Eastern Partnership Photography
and explaining. If we have questions, we
can ask them online and immediately get
the answer. What needs to be added is
an opportunity of getting teachers’ comments on our works, regardless of the fact,
whether they were accepted or not.
Other students assess the school in a
very similar way.
Armine Balasanyan, a student from
Armenia, speaks about the opportunity
to get the opinions and consultations of
various teachers, while Xanim Aliyeva from
Azerbaijan particularly likes the online
form of studies: “You can visit the school’s
website any moment, watch the video or
read the task again, or download a photo”.
Since the online photo school was
founded within the framework of the Eastern Partnership, the teachers come from
the member states. Teachers from Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan
and Armenia are all experienced lecturers
and photographers.
Nino Mghebrishvili, Association of
Photographers of Georgia:
– Practice shows that students do not
necessarily choose teachers from their
country of residence. For example, certain
lessons of the teacher from Ukraine were
chosen by Belarusian, Georgian and Armenian students, and the Belarusian teacher
was at some point selected by students
from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, etc.
According to Nino Mgebrishvili, such a
peculiar choice is certainly an additional
advantage for students, since each country has its own traditions of photography,
which is reflected in different approaches
and teaching methods of different teachers.
For most teachers of photo-school.eu
online teaching is new and challenging.
However, both for students and tea