Art Mentorship and Consultancy
I lead one-to-one photography consultations — there are no groups, so you’ll get the most attention specifically to your questions.
What can you come to me with?
For photographers — how to choose your project theme, put together a series, what to do if you get stuck and don’t move in your project, and totally practical questions like how to work with multi-exposure.
And for people of absolutely any profession — how to experience their life more vividly and fully using photography as a mindfullness instrument.
For me, photographs are portals to places and experiences, the best way to feel the moment and to experience it.
It saddens me to see how Instagram style alienates photography from its creator, forcing them to guess and create something that is pleasing to the eye of others, thereby losing connection with their own life instead of strengthening it.
In my consultancy, I will be happy to help restore this connection, which greatly enriches life. It is a visual meditation, a way to experience your days and remember them fully, with feelings.
I teach online and in person in Folkestone.
Working with photos is like meditation. It helps you to ground yourself.
Is it magic or art-therapy, depends on your belief.
I consider art to be both, and practice this.
My experience and education
I have been teaching one-to-one classes with individual clients since 2020. I also have experience of group work with teenagers in camps and crisis centres, with adults in author’s courses and workshops (federal network of educational centres Unium, charity fund Time to Help, charity fund Teply Dom, space Other worlds, (Petersburg), children’s camp Primorsky (Ukraine), 2013-2018)
This is what my approach is based on:
- Education received at the Imaton Institute in Phototherapy
- Education at the Russian Art Therapy Association on the course Multimodal Art Therapy as a practice of simple steps
- Photography education (more in Bio)
- Research and tutorial work by Judy Weiser, Christine Nunes, Meena Savolainen, Pamela Dunn, David Ulrich, Alexander Kopytin, and George Platts. A special role is played by Natalie Rogers and her multi-modal art-therapeutic approach. I am also very close to Michael White’s narrative approach. All of this I compose, transforming it into my own.
- Great experience of personal therapy — over 400 hours
- Practice since I was a little girl. When I didn’t yet know the method had a name, it helped me.
To book a session
you can write to me via any messenger you like or in the box below, and we will arrange a meeting.
Consultancy lasts one hour (60 minutes). The cost per consultancy is £65 (payable in $ and € as well)
e-mail diniletters@gmail.com • telegram tavistok • instagram @vidini.art • whatsapp