Curated Workshops are application-led photography sessions designed around a specific visual problem, aesthetic, or production setup. They are not theory-heavy courses. They are short, focused formats where participants arrive with their cameras and step directly into a fully prepared shoot.
The concept is simple: strong visual setups, small groups, concentrated shooting time, and a chance to learn through doing. Each workshop is built around a defined theme — such as dance, UV portraiture, nude art, product photography, or a lighting study like creating seven different portrait looks with a single light.
Some editions are paid public workshops. Others are closed, partner-led, or community-based sessions for groups such as Sony Türkiye or FOTON members. All are shaped with the same attention to image quality, structure, and practical learning.
Each session is typically built as a compact 2–4 hour format. The aim is not to overload participants with theory, but to give them a clear visual challenge, enough shooting time, and a strong concentration of practical learning.
Lighting, set logic, professional models, styling, makeup, props, and overall coordination are prepared in advance by Burak Bulut Yıldırım and his team. Participants bring their cameras and concentrate on shooting, observing, and learning.
These sessions are designed to produce usable material while also teaching something specific. The value lies in both outcomes at once: stronger images for the portfolio, and a better understanding of how those images were made.
Dance, ballet, pole dance, gesture, and body-led portrait sessions where timing, posture, and light become the main teaching material.
UV portrait workshops, colour-driven sets, sculptural portrait lighting, and sessions that investigate how image, body, and atmosphere interact.
Product photography, commercial still-life, and tightly focused lighting workshops such as building multiple portrait looks with a single light source.
Current and near-term editions can be announced here as they are scheduled. These cities remain the core production bases for the workshop program.
As the workshop program expands, selected London editions can be added here — carrying the same short-format, fully curated model into a new context.
This page will host upcoming workshop announcements over time. Until then, inquiries about future Berlin, Istanbul, and London editions — or closed workshops for partner communities, institutions, brands, and photography groups — are welcome by email.
A short note with your city, level, area of interest, or partnership context is enough to begin the conversation.
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