CREATE MEANINGFUL PHOTOGRAPHS GUIDED BY INTENT & PERSONAL VISION
The MasterCOURSE will teach you how to really see and use photography as a creative tool for meaningful personal expression, revealing not only how the world looks to you, but mostly how it feels to you.
Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned photographer, sooner or later you will feel that your photography has plateaued, and that you are taking the same old pictures in different places… If this sounds familiar to you, chances are there might be something missing in your images: a clear intent and a strong personal vision.
There is only so much you can learn through isolated workshops, individual books and online material found on the internet. For the serious photographer who really wants to make a quantitative leap in their photography, the options have been limited... For this reason, we created the MasterCOURSE “Photography with Intent”: The first coherent, structured and comprehensive online mentoring program for expressive photographers.
The MasterCOURSE is the cornerstone of the Essential Seeing Photography School. It is a flexible, structured and mentored distance learning program that will cover in depth all the steps of the photographic process, helping you create meaningful photographs, guided by intent, from the original message to the final print.
The MasterCOURSE will not only hugely improve your theoretical, practical and critical skills when it comes to expressive photography, it will also provide you with a holistic view of all the different steps involved. Indeed, light, visual design, composition, post-processing, printing and presentation are not independent steps, but an extension of each other. When becoming one of the MasterCOURSE students, you are enrolling in a structured, coherent and comprehensive learning program. The unique value of the MasterCOURSE resides not only in the quality of the various modules it consists of, but also in the way they are linked together.
The MasterCOURSE is not just another online course where you buy material and are left alone. It is truly a mentoring program, with personalized guidance, feedback and support. The MasterCOURSE will start with a Portfolio Review and personal assessment of your work by your tutor. Then, throughout the course, you will apply what you have learned by means of a series of Practical Assignments that will cover the whole creative process, from message to print. Every Practical Assignment will be personally assessed by your tutor, providing you with personalized feedback and guidance. At the end of the MasterCOURSE, you will receive a Diploma certifying your achievement and a printed portfolio of the body of work we have put together throughout the learning program.
As a member of the MasterCOURSE, you will also have access to the Video-Assessments of all the other students. This will provide you with hundreds of hours of enlightening videos containing a ton of insight for your own photography!
The MasterCOURSE represents the culmination of 7 years of work, and the materialization of Rafael Rojas’ knowledge and experience as a Master Hasselblad Fine Art Photographer, his academic depth provided by an MA in Photography and his pedagogical skills as a former post-graduate university lecturer. This learning program also draws on his hundreds of hours of experience teaching personal photography through workshops, photo-immersion trips and lectures all over the world.
The MasterCOURSE is, indeed, Rafael Rojas’ biggest contribution to the community of fellow photographers and the apex of his teaching career.
“I am utterly convinced the MasterCOURSE will provoke a turning point in the way you approach your own photography.”
YOU ARE ABOUT TO BECOME A BETTER PHOTOGRAPHER!
1. PERSONALIZED MENTORSHIP
You will not learn alone. Truly a mentoring program!
The MasterCOURSE is not just another online course where you buy material and are left alone. It is truly a mentoring program, with personalized guidance, feedback and support.
Already at the beginning of the course you will have a One-to-One meeting with your tutor, where he will review your Portfolio and assess the next steps directly with you. Then, throughout the course, you will apply what you have learned by means of several Practical Assignments (PA) that will cover the whole creative process, from message to print. Upon submission of each Practical Assignment, you will receive a personalized Video Assessment (VA) from your tutor, that will provide you with feedback, guidance, and support.
In case you need to ask a few things or clarify some aspects during the MasterCOURSE, you will be able to do so through One-to-One meetings with your tutor.
In other words, you will never be alone!
2. EFFECTIVE LEARNING
Reach the next level and improve your theoretical, practical and critical skills
1’000 PAGES OF ILLUSTRATED CONTENT
30 HOURS OF AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIAL
MANY CASE STUDIES & EXAMPLES
The MasterCOURSE, with almost 1’000 pages and 30 hours of videos is very well structured in different modules, chapters and sub-chapters, allowing you to advance easily and quickly through the material, at your own pace. It can be relied upon to deliver not only plenty of theory, but also focus on the practical applications, with hundreds of illustrations, schemes, diagrams, practical scenarios and commented case studies. There is certainly a lot of material in the MasterCOURSE, but the whole program has been designed so that you find the learning process highly enjoyable and rewarding.
We rely on tried and tested methods to deliver effective learning, combining theory, practice & reflection. For this reason, every written module includes a series of challenging exercises designed to provide practical, hands on experience of some of the key learning points in each module.
3. CREATIVE EXPRESSION, DECRYPTED
Learn how to use photography as a tool of personal and creative expression, guided by intent
4. COMPREHENSIVE & STRUCTURED PROGRAM
Learn in a year what takes most people a decade or more to master
5. FLEXIBLE & AT YOUR OWN PACE
The MasterCOURSE is a flexible learning program that you can follow at your own pace. There are no fixed dates to finish each module and to submit each Practical Assignment, and you can adjust your progression to your agenda. Your tutor will adapt to your rhythm so that you decide when you fix your meetings with him and receive his Assessments as you progress.
For someone studying spare-time , this course might take around 1 year to be completed. This can be done by allotting a few hours every week, enjoying the process without it becoming a burden. You can also finish the Master COURSE in six months if you make it your main priority! It is all up to you. What is important is that this MasterCOURSE has been designed not only to help you become a much better photographer but also to let you fully enjoy the learning process and learn at your own pace, with all flexibility.
Once you enroll in our MasterCOURSE, you will have two full years of access to the MasterCOURSE content area. Because the MasterCOURSE has been designed to be covered in one year for most people, you have plenty of time to fully go through the course and the Practical Assignments, even at the slowest pace, without having to stress. In these 24 months you should have covered the different Practical Assignments, if you want to receive the corresponding Personalized Assessments of your tutor, as well as the final Diploma and printed Portfolio at the end of your studies. Bear in mind that from day one you will be able to download all the PDFs, so that means you will, in any case, keep all that material with you when the twenty-four months expire. In order to keep the videos up-to-date and limit the hassle of downloading heavy files, videos can be viewed in streaming.
After the 24 months, there will be the possibility to remain as Alumni, having access to all the updates and extensions of the MasterCOURSE, by means of a symbolic Alumni annual subscription fee.
6. KEEP ON LEARNING
Access to lots of Video Assessments
As a member of the MasterCOURSE, you will also have access to the Video-Assessments of all the other students. This will provide you with hundreds of hours of enlightening videos containing a ton of insight for your own photography!
The learning material will never stop growing, since more and more videos will be added as more students join the program. The Video-Assessments of other students will show you how other creative photographers, working with other subjects and with different visual styles, use photography as a means of personal expression. Therefore, all the comments made by the Tutors to other students will be applicable to your own photography. This is, literally, a mine of learning material with hundreds of analyzed case studies waiting for you.
7. DIPLOMA, PORTFOLIO & FINAL ASSESSMENT
The materialization of your achievement
At the end of the MasterCOURSE you will be granted a Diploma certifying you have successfully completed the MasterCOURSE.
Further, you will receive a final assessment from your tutor based on your performance in the practical assignments.
In addition, a portfolio of the body of work you have put together with your tutor throughout the practical assignments will be printed and sent to you, representing your personal artistic expression.
All this will close the loop and become the end of the creative journey.
And then, what? As a student of the MasterCOURSE, you will also become eligible for other learning programs coming in the near future.
DIPLOMA / CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT
PRINTED PORTFOLIO OF YOUR WORK
FINAL ASSESSMENT BY YOUR TUTOR
ENROLL NOW IN THE MASTERCOURSE
“PHOTOGRAPHY WITH INTENT”
Pay less than the cost of a week workshop in the field... and learn 1'000 times more.
3’990.- CHF (Swiss Francs)
We only accept a limited number of students every year.
Please send us your application for enrollment and we will come back to you.
MasterCOURSE FAQ
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MEET YOUR MENTOR
Rafael Rojas (Master Hasselblad 2014, MA Photography, ARPS), is a Swiss and Spanish full-time artist photographer, lecturer, author, and creativity mentor.
He has been involved in teaching most of his life, first helping out young students, then teaching undergrads, and later as a university lecturer.
Nowadays, his teaching activities focus on helping photographers see the world with different eyes and use photography as a tool of personal and creative expression.
After seven years of work, the MasterCOURSE “Photography with Intent” has become the apex of his teaching career and his utmost contribution to the Community of Photographers.
“I want to help you create images that express the unique way you see, feel and understand the world around you. ”
LEARN FROM AN EXPERT
Rafael’s students can expect to find in the MasterCOURSE “Photography with Intent” the teachings of an expert, backed by:
Solid photographic expertise, with more than 30 international awards, including the prestigious Master Hasselblad award in 2014.
Recognised professional activity, as an internationally published and exhibited photographic artist.
Strong pedagogical background, based on many years of experience as a Post-Graduate University lecturer.
Extensive teaching experience, with more than 15 years of experience organising workshops all over the world.
Deep academic background, provided by a MA in Photography by Falmouth University, UK (Distinction).
Extensive writing experience, as a regular columnist and contributor to several international photographic magazines.
YOU ARE ABOUT TO BECOME A BETTER PHOTOGRAPHER!