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!
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).
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.
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.
