Wiki Photo Workshop 2025 in Bishkek

Wiki Photo Workshop was a teaching event aimed on increasing quality of photos uploaded by Wikimedians of Kyrgyzstan. Previous event of that type was organized in Tashkent and it was considered successful while the overall quality of photos uploaded for the photo contests in Uzbekistan increased. The new one was scheduled for April 26 and 27, 2025. Workshop happened in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The venue was the People coworking at the 135A, Pushkin street.

Workshop was attended by 13 participants.

What it is

Our workshop contains 5 separated courses aimed to develop different sets of photographic skills. First 3 of the courses will contain 1 hour lecture part and 1 hour practical part where participants could use their newly obtained skills and present their works to trainers for evaluation. Last 2 courses will be 1 hour practical sets.

First course, «Basics of photographing» is planned to explain to participants the basic terms of photography and, that is more important, how do these terms apply to somebody's own photos. Participants will learn about lights, composition, focus, diaphragm, exposure and other parameters and conditions of making a photo and discover how to improve the result in some difficult conditions.

Second course, «Arhitectural photography» is aimed to form the understanding what is important when your object is a building or a small architectural form. Participants will get knowledge about perspective, angles, details and other aspects of architectural photograph.

Third course, «Nature photography» will form participants ability to find excelent views of nature objects to capture. Participants will learn about timings, macro and landscape shots and common practices while taking pictures outdoors.

Fourth course, «Images processing» will teach participants how to process images using common processing tools. They will learn how to make a messy photo better, how to create more fascinating and breathetaking pictures using nothing but your camera and computer.

Fifth course, «Working with Wikimedia Commons» will give participants an insight on how to upload images to the Wikimedia Commons properly, categorise files, create and maintain categories and what useful tools they can use in this work.

Organizers

Workshop is organized by the steering committee of Wiki Loves Earth and Wiki Loves Monuments contests in Central Asia. Local support is offered by local Wikimedia Community in Kyrgyzstan.

Our team

• 
  Nikolai Bulykin — teaching process organizer and «Images processing» course.
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  Elbek Khabibullaev — Kyrgyz language support and community liaisons.
• 
  Elena Zdanovich — «Basics of photographing» course.
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  Yekaterina Borisova — «Arhitectural photography» course.

How to attend

If you're interested to attend our workshop, it's rather easy to join it. Press the button below and write «Application to a Wiki Photo Workshop» in a Topic field and state in the Message field your:

• Legal name — it will be needed for a certificate;

• Wikimedia user name;

• Your date of birth — if you're under 18, you will be required to bring a permission from one your parents or legal representative;

• Do you have a camera (please, specify the model) and a laptop.

Please, notice that the workshop will be held in Russian, so all attendees are required to have good understanding of this language.

Apply

All your personal info will not be disclosed and is used only for a legal reasons. We have 30 positions opened for this time, all applicants will be noticed about the organizers' decision on their application.

Any activity involving minors will be held in compliance with the «Codex of Kyrgyz Republic on kids».