Photographing in the Social Landscape with Thomas Alleman (Hybrid Learning – Six Sessions)
This course explores the "Social Landscape"—the everyday environments shaped by people, culture, and the built world—through the lens of contemporary and historical photography. Students will examine how to photograph the familiar with fresh eyes, developing images that reflect, question, and connect us to the public spaces and shared experiences around us.
Creative Still Life with Tara Sellios (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
Explore still life as a poetic and expressive art form in this six-session online course with fine art photographer Tara Sellios. Through guided image-making, preliminary sketching, material exploration, and personal reflection, students will develop emotionally resonant photographs that speak to light, mood, and meaning.
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A Yellow Rose Revisited with Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)
This immersive three-day, in-person workshop invites photographers to explore identity, legacy, and social dialogue through still life photography, inspired by A Yellow Rose Project. Guided by project founders Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths, participants will engage in hands-on image-making, group discussion, and critical reflection—culminating in a collaborative visual response rooted in personal and collective narratives.
Creative Survival with Ken Merfeld (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
This class invites photographers to reconnect with creativity by exploring their personal environments, inner expression, and the world around them. Through conceptual assignments, group critique, and discussions on perception and appreciation, participants will expand their visual language and artistic mindset.
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In an age of fast scrolling and fleeting moments, this intensive weekend workshop invites photographers to slow down—and look deeper. Led by acclaimed documentary photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood, this in-person experience focuses on cultivating attention, presence, and meaning in visual storytelling.
Explore the craft of travel photography with Elia Locardi as he shares his signature techniques—including tilt-shift long exposures and streamlined post-processing—drawn from over a decade of photographing in 70+ countries.
Join photographer and author Claire Rosen for a three-day workshop exploring the imaginative process—from inspiration and idea development to creative problem-solving and visual storytelling.
Beyond the Bloom: Nature & Floral Photography with Tony Sweet (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)
Join fine art photographer Tony Sweet for a three-day journey into expressive nature photography, where creative techniques like ICM, multiple exposures, and infrared imagery transform the natural world into painterly visual poetry.
Into the Night: A Photographic Journey with Todd Hido (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)
Join acclaimed photographer Todd Hido for a rare, hands-on exploration of night photography, where students will shoot, edit, and refine images while learning how to craft mood, narrative, and emotion through light and shadow.
Discover how to move beyond literal representation and explore abstraction as a powerful visual language. In this immersive Los Angeles-based workshop, participants will use the city’s layered landscapes to develop personal, metaphor-rich imagery through techniques like reflection, multiple exposure, and intentional camera movement.