Photographic Adventures for Personal, Spiritual & Artistic Growth
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A SPIRITUAL APPROACH TO THE NUDE
Badlands of South Dakota
Assignment/Response Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
May 22 – 27, 2024
CLASS IS FULL!
Whether you are a very experienced people or figure photographer or you are a complete novice who has never worked with the nude, this is a wonderful opportunity to work with the figure in the landscape in a supportive, non-sexist, non-competitive environment.
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CREATIVE RENEWAL: MINDFULNESS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Maine Media Workshops, Rockport, Maine
Assignment/Response Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
August 5 – 9, 2024
Join us for a powerful week along the rugged Maine Coast exploring new ways of seeing and making photographs that emerge from a more personal and intimate place. We will learn to harness intuition, spirituality and even introversion, as creative forces in our art, life and photography. We revitalize our creativity by exploring the relationship between subject, camera and self.
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EARTH, SKY, WATER: FIGURE IN THE LANDSCAPE
Samara Ridge at Wolf Creek, St Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Also at Trade River Retreat Center & Wood River Retreat, Grantsburg, WI
with Douglas Beasley & Jenna Erickson
September 11 – 15, 2024
Water will be the dominant element and backdrop in this figurative workshop. This is an opportunity to work on figure in the landscape in a smaller group setting. Work collaboratively with our models to put intimacy and genuine emotional connection in your photography. Go past the easy route of putting ‘pretty’ people in ‘pretty’ locations creating pretty boring photos by making photos that delve deeper into the human psyche and spirit.
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SPIRIT OF PLACE: ANCIENT SOUTHERN ITALY
Art Center Padula, Padula, Italy
Travel/Destination Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
April 20 – 27, 2024
From our home base up of the romantic hillside town of Padula, we will spend time walking the ancient streets and out in the local countryside on daily photo pilgrimages. This workshop will have a relaxed pace fitting of the Southern Italian climate, with much room for serendipity and following individual needs, rather than racing around trying to see and photographing everything yet deeply connecting to nothing.
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PHOTOGRAPHY AS A PATH OF SPIRIT
SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Assignment/Response Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
October 24 – 27, 2024
Photography as a Path of Spirit is an invitation to redefine not only what is personally suitable subject matter but our whole approach to creative expression. Inspiration will be sparked by a balance of conversation, meditation, photo sharing, critiques, writing exercises, readings, poetry and more. Numerous photographic exercises and assignments designed and sequenced for both internal and external growth will help deepen our creative process.
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CREATIVE SUMMIT: BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA
Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota
with Douglas Beasley & Jenna Erickson
November 6 – 10, 2024
This is an opportunity to work on our image-making in a natural retreat-style environment with a small group of other photographers, maximizing individual attention and feedback. The group size will be intentionally kept small so we can dig deeper into strengthening our creative vision along with sharing our successes and challenges as image-makers in a changing world.
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2025
GUATEMALA; SPIRIT OF THE MAYA
Antigua & Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Travel/Destination Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
February 20 – March 1, 2025
Join us in exploring the Mayan world of Guatemala, a land where the indigenous people live as they have for centuries. The beautiful colonial town of La Antigua will be our home base and introduction to outdoor markets, crafts, food, and culture. You can expect much fun, light-heartedness, and serendipity while learning from Doug how to better respond photographically to the world around you and how to make more personal travel images with feeling, meaning, and depth.
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SPIRIT OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
Yunnan Provence, SW China & Shangri-La, Tibet
The Linden Centre
Travel/Destination Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
March 16 – 29, 2025
In Yunnan, we will touch the ‘old’ China that is elusive to most visitors and enjoy transformational experiences of a lifetime. We will photograph Taoist Temples (as well as temples with local gods unique to each village), gracefully decaying buildings, unique homes, elderly residents, exquisite landscapes, marketplaces, and ancient walled cities. Join us for a true immersion experience into authentic China.
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TOUCHING THE DIVINE:
A Spiritual Approach To Photography
An 8 Week On-Line e-Course
with Douglas Beasley
March 23 – May 25, 2025
Help find ways to integrate your spiritual practice (or even develop one) with your creative life. If you’ve attended one of Doug’s Zen & the Art of Photography or Emotional Landscape workshops and are looking to revisit or continue that experience then this is the class for you!
This 8 week e-course explores the intersection of spiritual expression and our photography and can be participated in on your own timetable. Blending both a spiritual and practical approach to not just making better photographs but becoming a better, more insightful photographer.
Any and all spiritual practices welcome. And you are even more welcome if you don’t have a spiritual practice, or have left one and not found another, or even just spiritual-curious!
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JAPAN: FORM & SPIRIT
Tokyo, Kyoto and Beyond…
Travel/Destination Workshop
with Douglas Beasley
Date TBD
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MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
with Douglas Beasley
Six Months or One Year
Invest in your artistic growth and move your photography or art career forward with a six month or one year Mentorship.
Work one-on-one with Doug to refine your creative vision, focus your photographic talents and advance your artistic and/or career goals with a custom-designed Mentorship Program tailored to your needs, strengths and weakness and what your photographic goals are.
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