street photography courses

what we teach
and how we do it

Three ways to learn — depending on how you work best and what you need from the process.

Every session runs live online, so you get direct access to your instructor regardless of where you are. Group sessions give you the energy of shared critique; private lessons let you go at your own pace and focus on the specific things that actually slow you down.

Street scene photographed during a live session critique

group sessions

Live critique with a small cohort

Each session runs with 6–10 participants. You share work, get feedback in real time, and watch how your instructor breaks down other people's shots — which turns out to be just as useful.

Sessions cover the fundamentals of reading available light on streets, timing and anticipation, how to approach strangers in public spaces, and post-processing for documentary-style images. Meetings happen twice a week, 90 minutes each. You join a cohort that stays together for four weeks, so the critique gets sharper as people learn what to look for in each other's work.

starting from

$59 CAD

per session

6–10 participants
live feedback
90-min sessions
cohort format

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private lessons

One-on-one sessions built around your work

Private lessons are useful when you have a specific problem — poor timing, flat compositions, difficulty in low light — and you want to address it directly without working around a group curriculum.

Your instructor reviews your existing portfolio before the first session and builds the lesson plan from what they actually see. No fixed syllabus. The session follows the work. Each lesson is 60 minutes and can be booked individually or in a block of four. Camera type does not matter — the instruction adapts to what you shoot with, whether that is a mirrorless system, a compact, or a film body.

per lesson

$129 CAD

block of 4: $449

portfolio review
custom plan
60-min sessions
any camera

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full learning path

Eight weeks, structured from the ground up

The full path is for people who want to cover the whole arc — from reading a scene before raising the camera to editing and sequencing a finished body of work.

The curriculum runs eight weeks and combines group sessions with two private reviews at week three and week seven. Between sessions you receive shooting assignments tied directly to what the group discussed. The final week is dedicated entirely to portfolio edit — selecting and ordering your best work from the course. Past participants have used the resulting portfolio to apply to residencies and open calls, though that is entirely optional.

full programme

$199 CAD

8 weeks

8-week plan
2 private reviews
assignments
portfolio edit

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the people teaching

The instructors at Glowprobe came out of working practice first. Both spent years shooting on the street before they started teaching, and that order matters — the things they focus on in sessions reflect what actually gets harder when you leave a classroom context and go outside with a camera.

Sessions are small enough that students get genuine attention. When you send work for review, a person who has spent time on the same problems looks at it — not a generalized rubric.

Tobias Wren

group sessions & full path

Tobias has been photographing public spaces since 2014. He works primarily in urban environments and has led group critique sessions online since 2018. His approach centres on slowing down the decision-making process so students notice what they are actually reacting to before they press the shutter.

Rael Sundqvist

private lessons specialist

Rael focuses on one-on-one instruction and brings a background in documentary work to how she reviews student portfolios. She pays particular attention to editing — not just shooting — because she finds that most photographers improve fastest once they understand their own patterns of selection.

8 years of online instruction

Photographer working on the street during an assignment exercise

what we teach and how we do it