Fine Art workshops focus on teaching the artist how to express one’s creative vision through the discipline of photography. Where Storytelling workshops teach students how to convey a visual narrative through an artistic lens, fine art workshops are foremost about the artist’s creative vision. If you have mastered the foundations of digital photography and want to use these skills to express your idea, come learn with the best fine art photographers on the planet here at Santa Fe Workshops.
Move beyond traditional interpretations of still life photography into a practice rooted in mood, symbolism, and visual storytelling as we explore how it can be built from personal history, collected materials, and layered symbolic references.
Participants move through a full cycle of photographic practice, conceptualizing, photographing, editing, and sequencing a small body of work while working alongside poetic prompts, texts, and your own writing, using both photography and poetry as active tools, letting each shape how you see and build the other.
Explore both historical and contemporary possibilities of overpainting and hand-coloring photographs, the different types of materials, and ways of working directly on photographic prints.
Fine-art photographer Al Brydon guides participants who want to create a cohesive body of work and bring greater focus and intention to their practice by clarifying their photographic philosophy and artistic aims.
In this new online course, photographer Eric Stein guides participants through a structured exploration of subtractive thinking, helping them refine images by removing distraction, shaping space with intention, and composing with greater control.
Jake Benzinger guides lens-based artists through the process of sequencing, designing, and conceptualizing fine-art zines through the development and creation of your own zine over the course of the four-session workshop.
Thibault Roland guides participants in this fine-art workshop, in exploring the diverse landscapes of northern New Mexico and learning conceptual thinking and the technical mastery to create landscape imagery that is visually compelling and emotionally resonant.
Eddie Soloway takes his Natural Eye workshop to the heart of Cape Cod, guiding participants into the world of abstractions, reflections, layers, and movement; then deeper into the realm of concepts and imagination, focusing less on objects and more on the magic of moments and the essence of places.
Reimagine and transform photographs through a variety of different mixed media possibilities, learning from four artistic masters who guide participants through the technical and creative considerations, processes, and different perspectives in harnessing a new way of thinking.
Fine-art photographer Julie Wang centers this new online workshop on mindful observation, using flowers, leaves, and small natural elements as subjects in exploring how photographs move beyond simple description and begin to carry feeling and presence.
