The Power of the Creative Journal with Benjo Arwas

Santa Fe Workshops collection of free online events, Creativity Continues, features a special winter’s evening with acclaimed fashion and editorial photographer Benjo Arwas for an exclusive look into the journals and creative entries that guided his commercial shoots over the years. For many photographers, the journaling process can be an opportunity to connect to your deeper creative vision, and this evening Benjo shares how this process directly informed his personal and professional work by allowing space for true experimentation and expression.

In this one-hour program, you explore the techniques that helped develop Benjo’s visual voice behind-the-scenes, with the special opportunity to view pages of his collages, experiments with form and text, paintings, drawings, mixed media work, and more. You see firsthand how an artist can expand upon a vision through hands-on exploration, taking their ideas in new and sometimes unexpected directions. Journals can also be a catalog of inspiration, sourcing the work of other photographers, artists, poets, and more, and he shares the influences that shaped his practice and how he referenced them in his journals. Finally, Benjo emphasizes the importance of continually challenging yourself as an artist and shares how journaling can be the perfect place to nurture your own creative growth.

For any photographer seeking strategies to connect to their inner creative voice and expand their practice, join us for this evening of inspiration to see the entries that guided Benjo throughout his creative career. He ends the evening with a Q & A session with the webinar audience. Even if you can’t make the live event, a recording of it will be available for all those registered.

Creativity Continues is a program that collectively develops creative voices by offering connection and encouraging expression. Because the goal is to engage all within our creative community, we encourage you to extend invitations and share Santa Fe Workshops Creativity Continues events with anyone who expresses an interest.