Two years ago, something unexpected happened to me. I’d been photographing for years, long enough that I thought I knew what I was doing. Then I started writing about photography in a newsletter. This forced me to actually understand it. Not just the technical side, but more importantly the why. My newsletter gave me a structure to research, practice, write, and repeat.
I started looking at the work of more great photographers. I started to be more deliberate with my practice and developed new ways of thinking about photography that made me more connected to my work.
If you can relate to this then this could be for you:
You go out, you walk, you observe. You take photos. So far so good.
Later, reviewing them, something feels off: they’re random, incomplete. You compare yourself to other photographers and feel like your work is boring. You even wonder if you should just quit. You have a few shots you like, but they feel like happy accidents. You're not sure what your work is about, or if it's about anything at all.
This 4-week workshop is about moving you from confusion and disconnection towards clarity and intention. It's about discovering why you photograph, what you're drawn to, and how to build work that feels deeply yours. By the end, you won't just have better individual photos, you'll understand what you're drawn to, why you're drawn to it, and how to build around it intentionally.
This isn't about gear or technical tricks. It's about training your eye and connecting: to your subjects, to your intuition, to the why behind the images.
What we'll explore:
We'll touch on visual language basics (reflections, shadows, framing, scale…), but only as tools, not the destination. The real work is exploring the questions underneath: