What the Mentorship Includes

• A structured 8-week process divided between authorial voice and project development
• Written guidance for each stage
• Personalised feedback on your reflections, images, project direction, and decisions
• Help clarifying your authorial direction within ICM and, where relevant, Allegorical Abstractionism
• Help with project nucleus, visual direction, field work, selection, coherence, structure, and sequencing
• A provisional authorial profile and a guided refinement of that profile
• A short written project declaration at the end of the process
• A one-to-one framework adapted to your material, not a generic formula

10. Who This Is For

This mentorship is for photographers and visual artists who:

• want to clarify a stronger authorial direction
• want to understand what truly belongs to their visual language
• want to move from isolated images toward a more coherent body of work
• want to begin a project from an early intuition, concern, or set of affinities
• already have a project, but feel it is still unclear, uneven, or unresolved
• need support with coherence, selection, structure, and direction
• are working in expressive, poetic, symbolic, atmospheric, abstract, or non-linear forms of photography

It is especially suited to artists working in ICM, abstraction, fine art, symbolic, atmospheric, or broadly creative photographic practices. It is not designed primarily for documentary, journalistic, commercial, wedding, or product-based work.

11. What You Leave With

By the end of the mentorship, you should have:

• a clearer understanding of what your project is really about
• a stronger sense of what belongs to it and what does not
• a more coherent body of selected material
• a clearer structure and sequence
• a stronger title and conceptual framing
• a project that is more legible, more intentional, and more presentable

12. Duration and Fee

Duration: 8 weeks
One-time payment: 625€

Previous participant rate: 550€

13. Final Closing Paragraph / CTA

If you are looking not only to improve individual photographs, but to clarify your artistic direction and develop a body of work with stronger coherence, depth, and identity, this mentorship offers a focused one-to-one space to do that process seriously and with care.

14. Contact/Apply

To ask about availability, request a place, or discuss whether this mentorship is suitable for your current stage, please contact me through the contact page on this website or directly by email at:

macedoniomagno356ac@hotmail.com

You are welcome to contact me in English or Spanish. The mentorship can be developed in either language, including written material, feedback, image analysis and communication throughout the process.

This mentorship is offered on a one-to-one basis, so places are limited and arranged individually according to availability.