Education

Street life offers boundless opportunities to create vital, compelling photographs. Street photography remains one of the most dynamic and accessible forms of contemporary image-making, where chance encounters and observation reveal stories hidden in plain sight.

Join Harvey Stein and the Griffin Museum of Photography for a dynamic, small-cohort online intensive. With more than 50 years of experience photographing public life, and decades of teaching street photography, Stein brings a mentorship-driven approach rooted in curiosity, craft, and personal expression.

The workshop includes

This critique-based workshop is for photographers who already develop black-and-white film and have access to a working darkroom. The class focuses on how exposure, development, and metering decisions affect the quality and flexibility of black-and-white negatives, and how those choices shape the final print.

Using student work as the primary teaching tool, the course combines group critique with targeted technical discussion. While some concepts draw from principles associated with the Zone System, this is not a Zone System workshop. Instead, students will learn adaptable strategies that

Join artist and educator Anne Eder for a captivating two-day summer workshop at the Griffin Museum, where art and nature converge. You'll learn to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographic images using 19th-century and contemporary cameraless techniques: anthotypes, lumen prints, and phytograms.

Join artist and educator Anne Eder for a captivating two-day spring workshop at the Griffin Museum, where art and nature converge. You'll learn to create beautiful, one-of-a-kind photographic images using contemporary cameraless techniques: lumen prints, and phytograms.

Harness the natural light sensitivity of plants to make striking, eco-friendly photographs -- no darkroom or toxic chemicals required. These poetic processes celebrate the organic beauty of impermanence, experimentation, and nature's hidden colors.

You'll explore:

-- Lumen Prints - surreal, color-shifting images

About

The Griffin Museum and Linda Haas are pleased to offer this beginner-friendly course for anyone looking to gain confidence with their camera and develop a stronger foundation in photography.

Whether you are using a DSLR, mirrorless camera, or advanced point-and-shoot, this class is designed to help you move beyond automatic settings and better understand how your camera works. Through weekly demonstrations, discussions, image reviews, and assignments, students will explore the essential building blocks of photography including shutter speed, aperture, ISO, light, composition and

The Griffin Museum, in collaboration with Fran Forman, is excited to present this online workshop, which introduces a process for creating new imagery through a combination of photography, Photoshop, and AI programs.

If you're interested in creating imaginative, constructed images using both photographic sources and AI tools, this class is for you. We won't be aiming for realism, nor will we call these works photographs in the traditional sense. Instead, we'll explore image-making as a collaboration between your camera, your imagination, Photoshop, and AI platforms such as MidJourney

The Griffin Museum, in collaboration with Jill Enfield, is excited to present this online workshop, which introduces a process for creating digital negatives.

To make successful Platinum/Palladium prints, you need a negative that matches the size and tonal range of your final image. Unless you are working with a large-format camera, this means learning how to create precise, calibrated digital negatives, often the most challenging step in the process. In this live virtual workshop, Jill will guide you through the complete workflow for creating digital negatives for Platinum/Palladium

In this workshop, you will be guided through the conception, creation, and completion of your photobook (via a print-on-demand (POD) self-publishing platform.) You will also receive information on other options for publishing your book.

In preparing for this course, you will determine the subject of your photobook and identify some of the images you expect to include and possible text.

To begin, we will examine a book's structure and see examples of classic and contemporary photobooks. Through presentations, discussions, critiques, and assignments, you will work to refine your idea

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This class is now sold out. If you would like to be placed on the waitlist, please email Yana Nosenko at programs@griffinmuseum.org
Elevate your cyanotype work in this hands-on workshop exploring alternative approaches to the process. Students will experiment with gold leaf or imitation leaf, metallic paint, powder, and wax to enhance and transform cyanotype prints. Through demonstrations and guided practice, we will explore various application techniques, paper and media choices, and how the integration of metal and cyanotype can shape the meaning and visual impact of a work.

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