The Creative Portrait with Nick Fancher (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)
In this immersive three-day workshop, photographer Nick Fancher shares his signature in-camera portrait and lighting techniques, demonstrating how to create striking studio imagery using minimal gear and unconventional materials. Through hands-on experimentation and personalized guidance, students will explore multiple approaches to each technique while developing ways to incorporate them into their own visual style.
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Shaping the Photobook with Tim Carpenter (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)
This intensive three-day workshop helps photographers refine a photobook project through editing, sequencing, and group critique. Participants gain practical strategies for shaping narrative, structure, and pacing while developing a more cohesive and intentional body of work.
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From Memory to Story with Molly Wizenberg (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
In this class for creative nonfiction writers, we will practice tapping into our memories, rebuilding scenes from the past, and writing vividly from within them.
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Join photographer Miranda Penn Turin in a fun and creative workshop exploring the most versatile lighting modifiers available – their benefits, shortfalls and how to use them to your best advantage.
In this workshop, George Nobechi returns to LACP to lead an extended, more in-depth iteration of his photographic course in Japanese Aesthetics (Western Light, Eastern Wind). Set on the beautiful grounds of Balboa Park, San Diego, the location is filled with museums, botanical gardens, and numerous possibilities for participants to observe and make photographs incorporating a quiet, thoughtful approach to image-making.
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.
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.
The Creative Portrait with Rania Matar (Online Learning – Five Sessions)
In this workshop, we discuss all the elements of what makes a good portrait and delve into the process of working with people.
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