Photography Workshops, Expeditions, and Educational Events
2026
Transform Your Images, Transform Your Voice: A Creative Post-Processing Workshop
With Shelley Vandegriff via Zoom
Jan 11, 18, & 25, 2026, 11-2 Eastern
Step beyond the technical and into the expressive world of digital post-processing. In this hands-on, four-session course, photographer and educator Shelley Vandegrift invites you to reimagine what’s possible in Lightroom and Photoshop—not through complexity, but through clarity, intuition, and creative play.
Diptychs, Triptychs and Beyond: Crafting a Visual Narrative Through Image Pairing
with Manuela Thames
Tuesdays & Fridays, March 3 -20, 2026, Noon - 2 pm Eastern
Via Zoom
The goal of this class is to develop one’s own vision for combining/pairing photographs and a better understanding of how to choose the right images, as well as to enjoy the experimentation, play and surprise that comes with this process. This workshop is for photographers of all genres including portraiture/self-portraiture, landscapes, street photography or still life. Get ready to be inspired and expand your horizon for creative image making!
Portfolio Review Toolkit Workshop
With Michael Pannier via Zoom
April 8, 2026
Portfolio Reviews are key events for photographers to show their work to industry experts. They offer valuable feedback, help build professional networks, and create chances for exhibitions, online showcases, book deals, and gallery representation. Attending can be challenging but very rewarding, and doing well means preparing your work carefully to make the best impression.
Creative Collage: Techniques for Visual Storytelling
With Sarah Hadley via Zoom
Tuesdays & Fridays, April 28 - May 8, 2026, 10-1 Eastern
Explore creative collage in this new online workshop with artist Sarah Hadley. Whether you're a beginner or want to improve, this four-session class teaches you how to mix photos, textures, and materials in new ways. Using your own pictures, magazines, and old images, you'll make unique and exciting visual stories.
Crafting an Exhibition Proposal
with Frances Jakubek
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 12-13, 2026, 4-6 pm Eastern
This two-day workshop will explore the process of preparing an exhibition proposal to share online. Instructor Frances Jakubek has fifteen years of experience working in non-profit, academic, and commercial gallery spaces and will work with students to refine an exhibition plan for a singular body of work.
Choosing Yourself as an Artist
with Michael Foley via Zoom
Dates TBD
In this workshop, you will learn and sharpen your skills to effectively get your work seen and discovered by your audience. I will introduce you to less traditional and unorthodox approaches to present and sell your work.
Practical strategies on approaching galleries, professionalizing your portfolio and having a clear artist statement will be addressed, as well as current trends in photography, discovering where your work might fit in.
Our workshops and photography classes 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 photography 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, Frances Jakubek, 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
