I remember an important learning experience I had was when I was in physical therapy after a leg injury. I had a coach, who worked with me every day. He explained simply and clearly what the process would be like. He buoyed me up when I wasn’t in the mood to be there and he helped me measure my progress. My coach encouraged me to reach just beyond my ability to keep me challenged (yet safe). This is an ideal teacher to me, and these characteristics are what I would expect in a workshop leader. – Craig Varjabedian

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This is your opportunity to work one-on-one with an award-winning fine art photographer to continue your personal adventure with photography. Private Photography Workshops are custom planned, going where you want to go at the time of year you wish to be there and including class/studio sessions if needed. Spring in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Autumn along the Rio Grande, Winter at Ghost Ranch or Summer along the High Road in northern New Mexico – this is your chance to explore, engage with landscape and location, and photograph with Craig Varjabedian. As both peer and mentor, Craig will help you become the photographer you want to be, making the images of places you’ve loved or, until now, only dreamed of.

Previous Private Photography Workshops in New Mexico have included: Abiquiu, Ghost Ranch – Georgia O’Keeffe country, Taos, Santa Fe, White Sands, Bandelier National Monument, Fort Union, old Spanish missions and churches, White Sands National Monument and much more. Private Workshops are also available in Yosemite, the California Coast (Carmel, Point Lobos & Monterey area), Grand Teton National Park, Glacier National Park and the Antelope Slot Canyons.

Craig Varjabedian’s photographs of the American West illuminate his profound connection with the region and its people. His finely detailed images shine with an authenticity that reveals the inseparable ties between identity, place, and the act of perceiving. For Varjabedian, the art of photography is a receptive process driven by openness to the revelation each subject offers, rather than the desire to manipulate form or catalog detail. He achieves this intensely personal vision by capturing and suspending on film those decisive moments in which the elements and the ineffable spirit of a moment come together in exceptional and often startling ways.

“The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle,” wrote the late Beaumont Newhall, preeminent 20th-century photographic historian and author of History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. From his intimate portraits to expansive landscapes, Varjabedian’s images, made primarily in black and white, celebrate the drama and potency inherent in each subject’s relationship to the photographer. “The one thing that never changes is that moment of recognition when I feel the play of light, shadow, and texture resolve itself into something amazing,” Varjabedian wrote in his book Four and Twenty Photographs: Stories from Behind the Lens. Through this process he offers viewers a new way of seeingone that transcends mundane perception and expands our awareness of the potential in every moment.

In recognition of the significance and power of his images, Varjabedian has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the McCune Charitable Foundation, and the New Mexico Humanities Council. His photographs have been exhibited and collected by museums around the country including the William Benton Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Since 1986 Eloquent Light has offered exceptional hands-on photography field workshops and tours. We are out photographing every day to capture the light, color, beauty and character that is our world. Our workshops are for the novice to the experienced photographer—for anyone who is passionate about making great photographs while exploring the beauty of New Mexico, the American West and beyond. . .

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