Photography & Art Mentorship
Build your practice. Deepen your vision.
Photography can be a profession, an artistic pursuit, or a way of understanding the world. My mentoring sessions offer a personalized journey for photographers and artists who want to develop their skills, strengthen their professional practice, or explore new artistic possibilities.
Drawing on decades of professional photography, commercial creative direction, fine art, installation, and creative project development, I offer individualized guidance shaped around your interests, experience, and ambitions.
Whether you're beginning your photographic journey, building a sustainable photography business, refining your portfolio, or exploring the next evolution of your artistic practice, we'll develop a pathway that reflects your goals and the work you want to create.
Through practical assignments, experimentation, research, technical instruction, image review, and thoughtful critique, we'll build on your existing knowledge while opening new possibilities. The aim is not simply to acquire skills, but to develop the confidence, discernment, and creative direction to put them into practice.
Choose Your Mentoring Path
01. Photography & Commercial Practice
Build a practice that works.
Develop the professional tools, technical skills, and creative direction to build a photography business around your strengths, interests, and ambitions.
These sessions combine practical business development with photographic technique and creative problem-solving. From defining your services and developing distinct photography products to building a cohesive portfolio and creating a thoughtful client experience, we'll work toward a professional practice that is sustainable, intentional, and distinctly yours.
Areas of focus
Business development: Positioning, identifying your audience, pricing, and sustainable business models.
Product & service development: Creating distinct photography sessions, packages, services, and client experiences that reflect your work and professional goals.
Portfolio development: Editing, sequencing, and refining images to communicate your strengths and professional identity.
Technical advancement: Exposure, lighting, composition, equipment, portraiture, and the demands of professional assignments.
Creative direction: Developing a recognizable visual approach and communicating your value to clients and collaborators.
The goal is to build the structure, skills, and confidence to support the work you want to do.
02. Deepening Your Artistic Practice
Discover what your practice can become.
This is a space to look more closely at the artist behind the images.
Rather than focusing on the business of photography, these sessions center on your personal artistic practice: the ideas, instincts, experiences, and visual language that shape your work. Your existing practice becomes the starting point for discovering connections, refining your artistic voice, and expanding your vision.
Together, we'll examine what draws you to make images, what your work communicates, and what possibilities emerge when you look at it from a new perspective. Through image review, critical dialogue, research, conceptual development, and technical experimentation, we'll explore how your practice can become more intentional, cohesive, and unmistakably your own.
Areas of focus
Artistic identity: Recognizing the recurring themes, interests, and visual instincts that make your work personal.
Curating your practice: Editing and connecting existing images and projects to reveal a more definitive expression of your artistic voice.
Expanding your vision: Exploring new ideas, challenging familiar approaches, and opening possibilities within your work.
Technical exploration: Advancing your use of the photographic medium, including portraiture, photojournalism, light, composition, and visual storytelling.
Conceptual development: Moving from curiosity or an initial idea toward a more intentional and fully realized body of work.
Critical thinking & critique: Developing the ability to look closely, ask meaningful questions, and understand the what and why behind your work without fear of judgment.
The goal isn't simply to make stronger photographs. It's to deepen your relationship with your own artistic vision and develop a practice that continues to grow, challenge you, and reveal new possibilities.
Mentoring & Intensive Development
Focused Mentoring Session
90 minutes · $275
An intensive, one-on-one working session designed around a specific goal. We'll identify your priorities, focus on the work at hand, and develop practical strategies or creative directions you can put into practice.
Sessions may focus on building distinct photography sessions and products for your business, refining a professional portfolio, developing new services, or advancing your technical and artistic skills.
Included with your session
A complimentary pre-consultation to discuss your goals and determine how to best use our time.
An extensive intake form to identify priorities, clarify objectives, and prepare for a focused, productive session.
Come with a goal in mind. We'll use our time to focus, problem-solve, develop ideas, and establish practical next steps tailored to your work.
Six-Session Intensive
Six 60-minute sessions · $1,175
For those looking for more robust, hands-on support and a faster track toward advancing their business or artistic practice.
Across six individualized sessions, we'll establish priorities and build progressively toward your goals. Each session builds on the last, allowing room to explore ideas, develop skills, review progress, work through challenges, and put new approaches into practice.
Whether you're developing a more cohesive photography business, building a portfolio that communicates your strengths, expanding your services, or deepening your artistic practice, this intensive offers the continuity and focused guidance to move your work forward.
Included with your intensive
A complimentary pre-consultation to discuss your goals, current practice, and desired outcomes.
An extensive intake form to organize priorities, identify opportunities, and establish a productive direction for our work together.
Six focused sessions designed to support meaningful, sustained progress.
Ongoing Coaching
30 minutes · $75
For returning clients who want continued guidance, accountability, and support as their work evolves.
These shorter sessions provide space to check in, work through a specific challenge, review progress, or receive feedback as you put previous sessions into practice.
Whether you're refining a business offering, making portfolio decisions, navigating a creative challenge, or continuing to develop your artistic vision, ongoing coaching helps you maintain momentum.
Eligibility: Available after completing a 90-minute Focused Mentoring Session or the Six-Session Intensive.
Meet Your Mentor
Rosemary Daiross
Rosemary Daiross is a Seattle-based commercial photographer, artist, and creative director with more than two decades of professional experience across photography, editorial, photojournalism, branding, and fine art.
Her commercial work includes collaborations with King 5 News, ACT Theatre, Pike Place Market Foundation, Seattle Weekly, and a diverse range of political figures, musicians, actors, journalists, and artists. Her photography has appeared in magazines, newspapers, advertising campaigns, billboards, buses, websites, social media, and commercial marketing.
Working across portraiture, lifestyle, product, editorial, event, and branding photography, Rosemary brings a broad technical foundation and an understanding of how images communicate across different audiences, environments, and purposes.
Alongside her commercial practice, Rosemary maintains an interdisciplinary artistic practice incorporating photography, mixed media, animation, sculpture, and installation. Her work has been exhibited in Seattle galleries, including the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, where she presented work in 2022 and 2023.
Rosemary holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art with Departmental Honors and a minor in Art History from the University of Washington's School of Art + Art History + Design.
Her experience moving between professional assignments and personal artistic exploration informs her approach to mentoring. She understands both the practical demands of building a sustainable creative career and the deeper process of developing an individual artistic voice.
As a mentor, Rosemary brings technical knowledge, creative problem-solving, thoughtful critique, and a collaborative approach to helping photographers and artists identify their strengths, expand their skills, and develop a practice that reflects their own ambitions.
A Space to Curate & Create
My approach to teaching is grounded in curiosity, collaboration, and the belief that creative work develops through both practice and reflection.
I aim to provide a supportive, thoughtful environment where you can explore ideas, take creative risks, and examine your work honestly. Critique is designed to foster critical thinking, not criticism. Together, we'll ask questions, consider possibilities, and investigate the intentions and decisions behind your work without judgment or negativity.
Learning to look critically at your own work is an essential artistic skill. It helps you recognize what resonates, understand why certain choices matter, and make more intentional decisions about where your practice goes next.
Your ideas deserve room to develop. My role is to help you recognize their potential, strengthen your skills, and create a pathway toward the work you want to make.
Start With a Conversation
Every mentoring journey begins with a complimentary pre-consultation. We'll discuss your interests, experience, and goals, then determine which mentoring format best supports your needs.
For 90-minute sessions and six-session intensives, you'll also complete an extensive intake form before we meet. This allows us to identify priorities, clarify objectives, and organize our time around the work that matters most to you.
The result is a focused, individualized experience designed to make our time together as productive and meaningful as possible.
Build a practice that works. Discover what your practice can become.
