Serving as Witness to Your Life: A Photographic Practice
with Ibarionex Perello
February 4 – February 25, 2027
Course Description
Your personal spaces, relationships, and experiences all can be used launching pads for creativity, and this inspirational workshop invites you to do exactly that. With the guidance of Ibarionex Perello, host and producer of “The Candid Frame” photography podcast, you are immersed in a range of exercises that expand your familiarity with—and access to—the unique components of your life.
As you learn how your own specific point of view provides a uniquely valuable creative advantage, you find yourself making images that go far beyond simple documentation. Instead, they express complex human themes: love, loneliness, absence, transition, aging, loss, and any other aspect of life imaginable.
You embark on this journey of creation tethered to who and where you are in your life right now, and your exploration culminates in a tight selection of images that can serve as the beginning of a short- or long-term personal project.
By spending some time delving into the multifaceted richness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life, you discover that nothing in your experience is too ordinary or mundane to be transformed into a thoughtful, beautiful, and engaging photograph.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The workshop is open to photographers of all experience levels. Equipment can range from smart phones to DSLRs. The use of Adobe Lightroom is recommended but not mandatory.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 9:30 – 11:30 am (Mountain Time) on Thursdays starting February 4 and ending February 25 (four 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.
These live online sessions take place in the standard Zoom meeting format. Students can use their microphone and camera, see and hear the instructor and other students, and participate in live discussion and interaction throughout the sessions.
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 Cancellation and Transfer Policies for online programs.
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
Ibarionex Perello is a photographer, writer, educator, and host of “The Candid Frame” photography podcast, which he has produced since 2006. His work focuses on street and documentary photography, and his 30-plus years of industry experience include thousands of magazine articles and half a dozen books on photography. Ibarionex has led workshops throughout the United States and abroad, in countries including France, Japan, and South Africa. He currently lives in Bordeaux, France, with his wife, Cynthia.
