65 Inspiring Photo Workshops Happening In 2016
Photographers are no strangers to learning new skills and technology. For our third year in a row, we’ve compiled a list of workshops to help you continue doing just that!
This roundup of photo workshops, organized by location and date, is great for the photographer looking to refine their technique. But on top of that, the benefits of photography workshops go far beyond learning new skills—whether the class is set in a local studio or requires traveling abroad to exotic regions—you’ll be learning from well-known photographers, meeting other professionals in the industry and adding beautiful and powerful images to your portfolio.
Check out the list below, and note that in most cases, the workshops listed are just a sampling of what each organization has planned for 2016. And of course, if you’re leading a workshop or know of one we missed, leave it in the comments section below!
U.S.
March
Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling with Deanne Fitzmaurice | Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico | March 13–18, 2016
Business of Photography Workshop with Todd Bigelow | Brooks Institute of Photography, Ventura, California | March 19–20, 2016
The Language of Light for Photographers with Leanne Hansen | The Image Flow, Mill Valley, California | Spring 2016
Macro Photography from Snapshot to Great Shot with Rob Sheppard | Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Palm Beach, Florida | March 21–24, 2016
April
Monochromatic Image: Digital B&W Photography | Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Palm Beach, Florida | April 4, 2016
Photo 101 with Brooke Schwab | Fieldtrip, Marfa, Texas | April 4–6, 2016
After Dark: Photographing at Night with Teresa Munisteri | Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas | April 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2016
One Day MediaStorm Workshop | MediaStorm, Brooklyn, NY | April 16, June 11, September 17, or November 12, 2016
Close Up: Macro Photography with Laszlo Perlaky | Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas | April 20, 23, & 27, 2016
Lightroom Foundations with Shane Srogi | Palm Beach Photographic Centre, Palm Beach, Florida | April 23 or May 21, 2016
DSLR Filmmaking with DSLRs with Vincent Laforet | Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, California | April 24–28, 2016
Bruce Gilden: Street Smart | Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, California | April 24–28, 2016
Sandro Miller Portraiture: Lighting for the Emotional Connection With Your Subject | Palm Springs Photo Festival, Palm Springs, California | April 24–28, 2016
May
Cyanotype Process: Printing Blue and Beyond with Max Kellenberger and Niniane Kelley | The Image Flow, Mill Valley, California | May 12–15, 2016
Photography Workshop Silo City with Mark Maio | The Visual Archaeology Workshop, Buffalo, New York | May 12–15, 2016
Undiscovered Moab Photo Tour with Bret Edge | Moab Photography Workshops, Moab, Utah | May 13–15, 2016
The Yosemite Early Spring Week Long Workshop with Phil Hawkins | The Yosemite Photography Workshops, Yosemite, California | May 16–20, 2016
Montana Ranching Experience with Keith Graham | Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula, Montana | May 19–22, 2016
Summer Visual Arts Course: Photography Intensive with Thomas Roma | Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY | May 23–July 1, 2016
Weekend Photo Workshop: New York City with Bob Sacha | National Geographic Expeditions, New York, NY | May 26–29 or September 29–October 2, 2016
June
The Yosemite Early Summer Week Long Workshop with Phil Hawkins | The Yosemite Photography Workshops, Yosemite, California | June 6–10, 2016
Destination Photography Workshop | Joe McNally, Kona, Hawaii | June 10–12, 2016
Alaska’s Inside Passage Photo Expedition with Michael Melford | National Geographic Expeditions, Alaska | Jun 12–19 or June 19–26, 2016
Maui Photo Expedition with Robert Caplin and Peter Lockley, Maui, Hawaii | June 14–19, 2016
Olympic Peninsula Workshop | Art Wolfe Inc, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, US | June 16–19, 2016
Photojournalism Today with Ron Haviv | Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, Maine | June 26–July 2, 2016
The Digital Photographer’s Toolbox: Two-Week Program with Josh Withers | Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico | June 26–July 8, 2016
July
The Poetry of Perception: A Master Class with Keith Carter | Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Santa Fe, New Mexico | July 3–8, 2016
Crater Lake Star Photography Workshop | Ben Coffman Photography, Crater Lake, Oregon | July 6–10, 2016
Platinum Palladium and Gum Bichromate Printing with Digital Negatives with Kerik Kouklis | The Image Flow, Mill Valley, California | July 15–18, 2016
Alaska Photography Workshop | Summit Workshop, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska | July 15–19, 2016
Colors of the Rockies with Jim Steinberg | The Arizona Highways Photography Workshops, Ouray, Colorado | July 24–28, 2016
Advanced Photoshop Retouching with Lee Varis | Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, Maine | July 24–30, 2016
Sports Photography Workshop | Summit Workshop, Denver, Colorado | July 27–August 1, 2016
August
Crater Lake at Night with Gabe Biderman and Matt Hill | Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Diamond Lake, Oregon | August 6–8, 2016
Capturing the Magic of Monsoon with Adam Schallau | Adam Schallau Photography, Grand Canyon | August 8–12, 2016
Glacier National Park with Tim Cooper | Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Glacier National Park, Montana | August 14–19, 2016
The American Landscape: Photographing the Unique Beauty of Maine with Shane Srogi | Maine Media Workshops + College, Rockport, Maine | August 21–27, 2016
September
Slot Canyons: Natures Sculpted Sandstone with LeRoy DeJolie | The Arizona Highways Photography Workshops, Page, Arizona | September 14–18, 2016
The Art of Processing with John Paul Caponigro and Seth Resnick | Digital Photo Destinations, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida | September 16–19, 2016
Adventure Photography Workshop | Summit Workshop, Jackson, Wyoming | September 17–22, 2016
October
The White Sands Landscape with Craig Varjabedian | Eloquent Light, White Sands, New Mexico | October 24–28, 2016
Autumn in Canyon Country Photography Workshop with Bret Edge and Aaron Bates | Moab Photography Workshops, Moab, Utah | October 27–30, 2016
Zion’s Majesty: Color, Composition and Light with Kit Frost | Kit Frost, Zion National Park, Utah | October 27–30, 2016
Fun in the Dark: Night Photography with Beth Ruggiero-York | The Arizona Highways Photography Workshops, Apache Junction, Arizona | October 29, 2016
The Business of Nonprofit Photography | Momenta Workshops in partnership with Leica Camera, Miami, FL or Washington D.C. | Dates TBA
November
Sports Shooter Academy 13, Orange County, California | November 2–6, 2016
International
April
A Taste of Food Photography with Neil Corder | Gulf Photos Plus, Dubai, UAE | April 15, 2016
Portrait with Richard Dumas | Eyes in Progress, Paris, France | April 20–23, 2016
Copper Coast Photography Workshop with Athena Carey and John Dunne | Light, Land & Sea, Waterford, Ireland | April 22–24 or September 16–18, 2016
May
Galapagos 2016 with Art Wolfe, Tom Mangelsen, Frans Lanting, and Justin Black | The Masters of Nature Photography and Visionary Wild, Galapagos | May 6–14, 2016
Project South Africa 2016 – Working with Nonprofits | Momenta Workshops in partnership with Leica Camera, Cape Town, South Africa | May 29–Jun 11, 2016
June
Language of Light Seminar with Joe McNally | Irish Professional Photographers Association, Dublin, Ireland | June 19, 2016
July
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop | Foundry Photo Workshop, Capetown, South Africa | July 10–16, 2016
August
Tanzania Photo Safari with Annie Griffiths | National Geographic Expeditions, Tanzania | August 13–23 or September 17–27, 2016
September
Bali: Island of the Gods | Momenta Workshops in partnership with Leica Camera, Bali | Fall 2016
Discover the Glacier Country Photo Tour with Petr Hlavacek | Nzicescapes Images, Westland National Park, New Zealand | September 14–21, 2016
China Photography Expedition with Fritz Hoffmann | National Geographic Expeditions, China | September 16–29, 2016
Documentary Photography with Patrick Zachmann | Eyes in Progress, Berlin, Germany | September 29–October 02, 2016
October
Rainforest and Limestone Photo Tour with Petr Hlavacek | Nzicescapes Images, Paparoa National Park, New Zealand | October 3–10, 2016
Birds of Ecuador with Dan Suzio | Dan Suzio Photography, Ecuador | October 12–23, 2016
Visual Storytelling with Ed Kashi | Eyes in Progress, Amsterdam | October 21–24, 2016
December
Mystical Myanmar Workshop 2016 with Art Wolfe and Gavriel Jecan | Art Wolfe Inc., Myanmar | December 6–16, 2016
Foto Ruta, London or Barcelona | various
GPP Photo Tour – Sri Lanka with Abbi Kemp | Gulf Photos Plus, Sri Lanka | Dates TBA
Composite This! with Luca Lombardi | Gulf Photos Plus, Dubai, UAE | Dates TBA
Are you running a workshop this year? Leave a link in the comments below with information!
Thank you so much for honoring our workshop on this outstanding list of learning opportunities! We welcome any questions about our workshops, scholarships, and private tutoring opportunities from the awesome folks reading this blog. Please feel free to visit http://www.momentaworkshops.com to find our contact information. #SeizeTheMomenta!
Wildflowers and Waterfalls in Yellowstone National Park with Greg Vaughn & Tom Kirkendall, July 3-5, 2016. https://www.yellowstoneassociation.org/program/new-photographing-wildflowers-and-waterfalls?a=item
For us, most of 2016 is sold out, but we have openings in the latter part of 2016 on our Iceland, Olympic NP, Acadia NP, Scotland, Arizona, Cuba, Italy and Slovenia workshops for 2016. All the details are here:
http://muenchworkshops.com/workshops
We’ve been teaching photographers and taking them to the coolest places on the planet since 2007, with over 100 successful photo workshops completed worldwide, and we have over 30 open workshops on offer including most of our 2017 schedule. We hope you’ll take a look!
I am leading a multimedia workshop with Gary S. Chapman in Honduras in October. Here is link to it http://workshop.stanleyleary.com
Both of these gentlemen are passionate, caring photographers with a mission to help the world be a better place. We have enjoyed working with them with Momenta Creative for many years.
-Jamie Rose, COO
Momenta Group
Thanks Jamie!
Thank you so much for featuring my workshops in your roundup for 2016! While those listed above are popular field workshops I am leading this year, I have also been working very hard on a new one-day seminar called Photography as Art. With art history as a reference point, I have created this seminar for individuals who want to spark their imagination and discover how to make an artistic statement through photography and create intentional art no matter where you are. For more information & scheduled cities: http://artwolfe.com/create
Thanks again!
The FOCUS Conference
http://www.focusconference2016.com/
FOCUS 2016 is an intense, 2-day conference for photographers serious about their businesses.
If you have an interest in making your photography business successful and profitable, this conference is for you. We won’t be covering the mechanics of shooting or editing. We will be focusing on the aspects of business that increase your profits, giving you advice that will give real results, and providing wisdom from years of experience in photography sales. We are confident you will come away with inspiration, confidence, and solid strategies to take your business to the next level and make it more profitable than you dared to imagine.
Why Choose FOCUS 2016?
FOCUS is the only conference of its kind, concentrating on the business of photography first.
Learning sales, marketing, communication, branding, pricing and business is best done in person!
FOCUS is taught by real working photographers, not rock-stars, not professional speakers.
Last year’s participants have ALL gone on to improve their business and dramatically increase their sales.
FOCUS is not corporately sponsored; you won’t find any hard-sell tactics trying to get you to buy more stuff.
Access to an exclusive Alumni Group on Facebook after the conference so your learning can continue with your fellow students and speakers.
FOCUS speakers are qualified far beyond their camera skills; many have degrees, certifications and recognition in business, education, marketing and teaching.
Go home with practical solutions and learning that you can apply to your business the very next day.
FOCUS is the only way to learn from 10+ photographers with solid businesses focused on full-service (in-person sales) style photography.
To take individual classes from each of our speakers would cost you more than $15,000!
FOCUS allows you to tailor your learning experience, with classes specifically intended for those new to full-service retail photography, and for those who are very experienced.
Washington DC in the spring is gorgeous! (Bring your camera!)
What a great resource. Am heading across later in the year and was looking for workshops to attend during my time there. Great post!
Peter,
If you are interested in using your photography as a force of change, please feel free to reach out to our staff at info@MomentaWorkshops.com. We would love to have you join us during your trip to the US or on one of our international trips!
Warmly,
Jamie Rose
COO, Momenta Group
This is a great list and thanks for the support. We would like to be part of it.
We are heading to Cuba May 5th to the 12th 2016, just a few seats left
http://www.cameravoyages.com/trips/cuban-lifestyle
We also have a great line-up for the fall.
http://www.cameravoyages.com/trips/
Camera Voyages
http://www.cameravoyages.com
Travel like a journalist, live like a native, shoot like a professional.
Camera Voyages is a collective of well-known professional photographers who also know the value of becoming embedded in exotic cultures. Because of our extensive experience and familiarity with the countries we visit, our itineraries are full of unique photo opportunities, including visits to local trades-people, artists, farmers, restaurants and events. But our schedules are also always flexible, so we can take advantage of the inevitable unscheduled opportunities as well. We feel this is, by far, the best way to find exciting new stories you can tell with your cameras.
917-992-1453 ask for Bruce
Together with local guide Thorarinn Jonsson, I’m running a winter workshop in Iceland at the end of November.
http://www.hanslogren.com/iceland-winter-workshop
As always, a great resource – my Italy Photography Workshops were included in a previous edition of this list. For 2016, I have just a spot or two left for workshops in June in Tuscany, Rome and the Italian Lakes http://www.photographitaly.com
Would love to make the list so please check us out! We are going to Havana in May and July – Just like Obama-and their are New York City Street Workshops with more to come…inspiring is a word we hear a lot…
http://www.thepassionatephotographer.com/workshops/
This list is awesome! Calibrate Retreat is also one to add to the list! This is Calibrate’s launch year with our first retreat happening April 16 at Emerald Lake Lodge in the Rocky Mountains of Canada with our keynote speaker (and ridiculously talented photographer) James Day (coming all the way to Canada from Australia)!
http://www.calibrateretreat.com
Spots still available!
There are so many great workshops happening this year! Thanks for all of the comments with additional workshops. Keep them coming!
What a great variety of workshops! This spring I’m offering a workshop featuring the wildflowers and landscapes of northern Michigan:
http://davidstimac.photoshelter.com/#!/p/michigan-wildflowers
January 2017 dates tba for epic numbers of wintering waterbirds at Bosque Del Apache, New Mexico:
http://davidstimac.photoshelter.com/#!/p/bosque-del-apache
David Stimac
http://www.davidstimac.com
I highly recommend the landscape and nature photography classes offered by Point Reyes Field Institute at Pt. Reyes National Seashore just north of San Francisco, CA. Most are one day or one weekend (Friday evening-Sunday afternoon), are reasonably priced, and the weekend classes usually include accommodation. From having helped run many of these classes, I can say all the instructors are excellent. Of course I especially recommend the two weekend classes I’m teaching in April and May, 2016: “Creative Photo Weekend” and “Dramatic Shoreline Photography”. Please go to http://www.ptreyes.org for more info.
Looks awesome. Check out outdoorphotojourney.com for Canadian workshops as well!
What a fantastic list of amazing places and photographers to learn from! I have two spots open on my Iceland EQUINE Photo Tour this June….join me to photograph the Icelandic Horse in the beautiful, iconic landscape of Iceland. We stay at a horse farm in the south where you will enjoy the Icelandic culture firsthand: http://phyllisburchettphoto.net/iceland-tour-2016/.
We have been running a series of photography tours in India, the country we specialize in. Details at http://www.darter.in
‘Fall Landscapes in Zion National Park’ (Oct 30 – Nov 2) with Michael DeYoung. Details at http://deyoungphotoworkshops.com/zion-photography-workshops/utah-fall-landscape-photo-workshop/
Building Confidence. Inspiring Creativity. Making Breakthroughs.
We’ve rebranded to Active Photo Tours and still lead a Fall Landscape Photo Tour in Zion National Park and Grand Staircase. More info at
https://activephototours.com/southwest-utah-photo-tour-zion-grand-staircase/
Excellent list!
Also to consider: Firefly Institute
http://www.fireflyinstitute.com
– Photo camp for women photographers (intermediate and beyond)
– 20 different hands-on classes with top teachers, including Julieanne Kost (Adobe Digital Imaging Evangelist), Pei Ketron (Instagram sensation with almost 1M followers), and Michelle Turner (award winning portrait/wedding photographer)
– Intimate size of 42 attendees learn, live, and eat together in a charming, summer camp-style setting with fun evening activities
– A portion of proceeds goes to Ripple Effect Images (http://rippleeffectimages.org), a non-profit started by National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths which helps women and girls globally through photography
Only a few more spots available!
Thanks very much for putting this together. It is definitely a helpful list for my annual travel! 🙂
I have one to add: Kathmandu Inside:Out (KIO)!
I participated in this visual storytelling masterclass in Kathmandu in November last year, led by Mr. Edwin Koo. Besides learning the craft of photography, it was also a rare opportunity for me to get very close to the local community (every participant was partnered with an English-speaking local buddy who helped to remove any cultural/language barrier we had throughout that trip).
One thing I find very meaningful about this workshop is that: through my participation, the program also sponsored another local who otherwise wont be able to afford to attend such classes. (hence the workshop was FOC for them)
I think this program is sustainable in a way that it gives back by helping to build the local photography community. So here I am recommending it! I see that you dont have anything on the list for November yet? This is it!
This year they run from Nov 25 to Dec 3, 2016. Link to the eight-day workshop: http://www.kathmanduinsideout.com/
(Non-related but…) this is the story I weaved in that workshop 😛 : http://www.kathmanduinsideout.com/portfolio/the-long-road-home-2/
Happy taking photo and safe travel everyone!
Great list of work shops I have been to silo city in Buffalo with Mark Maio it’s an amazing place to shoot
We are hosting a San Diego workshop in september and an Adironack State park Fall color workshop the last weekend of September into October.
Check out. http://www.explorephotographyworshops.com
Thanks for letting us post here
What a wonderful, comprehensive and thoroughly inspiring list of photography workshops! We would love to be included in your international section.
We are an brand new photo tour company specialising in Bulgaria. Each of our tours is led by three instructors of diverse background and experience including a photographer for National Geographic, Bulgaria and a professor of Fine Arts. Bulgaria itself is a yet-to-be-discovered landscape photographer’s dream destination crammed full of crashing waterfalls, exquisite rock formations and soaring mountains. Our tours involve extensive travel throughout the country and include daily intensive on-location instruction, guided editing sessions, group critiques and final presentations. If you are interested in some place fresh and different and exciting, please check out our website: http://photoholidayce.com/
This is such a wonderful roundup of outstanding photography workshops.
To add to the list….we are a team of professional photographers based in the very beautiful San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. We hope to have created something unique to the realm of photography workshops with SEEKworkshops. Informed by our careers as professional photographers based in NYC, we bring years of experience to SEEK, merging the worlds of photojournalism, documentary photography, studio still life, food, and fine art.
Our full-time presence and beautiful new campus here in San Miguel de Allende afford us the opportunity to build ongoing community around the process of image creation for all skill levels. We offer various workshop formats in addition to the standard week-long model, as well as one-on-one mentoring, allowing for more engagement with our participants to support the ongoing evolution of their work.
In addition to a love for the craft of photography both as an art form and means of creative expression, we have a shared philosophy about the power of photography as a tool in personal evolution. Although beautiful outcomes are always welcome, we believe the PROCESS of photographing, if approached rightly, tremendously heightens the quality of experience and engagement with the world around us, functioning as a means for increased self-awareness and ongoing evolution of ourselves.
By learning how to SEE better, we are more awake and alive and able to bring fresh perspectives to all aspects of our lives. All of our instructors, accomplished in different realms, share and encourage this vision. Our goal is to help you capture your truest seeing.
We look forward to welcoming you into the SEEK community, and sharing this remarkable city with you–the sights, the culture, the cuisine, and, best of all–the people. Please check out our website for upcoming dates in 2016/2017: http://www.seekworkshops.com.
Thanks for sharing such a long and wonderful information or list at one platform of inspiring photo workshops happening in 2016. Looks like I have a busy few weeks ahead of me!
Hi,
First of all, thank you so much for this list – really useful for us globetrotters and photography enthusiasts.
I also have one to add to the list: https://www.destinsparks.com/
I’ve been on quite a few workshops with Destin Sparks, landscape photographer from Australia. He still shoots with Film Camera and favors well-executed timing capture and natural light to any sort of post processing (which, according to me, sets him apart from other talented photographer).
Anyway, he took us to Hamilton Island, Tasmania, Great Ocean Road in Australia and also the South Island in New Zealand. Every single workshops I’ve been to was an occasion for me to get out of my comfort zone, improve myself whether as an amateur photographer or a traveler. Since he knows perfectly the lands and the areas, he enjoys taking people off the beaten tracks (with safety of course) and shows them the natural beauties.
It’s a shame I moved back to France, I wish I could keep joining him on his trips.
Have a look at his website for more infos.
Cheers guys,
Isabelle “from Paris with love”
Hi,
We are excited to announce our new photo tours and workshops in Latin America, Magical Light Adventures. After living in Mexico for more than six years, we know our participants will love working with us.
We have more than 35 years of professional photography experience, have shot several assignments for National Geographic and will offer small group travel.
Our first trip is in Chiapas in March 2017. Hope you can include us in your list.
http://www.magicallightadventures.com
Thanks,
Michael & Jennifer
I really appreciate the insight here in this post and confident it’s going to be helpful to me and many others. I’m wondering if you or anyone else has additional sources for me to read further and to be able to dig a little deeper?
Thank you for sharing wonderful workshop photography. it definitely the helpful list. The Photographers Blog also arrange the photography workshops. Upcoming photography workshops 19-20 August 2017.