Handbook - The Artist Photographer

One of the greatest Brazilian photographers, Sebastião Salgado, says that "you don’t shoot with your camera, but with your culture." In other words, good photographers master technique, great photographers master post-production, but only the truly exceptional ones apply the knowledge of art history to their photography.

My name is Katarzyna Chiluta, I’m a Polish-born artist living in Brazil, a photography and Art History teacher, and the founder of Instituto Foto em Curso, where I’ve trained over 800 photographers from beginner to advanced levels.

Our handbooks were created with the Artist Photographer method! With this learning material, you’ll develop your visual sensibility through the lens of art history and the work of the great masters — all applied to photography — without memorizing names and dates. This will help you make a huge leap in the quality of your photos and triple the amount you can charge for your work.

Yes: the 5 highest-paid and most in-demand photographers in the world today have a solid background in the arts.

We offer 4 handbooks, one from each module:

Module 1: Visual Intelligence and Development of the Artist Photographer’s Eye

Module 2: Art History applied to Photography

Module 3: Creative Processes

Module 4: Photographic Project