Most people learn to photograph.
Few learn to see.
You already know your camera. Now it is about seeing what is worth photographing.
Nine days in Palermo: hard light, streets and markets — and an image review every evening. Max 12 participants.
You can take the picture. The question is why.
You know your camera, your exposure and your composition. But that does not automatically make a photograph worth remembering. The hard part is knowing why to take it. That is where THE LUMINA METHOD™ by Per Valentin begins.
More photographs do not make a stronger photographer. Better decisions do.
- —You see more before you raise the camera.
- —You decide what goes in — and what stays out.
- —You take fewer pictures and make better choices.
- —You can say why a photograph works.
- —Your pictures begin to look like yours.
You do not leave with a formula. You leave with a way of working.
Seven questions that sharpen your choices.
The questions help you see the subject, choose what matters and understand your own photographs. You learn to use them in the book and in the LUMINA formats.
The dimensions unfold in the book and inside the LUMINA formats.
A photograph should have a reason to exist. What you leave out decides the image.
Four formats. One Method.
LUMINA Experience
Nine days on location with Per. One assignment every day. Image review every evening. Max 12 participants.
LUMINA Online
In developmentA future format: work with the Method from home. Not open yet.
LUMINA Light
Talks and shorter programmes for photography clubs, associations and organisers.
LUMINA Mentorship
In developmentWork one-to-one with Per on a series, your selection and the choices that make the photographs yours.
Daily practice. One Method.
Each day you get a photographic assignment. You photograph in the city, select your images and review them with Per and the group.
What you learn in the evening becomes part of the next day’s work.
That is why you can keep using the Method at home — on subjects of your own.
The city is our working space.
“I came home with a completely different understanding of images.”
“I see more. I take fewer of the pictures I usually take.”
Per Valentin.
Per Valentin has spent decades helping photographers understand their own choices. On an Experience, he sets the daily assignment, follows the work and reviews the photographs every evening.
The goal is not for you to photograph like Per. The goal is for your own photographs to become clearer.
You are not meant to copy Per's photographs. You are meant to understand the choices you make.
“My work is not to give you my pictures. My work is to help you find yours.”
Palermo is the open Experience.
Nine days, max 12 participants and Per present throughout: the daily assignment, the work in the city, the selection in the afternoon and the review in the evening. The city is not the destination. The city is our working space.
Parma
This LUMINA Experience will not take place in November 2026.
Palermo
Hard Mediterranean light, dense streets and street life that does not wait for the photographer.
Bologna
Nine working days with the shifting light of the porticoes, the pace of the markets and the concentration of the workshops.
Method, experiences and practicalities.
Be the first to hear when a format opens.
The groups are small and they do not open at the same time. Sign up and you hear first. It is not a registration.