Emotions and the Ephemeral World of Florals
with Leanne Trivett S.
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Course Description
Flowers are an ideal vehicle for expressing personal narrative through imagery. With their vibrant natural beauty, they invite photographers into an evocative realm of emotion and dreams, where relationships are revealed and beauty emerges.
A background in music and theater has equipped Leanne Trivett S. with the know-how to craft dynamic narratives, and she cultivates a safe and supportive environment for participants to explore new artistic approaches while offering gentle individual coaching to help deepen their creativity.
Our time together is spent in group sessions engaging in lectures, sharing multimedia work by inspirational artists, and reviewing participant work. We discover how the act of combining camera techniques, color, abstraction, writing, and collage can bring a unique, contemporary twist to our imagery.
By celebrating the imperfections in nature and letting our imaginations run wild, we make connections between subject and self, calling on emotion, experimentation, and storytelling to enhance our work.
Join Leanne for a deep dive into the ephemeral world of flowers. As you push your botanical images further than ever before, your photographs transcend the pictorial to become engrossing tales of art.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Working knowledge of digital workflow and manual mode on your digital SLR or mirrorless camera. Participants must be able to download and select images using image editing software for class sessions.
Policies:
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Recording class sessions using personal devices or third-party tools is not permitted. Session recordings are provided by Santa Fe Workshops and are available to enrolled students for two months after the class. This policy helps protect the intellectual property and privacy of both instructors and students.
about
Leanne Trivett S. is a photographer and visual artist whose work moves between performance and stillness, using florals and self-portraiture to explore identity, emotion, and inner narrative. Her images exist in a space where the theatrical meets the intimate—constructed worlds that invite the viewer to linger, feel, and reflect.
Holding a BFA in Theater from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Leanne’s foundation in musical theatre and her career as a professional singer deeply inform her visual practice. This performative lineage surfaces through gesture, symbolism, and a heightened sensitivity to emotional tone, allowing her photographs to function as both portrait and performance.
Leanne is best known for her vivid self-portraits and expressive floral work, where color becomes language and the body becomes landscape. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, FotoFest in Karuizawa, Japan, Barcelona, Spain, and PH21 Gallery in Budapest, among others. Her photographs have been published in Shots Magazine, Art Ascent, Black & White Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine, and numerous exhibition catalogs and books.
As an educator and speaker, she shares her creative process in workshops with Santa Fe, while creating in her studio near Asheville, North Carolina. Recent solo exhibitions include The Dual Breath: Inhale Me, Exhale Me, The Woman Colour Built, Navigating in Traffic, and Pisces Dipped in Fantasy – bodies of work that continue her exploration of vulnerability, transformation, and the emotional resonance of color.
Website: leannetrivettsphotography.com
Instagram: @leannerockstar
