SFW Online is where you engage with The Workshops when you can’t visit us in Santa Fe. To offer you continued connection with our world-class instructors, we’ve created SFW Online. Our streaming classes are taught by the same instructors who inspire you in Santa Fe. Through a curated experience on Zoom, we offer a stimulating and creative learning community. While not the same as visiting us in person, SFW Online is the next best immersive experience. Join us!
Photographer Deborah Samuel guides participants, from beginner to intermediate, through the art of landscape photography using the camera they carry every day—their iPhones.
This online workshop taught by artist Alena Solomonova, explores photography as a physical, expressive medium, transforming images through layering, collage, transparent materials, reflections, and everyday substances.
In this new online workshop, visual artist Frank Lopez introduces you to the creative possibilities of Chromo and demonstrates how this innovative process expands on the tradition of the chemigram.
Participants learn to create less literal and more imaginative flower photographs, develop their own individual voice, and explore all aspects of photographing floras from equipment choices, composition, focus, and aperture selection, subject and background options, to the all-important lighting choices.
Artist Keliy Anderson-Staley guides participants through the process of creating handmade photo-based artist’s books, exploring how form and content work together to shape meaning as well as practical strategies for documenting, exhibiting, and preserving your work.
Interdisciplinary artist and educator Anne Eder introduces you to the creative possibilities of the historic Cuprotype process, and demonstrates how simple, accessable, and affordable materials can be to produce striking results from rich coppers to delicate pinks, deep purples, and subtle neutral tones.
this new online workshop explores the imperfect image… those moments that resist control and invite something unexpected. together, we consider photography not as a pursuit of perfection, but as an act of discovery, expression, and surrender.
In this online workshop, artist Eliza McKenna explores photography as a tool for self-discovery, inviting participants to create meaningful projects that deepen their relationships to memory, experience, and the stories they tell themselves.
Nikon Ambassador Kristi Odom, guides participants in exploring both the technical and creative sides of bird photography, from selecting the right lenses and camera settings for birds in flight to experimenting with techniques such as intentional camera movement, multiple exposures, and creative composition.
Daura Campos guides participants through cameraless photography, transforming everyday materials into expressive visual art using three techniques: phytograms (plant-based contact prints on film), lumen prints (light-exposed photo paper), and chemigrams (chemical manipulations on light-sensitive paper).
