New to our Academy
Welcome. Here is how everything works.
However you found us, through the app, the website, or a free download, this short walkthrough shows you exactly where to go and what to do. No guessing.
We will only take two minutes of your time.
Step one
First, how do you log in?
On the app
A convenient way of staying in contact with our Academy when you are on the move. Available on the Apple App Store or on Google Play. Search for Art Photography Academy and download the app free of charge.
On the web
The preferred space if you want to be browsing photographs, feeds, and doing one of our courses.
Same account, same content, whichever you choose.
Step two
Your Library, your home base
Once you are in, go to your Library. Think of it as the map of everything you are part of. Your free content is waiting there now. And if you ever join a class, a course, or our Open Mic sessions, the access appears right here too, so you never have to go looking.
The Library always tells you what you are part of.
Step three
Our community, and an important word about it
Open Inspire Community and you will see a feed. If it looks a little quiet at first, that is completely normal. The real life of this place, the conversations, the feedback, the encouragement, opens up when you become a member, join a course, or come to an Open Mic session. Until then, you are seeing the entrance hall, not the rooms.
We are a community first creative space. It is all about keeping photographic artists connected. Relationship is in our DNA, and it always will be.
You are welcome to have a look around
What the Art Photography Academy has to offer
Free content
Already sitting in your Library, waiting for you. Guides, short films and a full masterclass, and not one of them costs a thing.
Open your Library
Open Mic sessions
Our monthly live get together, where work goes up on screen and gets talked about honestly. Come and show something, or simply come and watch.
See Open Mic
Our courses
From Getting Started in Art Photography through to the advanced programme. Self paced, and the library stays yours to return to for good.
See the courses
Creative Advisors
20 exhibiting artists in our network, each with their own page and their own work. They are the people who answer when you post something.
Meet the advisors
Featured Artists
Members who came through the Academy and are now exhibiting and selling their work. A new one is chosen every month by our curator.
See this month’s artist
Workshops and experiences
Create with us in the real world, in France, Swellendam, Marloth Park and Napier. Small groups, taught over your shoulder rather than from the front.
See the experiencesNo rush
When you are ready
Again, no rush. But if you are wanting to take your photography into a more creative space, and you want to understand a great deal more about our Getting Started in Art Photography journey, watch the free masterclass, or book fifteen minutes with Martin to discuss your options in pure photography and in art photography.
A very warm welcome. We are delighted to have you here.
The people behind the Academy
Martin
Ralf
Samantha