The Interplay of Music and Photography
with Leanne Trivett S.
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Course Description
For generations, music and photography have shaped an artistic landscape, each with the power to capture the essence of the human experience. Both mediums weave stories of love, loss, and transformation, offering a window into the emotional fabric of life. By exploring the interplay between sound and image, the pulse of music inspires and elevates the act of image-making.
Through the lens of movement and pattern in music, participants discover how to transcend the ordinary and transform ideas into profound artistic expressions. Together, these two art forms—each rooted in structure—form a symbiotic relationship that deepens our understanding of both.
This new online workshop with Leanne Trivett S. invites participants to explore how the structural elements found in both music and photography—dynamics, balance, harmony, lyric, improvisation, and rhythm—serve as conduits for emotional expression and self-discovery. With a focus on creative exploration, the experience blends lectures on influential artists, reviews of assignment images, and personalized coaching.
By studying the nuances of each medium, participants uncover how the compositional elements of music mirror the components of photography, offering new avenues for personal storytelling. In this immersive workshop, the intersection of sound and sight opens up fresh possibilities for self-expression, artistic growth, and creative inspiration. Join Leanne, with her deep roots in music and theatre, on a boundless creative journey where the art of photography meets the soul of music.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
This workshop is open to all photographers with a working knowledge of their camera, whether DSLR, mirrorless, or iPhone. Basic computer skills and the ability to download and edit images using software are necessary. The class focuses more on creative exercises and less on software.
Policies:
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For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
about
Leanne Trivett S. is a photographer and visual artist whose work moves between performance and stillness, using florals and self-portraiture to explore identity, emotion, and inner narrative. Her images exist in a space where the theatrical meets the intimate—constructed worlds that invite the viewer to linger, feel, and reflect.
Holding a BFA in Theater from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Leanne’s foundation in musical theatre and her career as a professional singer deeply inform her visual practice. This performative lineage surfaces through gesture, symbolism, and a heightened sensitivity to emotional tone, allowing her photographs to function as both portrait and performance.
Leanne is best known for her vivid self-portraits and expressive floral work, where color becomes language and the body becomes landscape. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, FotoFest in Karuizawa, Japan, Barcelona, Spain, and PH21 Gallery in Budapest, among others. Her photographs have been published in Shots Magazine, Art Ascent, Black & White Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine, and numerous exhibition catalogs and books.
As an educator and speaker, she shares her creative process in workshops with Santa Fe, while creating in her studio near Asheville, North Carolina. Recent solo exhibitions include The Dual Breath: Inhale Me, Exhale Me, The Woman Colour Built, Navigating in Traffic, and Pisces Dipped in Fantasy – bodies of work that continue her exploration of vulnerability, transformation, and the emotional resonance of color.
Website: leannetrivettsphotography.com
Instagram: @leannerockstar
