Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Approach to Design and Aesthetics

Join photographic artist Richard Martin in this four-session online workshop aimed at challenging the celebrated ideas of perfection and beauty, introducing new possibilities and providing both aesthetic exploration of individual creativity and technical experimentation.

Creative Foundations in Photoshop

Shelley Vandegrift guides students through making precise selections, blending and layering images, enhancing mood through color and toning, and adding depth with textures and overlays using Adobe Photoshop.

Photography as a Meditation on Memory

This new online workshop with Gina Costa explores the pursuit of how objects or certain subject matter are tied to memory and how the choice to photograph these, consciously or subconsciously, is essentially an exercise in the search for meaning.

Breaking Through: Overcoming Creative Blocks

This online workshop focuses on building a sustainable creative process, guiding you through planning techniques, mindset shifts, and creative tools that encourage artistic flow regardless if you’re developing a long-term photo essay or simply experiencing a lull in inspiration.

TriColor Gum Alternative Process

Over the course of three days in Los Angeles, participants join renowned printmaker Mohan Bhasker on a creative journey to master the gum bichromate process, working in Mohan’s studio and darkroom, you have the unique opportunity to benefit from hands-on demonstrations, guidance, and feedback.

Photoshop Compositing: Taking a Step Beyond

Ryn Clarke guides Santa Fe Workshops alumni in this advanced compositing online workshop challenges students to push their Photoshop skills into uncharted territory. Learn techniques, such as intricate masking and blending, creating depth with blur effects, perspective, and layering

Santa Fe Noir

Join Helen Garber and experience the Wild West through a film noir lens, exploring the rooftops and dark alleys of Santa Fe—as well as a western film set after dark—during the week of October’s Supermoon, also known as the Harvest Moon.

Infrared: Maine Magic

Join esteemed photographers Laurie Klein and Shelley Vandegrift, for an immersive in-person workshop along the picturesque Maine coastline, discovering the magic and elevating your mastery of artistic infrared photography.

Looking at Photographs: A Retreat in Santa Fe

This three-day workshop in Santa Fe with photographer and collector M. H. Rubin offers you a chance to slow down with the unique opportunity to not only get up close and personal with countless classic works of 20th-century photography, but also explore lessons these masterworks give us in our own creative explorations.