Kōlab: Weekly Photo Challenges

Kōlab is a photography app built on one idea: your best shots come from practice, alongside other photographers who care as much as you do.

Find a Mission, add your shot and see what other photographers made of the same brief. Then put it on your story and show everyone how you got it!

• NEW: STORIES

Kōlab cameras
Shoot through a Compact, Film, Rangefinder, Sport, Instant and more, each with its own look.

Your story
Put your shots on your story in a Film strip or Instant print, add a Look, grain and texture, and tag the Mission you shot it for.

Ask
Can't choose between two shots? Ask which one. Not sure about the crop? Ask for crop suggestions. Want honest feedback? Add a Feedback sticker and the answers come to you only.

Reshare
Put any post on your story, with credit to the photographer, or send your story straight to Instagram.

• NEW: CAROUSELS

Add up to 20 shots in one post: a whole sequence or a set from the same day. Swipe through them in the feed and in full screen.

• HOW IT WORKS

Missions
A new brief every week, built around a technique, challenge or event. Follow the ones you like the look of, add a shot when you've got it ready.

Edit Reveal
Put the unedited image next to the finished shot. Drag the slider and show every creative decision that got made on the way.

Shot Recipe
The settings and gear behind every shot, so you can see exactly how another photographer got it.

Comment suggestions
Kōlab looks at every shot and suggests specific things another photographer could say about it, rather than "nice shot"!

Milestones
Collect cards for what you do: Missions finished, your first shot in a new genre, and a few secret cards to find.

A feed built around you
Kōlab's For You feed leans towards the genres and the photographers you care about, and it makes room for great shots nobody has commented on yet.

Shots at full quality
Upload high-resolution, uncropped images. Your work shows up the way you meant it to.

• WHAT MAKES KŌLAB DIFFERENT

- Missions give you a reason to go out shooting or editing
- Stories made for photographers
- See how other photographers edit, with Edit Reveal and Shot Recipe
- A Milestone card for every Mission and genre you shoot
- Your photographs are never used to train generative AI image models
- Built by photographers, for photographers

• WHO IS KŌLAB FOR

Photographers who want to get better, and would rather do it around people who get it.

Whether you are a dawn-chasing wildlife photographer, a weekend plane spotter or an all-weather landscape photographer, this is built for you.

Come and see what your photography does when it has somewhere to go.

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Recent changes:
Stories & carousels are here, our biggest update yet.
• Stories: put your shots on your story and see what everyone else is shooting
• A re-designed Home feed that puts the shot first
• Carousels: up to 20 shots in one post
• Kōlab cameras: Compact, Film, Rangefinder, Sport, Instant and more
• Looks, grain, texture and paper
• Ask which one, or add a Feedback sticker and the answers come to you only
• Reshare any post with credit, or send your story to Instagram
• Plus fixes