The Personal Landscape
with Tsar Fedorsky
February 10 – March 10, 2026
Course Description
Explore the art of personal expression through landscape photography with Tsar Fedorsky, a fine-art photographer whose own work often draws on images found near home. Tsar encourages each student to discover their own visual voice by choosing to take landscape photographs close to home, both literally and figuratively. Photographs that touch upon your personal lives are often the most powerful. The general goal of this workshop is to help you develop the technical and creative skills needed to produce memorable personal landscape photographs.
In this five-week online workshop, weekly assignments challenge students to work under a variety of different lighting and atmospheric conditions. It is by studying light over a period of time that you can better understand how light affects the feel of mood of an image and can dramatically change your personal photography.
This workshop is designed to allow students to experiment and discover what works best for their unique vision. In addition to finding your individual voice through active practice, Tsar offers weekly image reviews as well as slide shows of historical and contemporary fine-art landscape photography as inspiration. This workshop generates complex questions for the serious student and provides a framework for future projects.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Working knowledge of digital workflow and manual mode on your digital SLR or mirrorless camera. A tripod is helpful, but not required. Basic knowledge of Lightroom and Photoshop.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 5:00 – 7:00 pm (Mountain Time) on Tuesdays starting February 10 and ending March 10 (five 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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Tsar Fedorsky is a fine-art photographer based in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She received an MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford and a BA from Amherst College. In 2018, she received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Creative Arts in Photography, was a Critical Mass Finalist in 2015 and 2017, and received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2015. In 2023 and 2024, she traveled to Brazil as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar.
Tsar’s photographs have been exhibited and published nationally and worldwide. Her work conveys personal yet relatable narratives, including The Light Under the Door, published by Peperoni Books in 2017, and more recently Ghost Book, published by Kite String Press in 2023.
Website: tsarphoto.com
Instagram: @tsarfedorsky
