Meaningful Travel Photography and Visual Storytelling
with Raul Touzon
April 27 – May 14, 2026
Course Description
Traveling is everyone’s dream, but returning from our adventures with meaningful and powerful images is another story. Travel photography is an art that goes well beyond a few snapshots here and there. Your images must tell a story and convey that unique experience. If you are serious about improving your travel photography, then this online workshop is for you.
During the six group sessions, Raul Touzon presents and leads discussions on a wide range of travel photography topics, including how to best prepare for your trip and creative ideas once you arrive (gear, settings, and specialized techniques such as panoramic and night images). Raul also covers how to photograph cities and urban environments, produce striking portraits, capture magnificent landscapes, approach wildlife photography creatively, and embrace cultural celebrations. And last but not least, you explore how to sequence your images to tell a compelling visual story of your journey.
In addition to the wealth of information and insights into successful travel photography drawn from Raul’s almost 25 years in the field, you work with your existing travel images to put together a short travel essay that encapsulates the essence of this particular experience. Raul and your fellow classmates offer feedback and suggestions on both the images chosen and the sequencing of the storyline.
Join Raul and others who love to travel and bring back photographs that tell the tale of the places seen, people met, and adventures lived.
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.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 9:30 – 11:30 am (Mountain Time) on Mondays and Thursdays starting April 27 and ending May 14 (six online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Policies:
View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.
For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
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about
Raul Touzon is a documentary and natural history photographer who specializes in making images that convey what he refers as to “the eternity of the moment.” He has traveled extensively, from latitude 82°N to 82°S, documenting the seldom-visited corners of the planet. Raul has built a collection of dramatic photographs that have been featured in many publications, including TIME, U.S. News, The New York Times, National Geographic Books, and National Geographic magazine.
For almost twenty-five years, Raul has been a full-time educator and expedition leader, producing and leading his own workshops and photography expeditions around the world. National Geographic Creative, Getty Images, and Corbis represent his images. Raul’s list of clients includes the U.S. National Park Service, Apple Inc., and the United Nations for whom he documented their operations in Sudan.
Website: touzonphoto.com
Instagram: touzon.photo
