The Chromo Process
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.
Workshop Type: Online
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!
Flowers: Seeing Differently
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.
Handmade Photo-Based Artist’s Books
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.
The Cuprotype Process
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.
fragments of reality
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.
Photographing Your Unconscious Mind
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.
Birds as Art
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.
Cameraless Photography: Experiments with Photo Paper and Negatives
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).
Still-Life Photography: Vision & Craft
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.
Braided Lines: Exploring the Intersections of Poetry and Photographic Practice
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.