From Beginning to Advanced: Two Black-and-White Fall Workshops

If Black-and-White photography and printing are your interests, we offer two exciting new workshops this fall. For the beginner to intermediate we offer Black and White: Capture to Print with Susan Hayre Thelwell Sept. 22-27 and for intermediate to advanced we offer George DeWolfe's Black and White Master Printmaking workshop Sept. 29-Oct. 3. This date for George's workshop is already full so we are offering a second option for this workshop Dec.1-5. Bring your B&W workflow up to speed and take both workshops! (There is a $100 discount for those who sign up for both Susan and George's class.)

In other news, George DeWolfe has been quite busy this summer and finished his new book Digital Masters: B&W Printing: Creating the Digital Master Print a week or so ago. Look for it out out in May 2009 or pre-order on amazon.com now.

SFPW Hosts 1st Annual Adobe Summit

SFPW hosted 22 top collegiate photography educators and administrators from across the country as part of the first annual week-long Adobe Summit on August 3 - August 9, 2008. Adobe Evangelist Julianne Kost wowed the group with Lightroom 2.0's upgrades, changes and the best practices for using this dynamic software in the classroom. Adobe educator Bob Rose informed participants as to technological changes within the industry. Mac-on-Campus representative Bill Gratton explored the newest photography hardware available.

The Summit, arranged and coordinated by SFPW Digital Programs Director Jerry Courvoisier, was a great opportunity for photographic educators to meet and dialogue about ways to improve their programs and how Lightroom 2.0 can play a large part in their training. A big thanks to program sponsor Adobe, to Mac Group, to Julianne and Bob and all the educators who made the program such a success.

Jerry's New Book: Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and Photoshop

You've captured great images with your DSLR, now what?

Jerry Courvoisier, Director of Digital Programs, is pleased to announce his
new book entitled "Lessons in DSLR Workflow with Lightroom and
Photoshop" This book provides an easy-to-follow roadmap for importing,
organizing, and editing your images using the best features of Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. The combined power of using
both programs—automation with Lightroom and specialized processing in
Photoshop—offers a complete and flexible solution for both serious
hobbyists and professional photographers.

Loaded with tips and techniques from a seasoned photographer,
including a pre-shoot checklist for camera settings, Jerry delivers a
digital workflow system that allows you to spend less time at your
computer and more time behind the camera capturing great images.

The book is available from Peachpit Press and you can receive a 35%
discount by entering code: SANTAFE during checkout. Plus, U.S. customers
get free shipping!

SFPW Celebrates 20 Years of Photographic Education

In 2009, we celebrate twenty years in photographic education. To honor this milestone we will produce a calendar illustrated with images made by workshop participants and staff. This calendar will be twenty months long starting January 2009 and ending August 2010. To choose the twenty calendar photographs, we invite you to submit images made in Santa Fe or San Miguel de Allende during a workshop.

All entrants will have a chance to win one of eight $500 tuition certificates to a workshop in Santa Fe or San Miguel in 2009 or 2010. All photographers with images selected for the calendar will receive 20 calendars. Proceeds from the sale of the calendar will go to the Workshops scholarship fund.

Send prints (8”x10” or smaller) or digital files (300 dpi at 8”x10”) to the address below by October 15. Entries will not be returned.

Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2008. There is no fee to enter, but a limit of 10 images per person please.

Mail entries to:
Santa Fe Photographic
Workshops 20th Anniversary Calendar
50 Mt. Carmel Road, #F2
Santa Fe, NM 87505

image © The first Santa Fe Photographic Workshops catalog cover, 1990 © John Arrison

Bob Sacha: MediaStorm Project

Bob Sacha, whom has taught with SFPW for the last two summers, is thrilled to announce the launch of his latest MediaStorm Project. Longing for Blue Skies, China's Environmental Challenge created with the Asia Society.

"It was an interesting return to the story of China for me (where I've photographed two assignments for National Geographic Magazine over the past decade) plus the chance to use a lot of very nifty photography. I produced and edited the opening segment http://www.asiasociety.org/beijingair/#longing-for-blue-skies plus had the chance to direct, light, shoot and conduct a 2 hour interview with China expert Orville Schell.

Inside the SFPW with Mike Donnor

After four seasons of working in Santa Fe and Mexico as a Course Assistant, Mike Donnor (known to us here simply as Donnor) heads to Chapel Hill, NC to organize, consult, and manage the studio of a participant he assisted in a workshop. Then it is on to New York. While we will miss his charm and easy smile we know he will make an impact on the photo industry there!

Digital Lab Assistant Susan Thelwell caught up with him during a lunch break while he was assisting Raul Touzon last week.

S: Tell me about your path to photography and to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
D: I'm from Buffalo, originally. I was finishing my fourth year of school up in Plattsburg upstate and took a photography class as an elective and was hooked. I switched schools, switched majors for my sixth time and took two-and-a-half more years of school and graduated with a BA in Photography. When I first discovered photography I came here and took a workshop.

S: What did you take?
D: I took Doug Beasley. Zen and the Art of Photography. And I was watching the assistant and how this place ran and I thought… this is my dream job...to be right here. Really, this was my absolute dream job. So, the next summer I applied. Didn’t get hired…was crushed. Then I applied the following winter. Didn’t get hired…was crushed. And then I applied for the summer season the next year...two years from the time I was a participant. I had just graduated and they hired me as a Course Assistant, and I was through the roof excited. I got my dream job! And here I am.

S: What do you like best about living in Santa Fe?
D: The area. It's just beautiful. It's a great location. The people are cool. I love being able to have a little bit of a city life but also being able to be outside doing anything you can imagine. I love going to all the little towns around here- Madrid, Vegas.

S: What do you find most challenging about living in Santa Fe?
D: You know what? I miss seafood. That's about it. There's nothing challenging about living out here. It's really easygoing around here. What makes it that way are all the people.

S: You've been on staff for several seasons now. What's the best part of being a Course Assistant?
D: The people you work with, the full-time staff here, and the participants that you work with every week. It's really cool to see work evolve Monday to Friday. It's a high. I love it.

S: What are your favorite places to eat in Santa Fe?
D: Bobcat Bite. Done.

S: What do you order there?
D: Burger! Green chile burger. Medium rare. American cheese. That's all you need.

S: If you were an animal, what would you be?
D: A Lion.

S: What is the latest book you read or movie you saw?
D: I've been wanting to see Dark Knight but I haven’t seen it yet. Ah! Before the Devil Knows You are Dead. It is a sick, dark, twisted movie but it' s brilliant.

S: If you weren't here today, what would you be doing?
D: I'd be up at my pond. Fishing…I'd have a camera around my neck just hanging out.