What Comes After the Rules?

This isn’t about learning the rules. It’s about what happens after you’ve outgrown them.

If you’ve made it this far, you already know your camera. You know composition. You’ve taken good pictures. People like your work.

And yet – something’s missing.

The Work is for photographers who feel that itch: the sense that good isn’t enough. It’s a 10-part program designed to strip back what you think you know, challenge your habits, and rebuild your practice from the inside out.

It’s not about gear. It’s not about trends. It’s about clarity, conviction, and creating a body of work that matters.

Most photography courses teach technique.

This isn’t one of them.

You can learn exposure on YouTube.

What you can’t learn is how to kill your darlings, see like an artist, and make photographs that hold up in a gallery – or in history.

I’ve spent three decades photographing people who shaped culture – from Cate Blanchett to Kylie Minogue – and building a body of work that’s in the National Portrait Gallery.

This course distills the hard lessons I had to learn the long way: how to move from safe to significant.

“You don’t become an artist by doing what works. You become an artist by walking away from it.”

The Work is coming

Who This Is For

  • You’ve mastered the basics – and you’re bored.
  • You’ve got a portfolio that people compliment, but you know it could go deeper.
  • You want to stop chasing likes and start making work that stands for something.

What You’ll Get

  • 10 PDF modules packed with provocations, exercises, and behind-the-scenes stories
  • The same frameworks I used to go from small-town beginnings to national collections
  • Optional add-ons: portfolio critiques and 1:1 mentoring
  • Access to an early-bird discount and priority booking

Ready to do The Work?

This course launches soon. Join the list for first access and an exclusive early-bird offer.

About Robin Sellick

Robin Sellick is one of Australia’s leading portrait photographers. His work is held in the National Portrait Gallery and the State Library of South Australia, and has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vogue and Who Weekly.

Now, through The Work, he shares the lessons, methods and mindset that transformed his career – for photographers ready to master their craft, take creative risks, and create work that endures.