Learn to make photo stories like a professional and get unexpected and lively images. Apply this skill to your everyday life when communicating with anyone, literally. Make self-portrait or interview to understand your own motivation and set the right goals.
Highlights
• Personal or small groups
• WhatsApp, Zoom
• 2 calls with theory and feedback
• Self-practice with editing
• From 400 euro/person, discounts for groups
• Starts today
Overview
Panoramica photo story course is a three-step life-improving experience with Irina Kudres, a photographer, and Ivan Kuznetsov, a journalist and writer, with 20+ years of creative and professional experience combined.
It’s simple: photo story (documentary photography and interviewing) is the engine of communication between people with the help of a camera. This is how connection, dialogue, cooperation and friendship are born. Therefore, learning to make photos and interviews (and get great results) is a skill necessary for everyone, not just professional photographers and journalists. But they are the best at it and ready to share their experience with you. That’s what this course is all about. What makes this different from others is that the authors doesn’t try to tweak personal methods of portrait-making and interviewing to fit everyday life, but leaves the genre in its purest form to capture its beauty. In other words, you will really learn how to do it as an experienced photographer and interviewer. Applying this skill to your everyday life when talking with anyone is your task.
The course is aimed at and will be useful to aspire photographers, journalists and writer, creators of various photographic and textual content and to anyone who likes to make photos of people and ask them questions at the same time — and above all, explore themselves through photography and interviews.
Your photo story is amazing. It made me think a lot about my own life.
— Vincenzo Aprea, boatman, Ponza island, Latina province, Lazio region, Italy
Authors
Irina Kudres is a photographer, photojournalist and visual storyteller. She is also a co-founder of Panoramica creative studio in the Italian Alps.
Portrait is Irina’s main creative direction together with documentary and event photography. She is an author of two projects and more than 20 photo stories in total, which can be found on her site Ikudres.com, as well as on her Instagram and Substack. She was published in PhotoVogue, Velolive.com, the Finnish DOCU magazine special issue, Peakvisor outdoor app site, L’Eco di Bergamo (Echo of Bergamo) newspaper and other international and local media.
She is an author of two portrait photo projects based, including “Woman and craft” and “Another odyssey“, as well as more than 30 portraits of other heroes, which can be found in her other sessions made in documentary and reportage genres.
Ivan Kuznetsov is a journalist, editor and writer. He is also a co-founder of Panoramica creative studio in the Italian Alps.
Since 2014, over the 10 years in journalism with a focus on outdoors, he has recorded more than 300 interviews in a variety of formats with a wide range of characters from world-famous travelers such as Russian marine biologist Alexander Semenov and street photographers such as Marcin Ryczek, Poland, to locals from remote communities at the end of the world, for whom it was an excuse to use email. His interviews have been published in local and international media and blogs: Bird in Flight photo magazine, My Planet TV channel, Sport Marathon outdoor store and many others.
He is the author of three book collections of interviews with 75+ people in total in three languages, which can be found on Panoramica’s Books page.
Pricing
One person: 400 euro
Two persons: 720 euro (with 40 euro or 10% discount for each)
Three persons: 1020 euro (with 60 euro or 15% discount for each)
If you are four and more persons, ask about additional discounts.
Contents
The course consists of three simple steps: Theory, Practice and Feedback.
Step 1: Entertaining theory
We will call two times for 1.5 hours each in WhatsApp, Zoom or other similar web service. On the first call, you’ll get an overview of making a documentary photography and on the second — of making an interview. Every time you will go through 10 simple steps, each of which is equally important: from choosing a topic and finding a hero to publishing and working with audience’s feedback. In the last 30 minutes of each call, you will ask questions.
Before. Select the publication and format
1 Find the subject and theme
2 Arrange the story
3 Research the subject and theme
4 Come up with a storyline / questions
5 Make the photo story
6 Achieve the desired result
7 Edit the photo story
8 Format the photo story
9 Publish the story
10 Get feedback
After. Befriend the hero
Step 2: Challenging practice
You’ll find a hero and a topic, and come up with the storyline. We’ll edit it in two or three rounds and make the final version. You’ll also get tips on where to publish your story if you don’t have your own blog (publication is not guaranteed, but we’ll try our best to make it happen).
Step 3. Honest feedback
At the end we will call again for 30 minutes. You will ask questions about making a portrait photos as a whole, including your new experience. You will receive final feedback from the author of the course. The bigger idea is communication, mentoring and maybe even a new friendship.
Portraits
Go to Irina’s portfolio to get an overview of her photographic and overall creative style, photo editing and general presentation of her work. Visit her Instagram and Substack to see how she shares her work and how her audience responds to it.
Read some of Ivan’s interviews: Bird In Flight photo magazine, Beatdom.com and other media. Check also the book “The art and science of street photography“. Here is his entire portfolio of more than 1,000 journalistic and other works for 35 leading local and international clients.
Reviews
You will be one of the first persons to take this course. A little later here will be reviews from students, but for now, we’ve collected some feedback from some heroes of our photo shoots and interviews separately:
My portraits are gorgeous. I like it”.
— Cristina Malvestiti, painter and artist, Bergamo, Italy
Ivan is an excellent journalist. In the interview with me, he did a very cool job and asked challenging, unconventional, and interesting questions that I had never been asked before. I wanted to think about them well and take the time to do so.
— Katerina Savina, a professional photographer from Tel Aviv, Israel
Thank you so much. I’ve already looked at the photos, and they’re beautiful”.
— Francesca Pontieri, pastry chief, Bar Pasticceria Chechè, Bologna
Being a sports journalist, I loved recording interviews. I really like the publication Ivan and I did for the site of the Moya Planeta (My Planet) travel TV channel about Georgia. Thanks for the cool, off-the-wall, and fun questions!
— Daria Kholodilina, ex-brand manager of Tourism Administration of Georgia and guide, Tbilisi, Georgia
The pictures are amazing. I like the light! Great work!
— Cláudia Alexandrino, illustrator and visual designer, Milan, Italy
Vanya is a rare master of a good interview. Not a freeloader like the popular “journalists” of today: “Here is a set of uninteresting questions, you answer them in writing, the editor will redo everything, and I will get a fee”, but a real and interesting person who is friendly with words. After talking to him, I stopped answering questions sent for all sorts of press. The bar has been raised.
— Alexander Ivanov, traveler, writer of 14 books, and eco-builder, Altai Mountain region, Siberia, Russia
The photos turned out very beautiful. It was a pleasure working with you.
— Liubov Bochkova, painter and ceramic artist, Milan, Italy
It turned out to be an awesome interview. The fact that it is based on the movie “The Motorcycle Diaries” with Gael García Bernal (2004) gives it some kind of special romance. Very cool stuff.
— Ilya Soev, author of the “Son of the Sence” travel blog, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vanya is an internet discovery, a master of words. He turns posts and pictures from our blog into magazine articles that you can be proud of. He has a talent for making any idea into a finished product: beautiful and packaged. He came up with (and literally forced) us to hold a street photography master class, which garnered only positive feedback from its participants.
— Mishail Varfalomeev, photographer in his studio “Kasha”, St. Petersburg, Russia
What a beauty! Very cool photos.
— Alina Musiienko, language teacher, Bergamo, Italy
All course data
• Title: Panoramica photo story course. A three-step life-improving experience
• Author: Irina Kudres, Ivan Kuznetsov
• Publisher: Panoramica
• Date of first publication: December, 2025
• Language: English
• Format: personal or small group in WhatsApp or Zoom
• Duration: about a week, including 4 calls with theory and feedback (4 hours in total) + self-practice with three rounds of editing
• Start date: today
• Cost: 400 euro/person, discounts for groups
• Result: your first or a new interview published on your blog or podcast, or external media
• Gift: one of Panoramica’s ebooks of your choice
Impact
By taking this course you are not only learning to ask questions like a professional journalist but becoming a part of Panoramica creative studio, a friend and a family member, as we say in Italy. Making this course possible we are helping to development of sustainable tourism in the Italian Alps and building a bridge between it and your place. This leads to positive changes both on a trail of your life and the life of a local communities.
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