Photography Workshops, Expeditions, and Educational Events
2025
Intro to Self Portraits
with Jennifer McClure
Saturdays May 3 & 10, 2025, Noon to 4 Eastern
HOW DO WE MAKE AN IMAGE OF OURSELVES THAT MOVES BEYOND SIMPLE DESCRIPTION?
What elevates a self-portrait into the realm of narrative or universal? How can we use our own bodies to illustrate a concept or an idea? This class will help students answer these questions and more by studying the history and techniques of self-portraiture, photographing at home, and reviewing photos together.
Getting Your Work Out - Sold Out, Wait List Started
With Aline Smithson
May 13 & 27, 2025, 6-8 PM Eastern
The year ahead reveals a fine-art photography landscape unlike any in the last thirty years of photography. The traditional path of getting your work out has changed, and the artist must think creatively about how to adapt to the new reality of creating and selling your art. Quite a few galleries have closed their doors and others have gone virtual. In addition, photo centers and museums are looking for work that speaks to this moment in time. It can be a confusing time to be a fine-art photographer and an important time to understand the shifting sands of submitting and promoting photographs
Our workshops and expeditions cover all aspects of photography and challenge, encourage and inspire the photographer in all of us. During the workshops, our complete focus is on you, the photographer.
Our instructors are working professional photographers who have a passion for sharing and inspiring. We recognize the commitment of time, energy and money it takes for you to attend a workshop and work very hard to be the best at intimately knowing our locations, providing a wealth of high quality information via excellent presentations and one on one help in the field, presenting extremely supportive and highly detailed image reviews, and doing all of this in an energy rich, supportive environment where inspiration and having fun are the hallmark of our workshops.
SE Center Workshops fully realizes that in addition to the education business we are in the inspiration business, and ultimately, we are a service business. We are here to serve you and your complete satisfaction with your workshop experience is our pledge. After all, the majority of our workshop participants are repeat customers and we know as well as anyone that we only get one chance to make a memorable first impression.
When we publish a workshop cost it includes everything. We won't surprise you with additional Materials Costs or Model Fees. If the workshop is all day at the SE Center, we provide lunch, snacks and beverages. Before you register you know the true cost of our workshops.
Past workshop leaders include Joyce Tenneson, Jill Enfield, Dan Burkholder, Richard Tuschman, William Earle, Michael Pannier, Carol Lawrence, Wendi Schneider, Kevin Holliday, Doug Beasley, Brandon Thibodeaux, Fran Forman, Linda Vallejo, Douglas Stockdale, Michael Foley, Meg Griffiths, Susan Burnstine, Laurie Klein, Marcy Palmer, Jeff Phillips, Aline Smithson, Manuela Thames and more!
Thoughts from previous SE Center workshop attendees
“So glad this finally worked out with my schedule. This is a wow workshop and you already have a lot of wow workshops, but this is over and above. THANK YOU for making these workshops with such great facilitators affordable.” - Diana
“This was a truly inspiring class…I have a list of 15 things to consider in my next steps of developing a life in image creating. I appreciate how you and the SE center has given these opportunities. It has been eyeopening.” - Susan
'“Thank you for putting this together and had a wonderful time. It was sincerely one of the best insightful discussions I've had in a long while. Looking forward to more!“ - Patrick
Looking forward to more!“I wanted to thank you again for hosting the workshop last weekend! It really was amazing and has given me a new perspective when photographing. Instead of feeling tired and dreading going to work on Monday, I actually felt happy and had energy.” - Marcia
“I will definitely attend more workshops at the SE Center and encourage others to do the same! You won't regret the time and money spent on the Center's professional workshops.”- Rebekah
"It was a real treat and great fun to spend the day at the SE Center for Photography and learning to make portfolio boxes taught by Carol Lawrence. I love that we were able to complete making a beautiful box in one session. Kudos to Carol for making a complicated task so enjoyable and satisfying." - Rosanne
“I now know that I can sneak out of my comfort zone and will not fall apart. I can describe, with confidence, what I like or dislike about a photo and why. It’s the tiny details that complete a photo.
I loved the small group! It was an honor to be with such strong photographers and feel respected. Would I come again? In a heartbeat! Would I travel somewhere else to work with you all? Absolutely! Will I refer my friends? Of course! Grateful for the opportunities you provided and I hope to attend more workshops in the future.” - Judy
”It was a WONDERFUL weekend and I can't thank the two of you enough for putting these workshops together. If I retain 10% of everything you threw at me, I'll be surprised so I guess I'll have to come back next year for a followup.” - Marc
“I had a great weekend over October 5th and 6th learning to guild photographs with precious metals. The workshop was taught by Wendi Schneider who is not only a great photographer and artist but a wonderful teacher. And as always Michael is a great host. We had a great group and produced some wonderful images with Wendi’s help.” - George
“Thank you Michael for hosting the workshop, and many thanks to Brandon for his knowledge, preparation and generosity. The SEC4P has become a really important resource for photographers and I am so grateful to have been a beneficiary of the opportunities it has provided.” - Lisa
“Thanks for hosting, it was a wonderful workshop and I got so much out of it.” - Kelly
“This class was just what I was needed and a big thanks to sec4p for organizing it.” - Anna
