Your Travel Story, Printed: Creating a Photography Book
with Ann Orman
June 4 – July 9, 2026
Course Description
Your travel photographs are waiting on your hard drive, and now it’s time to turn them into something you can hold, share, and be proud of. In this new online workshop, you transform a collection of disparate travel photos into a polished book with help from travel photographer Ann Orman, your fellow workshop participants, and Blurb’s BookWright software.
This six-session workshop guides you through the entire creative process, from selecting your strongest images and shaping a narrative to designing a print-ready layout and preparing your final file for printing. Ann supports you as you find your visual voice and build a cohesive travel story that reflects your unique perspective.
You revisit your travel images and identify the themes, moments, and stories that matter most. Through editing, sequencing, and layout exercises, you learn how to build a thoughtful flow that engages the viewer and communicates your experience. As you work in Blurb’s BookWright software, you refine your edit while experimenting with page spreads, pacing, and design. Ann supports you throughout, helping you strengthen your storytelling, clarify your visual direction, and shape your project into a cohesive final sequence of images.
Throughout the workshop, you participate in group discussions and student layout reviews, receiving feedback that helps you refine your project. By the end of the five weeks, you complete a finished book that is ready to print, a tangible representation of your journey and your growth as a photographer.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Participants must be able to select and organize images using image-editing software prior to class sessions. You must also download and install Blurb BookWright before the first meeting. BookWright is a free program.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 5:00 – 7:30 pm (Mountain Time) on Thursdays starting June 4 and ending July 9 (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.
about
Ann Orman is a travel and commercial photographer based in Auckland, New Zealand. She started her photographic career as a fine art photographer while still working in the commercial world. Then at the age of 39, Ann fully immersed herself in photography, moving to Paris for two years to study commercial photography and travel, including spending two months in Africa.
Ann has had five solo exhibitions and eight group exhibitions, winning an award in New York for her Paradise series in 2020. Also in 2020, she published a large coffee table book called SPIRIT – Conversations with Creative Women. A celebration of 34 New Zealand female artists, the purpose of the book is to ignite other women’s passions for their arts and to enable them to make a living from it. More recently, Ann has published 23 travel books. Travel and discovering different cultures are one of her primary passions.
Books and printed images are an important part of Ann’s portfolio, with their ability to visually express who you are as a photographer. Her passion for photographing people, cultures, and landscapes from around the world is evident in Ann’s work.
Website: annorman.com
Instagram: @ann.orman.imagery
