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Art, photography & Ukrainian photography
What art is and how photography earns its place within it — through to the history of Ukrainian photography.
Halyna Hleba
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A three-month foundation program where you move from scattered images to a body of work with its own voice — guided by mentors, real critique, and Ukraine's professional photography community.
Apply for the Photography as a Medium programme — starts 8 September 2026PHOTO by Oleksii Furman
A three-month foundation program where you move from scattered images to a body of work with its own voice — guided by mentors, real critique, and Ukraine's professional photography community.
Apply for the Photography as a Medium programme — starts 8 September 2026A body of work
A finished photographic series with its own voice — not a hard drive of scattered images.
An eye you trust
The judgment to know your own work holds up, built through real critique.
A place in the profession
Step into Ukraine's photography community, and a direct line to its opportunities.
PHOTO BY Cary Fukunaga
We've spent years in the room with photographers like you.
UAPP represents Ukrainian photography to the world. We're an official member of the Federation of European Photographers (FEP), which speaks for more than 50,000 professionals across Europe. For years we've run the mentorships, microgrants, portfolio reviews and lectures that move Ukrainian photographers forward.
Foundation Level is everything we've learned from that work, built into a single path you can follow.
Meet the faculty→OFFICIAL MEMBER · FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHERS
50,000+ PROFESSIONALS REPRESENTED
We've spent years in the room with photographers like you.
UAPP represents Ukrainian photography to the world. We're an official member of the Federation of European Photographers (FEP), which speaks for more than 50,000 professionals across Europe. For years we've run the mentorships, microgrants, portfolio reviews and lectures that move Ukrainian photographers forward.
Foundation Level is everything we've learned from that work, built into a single path you can follow.
Meet the faculty→OFFICIAL MEMBER · FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHERS
50,000+ PROFESSIONALS REPRESENTED
PHOTO BY Cary Fukunaga
This is more than a course. It's where a photographer is made.
UAPP School is an educational platform that brings systematic education, work on an author's project, professional feedback, mentorship, community and international opportunities into a single trajectory for a photographer's development.
Not lectures you forget, but work that becomes yours.
PHOTO BY Mstyslav Chernov Working practitioners read your work closely — and tell you what actually moves it forward.
PHOTO BY MSTYSLAV CHERNOV Regular crits train you to see your own frames as honestly as anyone else's.
PHOTO BY Garry Efimov Guest lectures and ties to the institutions shaping photography today.
PHOTO BY Roman Pilipey / AFP via Getty Images After the program you stay inside UAPP's professional community.
PHOTO BY Anastasiia Vlasova Open calls, residencies and reviews come to those already on the community's radar.
PHOTO BY GEORGE Ivanchenko
How
The UAPP School of Photography and Visual Culture develops around three directions
the school is structured
The UAPP School of Photography and Visual Culture develops around three directions
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Education
- Foundation Level
- Core Program
- Specialised programs
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Community
- Portfolio reviews
- Mentorship & microgrants
- Consultations & support
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International context
- Lectures & partnerships
- Residencies
- Global experts & exchange
FOUNDATION LEVEL IS YOUR ENTRY POINT INTO ALL THREE
From the First Idea to a Completed Series
Your path is simple
Three months of learning, regular meetings, practical assignments, critique sessions, and dedicated work on a single authorial series—from the very first week to the final presentation
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Enrol
Claim your place in the first cohort. It begins 8 September 2026.
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Develop Your Authorial Vision
Over three months — hybrid online + offline — you develop your own photographic series through lectures, practice, mentorship and critique
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Present Your Completed Series
You graduate with a finished body of work, the start of a real portfolio, and a place inside the UAPP community.
3 MONTHS
COHORT 01 · 08.09.2026
HYBRID
Your entry into contemporary photography
The first level of UAPP School, and your way in to the professional community. It's built for the move from individual photographs to a meaningful project of your own — and a foundation you can keep building on for years.
Five modules, built around one project
28+ sessions, two evenings a week across three months — every lecture and crit feeding the series you build from week one.
08.09 — 04.12HYBRID28+ SESSIONS
The project
Your own series
From a first idea in week one to a finished series, you spend the whole course building one body of work — researching, shooting, editing and structuring a series of 8–15 images, supported the whole way through. Every module feeds it; the project is the spine the program is built on.
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Technique as a tool for visual decisions
Cameras, optics, light and processing — the technical craft treated as deliberate visual choices, not just settings.
Valentyn Kuzan
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Composition, colour & visual literacy
How images are built and how we perceive them — from the golden ratio and rhythm to colour and digital colorimetry.
Kinder Album
Kostiantyn Zorkin
Daria Svertilova
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Professional practice, ethics & trauma-informed work
Practice across genres — portrait, documentary, reportage and conceptual work — with ethics and building a career.
Oleg Petrasiuk
Tetiana Lysun
Dmytro Prutkin
Serhiy Polezhaka
Ivan Chernichkin
Kateryna Radchenko
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Reading the image & contemporary art
What photographs tell us, and how contemporary art reshapes documentary photography and the way we read it.
Kseniya Malykh- Tetiana Lysun
How the Program Works
Education
- Duration3 MONTHS
- FormatHYBRID — ONLINE + IN PERSON
- Cohort01 · BEGINS 08.09.2026
By the end, you will have:
A finished photographic series of your own
The eye to analyse and edit your own images
Professional feedback on your work
The foundation of a real portfolio
A project you can confidently present
A path to continue inside UAPP's programs
You will learn from those who shape Ukrainian photography and visual culture
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Take your place in Cohort 01.
- First cohort starts8 SEPTEMBER 2026
- Early bird until25 JULY
- Enrolment closes25 AUGUST
- FormatHYBRID · 3 MONTHS
- Places15
Cost of the Program
UAH 29,000
- Monthly3 × UAH 11,000
All prices are for the full course.
What every place includes
Six modules, 24+ live sessions
Professional critique on every project
Mentorship and regular portfolio reviews
A finished photographic series of your own
The foundation of a real portfolio
A place inside the UAPP community
Your development doesn't stop when the course does.
Finishing Foundation Level keeps you inside the UAPP ecosystem. From here, the door stays open to:
International Portfolio Reviews
Mentorship & Microgrants
The International Program
Open Calls
Lectures, events & the UAPP community
Frequently asked questions
No. The programme is designed both for those who are just beginning their path in photography and for authors with some basic experience. What matters most is your motivation to learn, develop your own vision, and work on an authorial project.
Most photography courses focus on technique and working with the camera. UAPP School approaches photography as a tool for thinking, research, and authorial expression. At the centre of the learning process are the development of your own voice, work on an authorial project, critical thinking, professional feedback, mentorship, and a long-term trajectory for your development as a photographer.
For most sessions, any camera with manual settings will be enough, whether DSLR or mirrorless. For some assignments, it will also be possible to work with a modern smartphone.
Yes. The programme has a hybrid format and combines online classes with selected offline meetings, workshops, and events. If you miss a session, you will have access to learning materials and lecture recordings.
Yes. Foundation Level offers the option of staged payment. Detailed terms and the payment schedule are available upon request — please contact us at the email address provided.
Or you can keep going the way you have been.
Photography can be more than a single image or a reaction to what you see. It can become a way of thinking, researching, shaping your perspective, and communicating with an audience. Photography as a Medium will help you move from intuitive image-making to a conscious authorial practice: develop a theme, build a coherent series, receive professional feedback, and discover how your work can continue to grow through the UAPP community, projects, and opportunities.
THE FIRST COHORT STARTS 8 SEPTEMBER 2026. TAKE YOUR PLACE IN IT.
