© Doug Beasley

Revitalize your photography while exploring your relationship to your subject, your camera, and yourself. Through photo exercises, assignments, and daily field trips in and around San Miguel de Allende, participants learn to deepen their visual awareness while clarifying their approach.   

This workshop provides a unique opportunity to rethink expectations of what it means to see. We work on cultivating simplicity and making more powerful photographs, building on the notion that a photograph is not “taken” but made. We become better photographers by becoming more in touch with our inner selves and using that awareness to deepen our connection with our subject, whether it’s a person, place, or thing. We also address issues of lighting, composition, depth of field, and exposure.

Doug sparks inspiration with a balance of conversation, meditation, readings, poetry, and other activities that invite creativity. Photographic exercises and assignments are designed to nurture each participant’s internal and external experiences and growth. Afternoons are spent pursuing photographic adventures in the field with Doug.

Instructor(s)

Doug Beasley explores the spiritual aspects of people and place in his photography. In “Sacred Places,” an ongoing body of work, he investigates what is considered sacred, spiritual, and ritualized in our own and other cultures, and how the sacred is recognized and expressed in everyday life. Another ongoing project, “Earth Meets Spirit,” explores the inner relationship between self and nature. Past bodies of work include “Disappearing Green Space” and “Sacred Sites,” which looked at the Lakota Indians of South Dakota, the Mayans of Guatemala, and shamanism in Peru.

Doug’s work has been exhibited internationally and is widely published in magazines such as The Sun, B&W, Shots, and PhotoVision. His first book, Japan: A Nisei’s First Encounter, describes his journey to his mother’s homeland. This is Doug’s sixth year teaching at The Workshops. His Web site address is www.douglasbeasley.com.

Who Should Attend:
his workshop is open to photographers at all levels of experience seeking to expand their creativity and vision. A portfolio is not required for admission; however, a working knowledge of your digital SLR camera in manual mode is essential. Please see General Information for Mexico.

Accommodations Available:
Double accommodations included in Package Price. Single supplement is $300 additional.

Tuition & Fees:
The package price for each workshop includes tuition; group transportation as necessary; model and location fees if applicable; double occupancy hotel accommodations for seven nights, Sunday through Saturday nights (single supplement available for $300 additional); most meals; and shuttle transportation between the airport in León and San Miguel.
Package Price: $2,450.00