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!
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 the varying degrees to which AI can be incorporated into a photographic workflow and how these AI features work within the most common image editing software applications—Photoshop, Lightroom, and Capture One.
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.
Shelley Vandegrift provides participants step-by-step guidance in transforming photographs directly on the iPhone or iPad using Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop mobile—to create refined and expressive images without relying on a desktop workflow.
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.
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.
Led by photographer Tom Gaukel, this new workshop covers a variety of panoramic imaging techniques using DSLR, mirrorless and phone cameras, while also exploring various ways to stitch images together and enhance them in Photoshop, Lightroom and Capture One.
