We've updated dates and locations for our 2009 photography
workshops,
including new plans for a Travel
Photography at the Summit in Santa Barbara, CA, and a
new installment of the Adventure
Photography Workshop! We've confirmed most of the staffs
for our 2009 offerings and have begun updating packets, schedules
and other information that we've confirmed to date, but please
continue to check back. We've also released our updated 2009
Workshop Brochure and it's in the mail to our workshop mailing
list. Please be sure to explore our new Workshop
Multimedia page
to see video overviews and other content from our workshop,
plus our new YouTube
Summit Series Channel.
The summit is the highest point of the mountain, and the
Summit Series of Photography Workshops, including the long-running Fall
Photography at the Summit and the Sports
Photography Workshops, represent the pinnacle of contining
education in photography. We combine the best instruction
in photography and new digital technology, with the highest
level of creativity and the best career networking available
anywhere. This has led to over 25 years of Summit and Sports
Workshops with a reputation for being the best of the best.
What makes the Summit and Sports Workshops unique is
faculties of eight or
more of the best talent in the world: the best photographers,
the best teachers, the top editors and users of photography.
Throughout the week you will have the opportunity to get
varying opinions and perspectives, unique career counseling
and the ultimate networking that has jump-started many careers.
Each workshop features new instruction, new teachers and
the ability to demo the latest equipment in order to keep
pace with the continually changing world of photography.
Take a look at
our Testimonials page for what
recent attendees have had to say. We've also posted some thoughts
on the great networking available
at our workshops. Be sure to check out the Daily
Sessions page
to learn more about a typical day at any of our workshops.
The support of major manufacturers is unprecedented in the
workshop/conference world. Not only are Nikon, Apple,
and Lexar supplying
the latest equipment and software, but they are providing the
most practical instruction by top individuals in their organizations.
The photographers each stand at the top of their professions
in the worlds of publishing, art and marketing. The editors
have been pacesetters in magazines and books. The professional
instructors are considered the best. Attendees spend a
week getting to know the very individuals that are the most
influential of photography's ever-changing world. In the classroom,
in the field and socially in the evenings, is time with them
that would be unavailable in their New York or Washington offices.
The concept of team teaching also means that when you show
a portfolio or the pictures you did that day, you have a chance
for a second, or third and fourth, opinion. The instructors
are carefully selected for each workshop to represent a variety
of styles, techniques and perspectives, just as the students
bring unique and individual interests.
Each morning, specific topics are covered by staff members,
and the previous day's student pictures are projected and critiqued.
Afternoons are for photographing a project of your choosing
or for meeting with instructors for portfolio reviews and career
counseling. Additionally, there are often optional afternoon
instructional sessions that you may choose to attend. The evening
sessions feature a program by one or two of the instructors
who show their work and tell of their career. Following the
evening presentation, students and faculty can gather socially.
Each year, great friendships, and some careers, are made at
workshops.
The workshops are organized and managed by Rich
Clarkson and Associates LLC of Denver, a photography and publishing company
widely respected in American photography. The commitment to
ongoing education by Clarkson and his staff goes back to the
days he was a photographer under contract to Sports
Illustrated and Time magazines, director of photography of the National
Geographic Society and education chairman and eventually president
of the National Press Photographers
Association.
have been pacesetters in magazines and books. The