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Join SFW for our On Location workshops. Whether it’s in Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende, or any of our Pop-up and International programs, see what makes SFW On Location such a memorable experience.
with Zoe Peterson
March 22 and 23, 2025
In this hands-on, weekend workshop in Santa Fe participants learn to apply fine art practices to the medium-defying process of zine making with the option of printing images from the Workshops’ Digital Lab or working with mixed media, collage, and found imagery.
with Jennifer Spelman
April 4 – 15, 2025
Explore the lively markets of modern cities to the tranquil rice paddies of the countryside, from ancient temples to colonial monuments, Vietnam offers a diverse tapestry of culture, landscapes, stories, and traditions waiting to be experienced and seen through your lens.
with Christina Selby
April 7 – 11, 2025
Join Christina Selby in experimenting with a range of photographic techniques, including landscape, macro, wildlife, and astro-photography. This workshop encourages you to push your boundaries and cultivate new skills that enrich your storytelling.
with Massimo Bassano
April 9 – 17, 2025
Join National Geographic photographer Massimo Bassano in this travel photography experience exploring Rome, Florence, and Naples, offering a unique street photography perspective of these three cities woven together through thousands of years of joined history.
with Gabriela Campos
April 17 – 19, 2025
This April, join photojournalist and native New Mexican Gabriela Campos for this truly one-of-a-kind opportunity to document the Good Friday traditions and Pilgrimage to Chimayo, witnessing and photographing the events of the weekend up close.
with Benjo Arwas
April 25 – 27, 2025
This 3 day, popup workshop in Los Angeles provides a deep dive into brand storytelling for aspiring commercial photographers, advancing their business and creative skills to secure higher-paying commercial jobs and create collaborative partnerships with brands.
with Anna Rotty
April 28 – May 2, 2025
Join Anna for this week-long workshop in Santa Fe as she guides participants through iterative processes in photography and digital printmaking that push both mediums to new creative heights.
with Anne Eder
May 1 – 4, 2025
This hands-on popup workshop in the Boston area invites you to tap into your creativity while exploring New England’s lush landscapes to gather natural materials for image creation and experiment with crafting light-sensitive emulsions and photographic chemistry.
with Jari Poulin
May 15 – 18, 2025
Join Jari Poulin in the heart of New York City for this hands-on workshop that offers participants a chance to refresh their artistic vision or ignite a new passion while enjoying the unique appeal of instant photography through the lens of your Polaroid camera.
with Renee Lynn, Stephanie Johnson, Richard Martin, and Guests
May 20 – 23, 2025
In May, join us for an intensive four-day, art-filled retreat Santa Fe to learn from the current leaders in the abstract movement, Renee Lynn, Stephanie Johnson, and Richard Martin as well a guest presenters Valda Bailey and Shelley Vandegrift as they all help broaden your creative perspectives and technical skillset.
with Joe Perri
June 23 – 27, 2025
Join acclaimed editorial and documentary photographer Joe Perri in Santa Fe for a week of storytelling and exploration, leaving with several completed visual narratives and an expanded definition and practice of portraiture.
with Rick Allred
June 23 – 27, 2025
Guided by long-time instructor Rick Allred, this workshop is suited for beginning photographers who want to delve into the essentials of digital photography and acquire technical understanding as well as an imaginative eye.
with Cira Crowell
June 23 – 27, 2025
Hone your style, focus your skills, and deepen your concept of what it means to create your own dynamic black-and-white photographs with Leica expert Cira Crowell as your guide.
with Lee Anne White
June 23 – 27, 2025
Set in the nation’s oldest capital city, Santa Fe, transcend capturing mere images and delve deeper into storytelling and portraying a profound sense of place in this immersive photography workshop.
with Cotton Miller
June 30 – July 4, 2025
Learn the importance of color management, a proper printing workflow using Adobe Lightroom, and what it takes to make beautiful color or black-and-white digital prints on a consistent basis.
with Nevada Wier
June 30 – July 4, 2025
Join us for an unforgettable week in Santa Fe with photographer extraordinaire Nevada Wier in this new workshop exploring the basis of what makes an intriguing, visually alluring, and creative photograph, while expanding your photographic toolkit and learning to find color, light, action, and pattern in the world around you.
with Michael Clark
June 30 – July 4, 2025
Explore the creative fundamentals of portraiture by diving headfirst into a world of cowboys, ranch hands, cowgirls, and other classic characters of the iconic West with longtime New Mexico resident Michael Clark.
with Elena Dorfman
June 30 – July 4, 2025
Experiment with alternative approaches to landscape photography, working on location in a variety of environments—natural formations, archeological sites, and historical settings—taking “straight” photos and also using unconventional tools including prisms and gels.
with Jennifer Spelman
July 7 – 11, 2025
In this portrait photography workshop centered around the culturally diverse streets of Santa Fe, Jennifer Spelman, emphasizes personal connection, trust, and ease in creating the most expressive portraits that are representative of individuals and their culture
with Kathleen Clemons
July 7 – 11, 2025
Kathleen Clemons leads this hands-on workshop that explores the myriad ways our images of flowers can convey meaning, evolve emotion, and can be used as symbols to convey a wide range of human experiences.
with Julieanne Kost
July 7 – 11, 2025
Join Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist Julieanne Kost in this immersive workshop, discovering how color, tone, texture, and structure can unify even the most surreal scenes in the art of Photoshop compositing.
with Nick Merrick
July 7 – 11, 2025
This in-person workshop instructed by Nick Merrick held in Santa Fe is designed for photographers with experience in architectural photography and will cover both the technical and aesthetic elements related to architectural photographic techniques.
with Dan Burkholder
July 14 – 18, 2025
This summer join Dan Burkholder in this mobile photography workshop using the iPhone to dive into the flexible world of Raw files and how to photograph, edit, and stylize your images, taking you from casual captures to serious artwork.
with Jill Skupin Burkholder
July 14 – 18, 2025
Jill Skupin Burkholder leads participants in an technique incorporating inkjet printing on archival paper and painting with cold wax medium and oil paints, transforming photographic images into painterly fine art, rich with oil paint’s lush color and the tactile texture of beeswax.
with Kristi Odom
July 14 – 18, 2025
This new workshop with Kristi Odom is designed for photographers who wish to elevate their artistry by capturing the mysterious allure of wide-open desert skies, a dizzying accumulation of cloud formations, vivid stars, and the Milky Way.
with Xuan-Hui Ng
July 14 – 18, 2025
Discover and explore nature’s embrace in Santa Fe, New Mexico as Xuan-Hui Ng shares her techniques for photographing nature, including her use of natural light, shadows, reflections, rain, snow, and mist to simplify and add texture to the images.
with Matt Black
July 21 – 25, 2025
Join famed documentary photographer Matt Black for a week in Santa Fe focusing on developing and sharpening your photographic storytelling skills in this workshop designed for photographers seeking to clarify vision and purpose within their documentary work.
with Carlan Tapp
July 21 – 25, 2025
Join renowned landscape photographer Carlan Tapp this summer to embrace the visual intrigue of the desert southwest; exploring the desert’s intense sunlight, working with dramatic shadows and highlights, while searching for geometric patterns and textures.
with Shelley Vandegrift
July 21 – 25, 2025
Join Shelley Vandegrift in the enchanting landscapes of Santa Fe for a deep dive into photographic expressionism, learning how to photograph intuitively and explore post-processing techniques that craft your vision.
with Peter Yang
July 21 – 25, 2025
Acclaimed editorial photographer Peter Yang breaks down how to take your work to the next level, from brainstorming creative ideas to bringing them to life with thoughtful lighting and composition.
with Nadav Soroker
July 28 – August 1, 2025
In this workshop, photojournalist Nadav Soroker invites participants to experience the colorful world of Santa Fe, rich with unique characters and visual possibilities, photographing the locations and people that highlight the city’s incredible diversity and who make “The City Different.”
with Craig Stevens
July 28 – August 1, 2025
Investigate the possibilities that our tools offer us, from scale to tonality to contrast to the subtleties of monochromatic color and split toning as well as work with Adobe software (Lightroom and Photoshop), DxO plugins, and the ImagePrint Black RIP.
with Diana Bloomfield
July 28 – August 1, 2025
Longtime photographer and visual storyteller Diana Bloomfield introduces a diverse range of strategies that push the boundaries of the traditional book form, exploring the interplay between structure and content, dimensionality and the tactility in your process.
with Roxanne Bouché Overton
July 28 – August 1, 2025
This immersive in-person workshop with Roxanne Bouché Overton promises a holistic learning experience, combining classroom education, practical sessions for making new images, technical demonstrations, image reviews, and cultural exploration.
Pop-up:
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
with Eddie Soloway
August 5 – 10, 2025
Join Eddie Soloway as he helps you see the natural world with fresh eyes, moving into the world of abstractions, reflections, layers, and movement while exploring the breathtaking landscape and endless photographic possibilities of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
with Nicole Cudzilo
September 25 – 28, 2025
Led by photographer Nicole Cudzilo, this immersive transformative self-portraiture workshop transcends traditional photographic instruction and inspires students to move beyond conventional portraiture to embrace nature as a collaborator in their creative process.
with Jennifer Spelman
September 25 – 29, 2025
Renowned workshop leader Jennifer Spelman leads this visually rich workshop coinciding with “festival week” in San Miguel de Allende, one of the most important traditions, from colonial times to the present—the 100-year celebration of the patron saint San Miguel Arcángel (St. Michael).
with Renee Lynn, Stephanie Johnson, Philip Sager, and Guests
October 6 – 10, 2025
Expanded to five days and taking place in the artful city of San Miguel de Allende, learn from leaders in the abstract movement, Renee Lynn, Stephanie Johnson, and Philip Sager plus guest presenters Valda Bailey and Shelley Vandegrift each take a unique approach to visual storytelling, turning everyday moments into impactful images to expand the palette of photographic art.
with Stefan Jennings Batista
October 13 – 17, 2025
Join Stefan Jennings Batista for a week in Santa Fe learning the techniques and best practices required for bringing your digital images to life, taking them from creation to exhibition-quality presentations.
with Sam Abell
October 13 – 17, 2025
Join Sam Abell in this documentary photography workshop that incorporates review of existing work, daily field sessions in and around the colorful city of San Miguel de Allende, and one-on-one sessions.
with Reid Callanan
October 13 – 17, 2025
Explore one of the world’s most visually vibrant cities and make the leap from taking pictures to making and creating images that express the way you view and feel about the world in front of you.
with Christopher Michel
October 13 – 17, 2025
Join Christopher Michel in San Miguel de Allende to explore photographing people in their environment—making images of both models and locals in compelling settings, as you go deep in search of photographs with impact.
with Jennifer Spelman and Michael Amici
October 17 – 28, 2025
Redirect your approach to seeing and develop a broader understanding of the fascinating and sacred country of India.
with Keith Carter
October 20 – 24, 2025
Join fine-art photographer Keith Carter for an adventurous hands-on guide to contemporary skills and new post-production techniques to get your mojo rising.
with Elizabeth Opalenik
October 20 – 24, 2025
From iPhone to digital infrared, in water or the landscape, and from abandoned haciendas, fine-art photographer Elizabeth Opalenik inspires you to explore all the possibilities with gracious male and female figure and dance models who collaborate in expressing your intuitive create soul.
with Arthur Meyerson
October 20 – 24, 2025
Cultivate your visual sensitivity and heighten your awareness of color as you master how to gracefully capture those “decisive moments.”
with Julian Calverley
October 25 – November 3, 2025
This nine-day Scottish journey with acclaimed British photographer Julian Calverley offers the opportunity to advance one’s landscape photography while experiencing the world’s most breathtaking and varied settings. Package includes single accommodations, full daily breakfast, and seven group dinners as well as entrance fees, activities, and in-country ground transportation.
with Marcela Taboada
October 29 – November 3, 2025
Turn your lens to Oaxacan Day of the Dead celebrations, from altars and sand tapestries to graveyards full of candles and flowers.
with Amber Terranova and Guests
November 7 – 13, 2025
This unforgettable six-day workshop leads into the 28th edition of Paris Photo and provides guests with a backstage, curated week exploring Paris through the lens of photography, blending street photography with in-depth classroom sessions for personalized feedback.
with Eddie Soloway
December 2 – 7, 2025
Immerses yourself in creative ideas for making fresh images and learn practical insights into how to get what you see into a finished photograph on the road in Big Sur, California, south of Carmel with Eddie Soloway.