For additional information about ICP's travel programs and registration, call the Education Department at 212.857.0062.

Into the Ether: Introduction to Wet Plate Collodion and Photographing in the Field—East Hampton, New York

June 22–24 | Joni Sternbach

This three-day workshop explores photography's 19th-century beginnings and contextualizes the process to discuss the relevance in today's changing photographic climate. Students learn the basics of how to pour collodion to make glass-plate negatives and positives: ambrotypes and tintypes. Working in small groups with reproduction cameras and vintage brass lenses, students have two days to practice making unique and instantaneous photographs before embarking on a day of shooting in the field.

All materials and lunch are supplied. Final evening BBQ. Limited to six students. The workshop is held in Sternbach’s studio in East Hampton. Students need to make their own hotel arrangements. Full payment is due by May 22, 2012.

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Spectacular New Mexico: Taos and Environs

August 18–26 | Harvey Stein

New Mexico has been described as a place of inviolate, pristine beauty, engendering an almost spiritual feeling for the land and the overwhelming sense of peacefulness. Since the 1880s, photographers and artists (Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter) have been irresistibly drawn to its landscape, brilliant clear light, and rich Native American heritage. Join us for a photographic adventure based at an historic and beautiful hacienda in Taos, one of the first European settlements in the United States. From Taos—a frontier outpost, Hispanic village, growing art center, and small western town—vans transport the group to the lofty peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the spectacular scenery of the Rio Grange Gorge, and the wondrous hills of Georgia O'Keeffe's Ghost Ranch area. We also photograph Native American pueblos, adobe structures, historic churches, and local festivals and spend a day exploring Santa Fe. Frequent lectures combined with daily photographic activity offer a rich input of technical and aesthetic concerns. Discussions include using light in meaningful ways, methods of approaching strangers, engaging the landscape personally and passionately, and the use of flash to augment "magic hour" shooting. We explore the special summer light characteristic of New Mexico during early morning and evening excursions. Participants may work with color negative film or digitally. Critiques are an integral part of the workshop. Historical and contemporary images of New Mexico, and especially the Taos/Santa Fe area, are shown for context and inspiration.

The workshop is open to all levels of photographers who have a good working knowledge of their cameras. Moderate hiking and walking are required. Limited to 14 participants. The workshop begins on Saturday evening, August 18 in time for a group dinner, and concludes on Sunday morning, August 26. The workshop fee of $2,600 includes 8 nights of lodging (double occupancy; $700 extra for single supplement), all breakfasts and most lunches. A nonrefundable $500 deposit must accompany your registration to reserve a space. Early registration is encouraged. Upon receipt of registration, participants will receive an information packet with travel suggestions and recommended materials to bring. Full payment is due June 1, 2012.

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Lake Como—Light of the Italian Lakes: A Digital Photography Workshop

August 21–31, 2012 | Monica Malpezzi Price

Join master photographers George Jardine, on the original development team of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Monica Malpezzi Price, Italy Photography Workshops Director, and Stuart Duncan Smith, Special Instructor with many years ofassisting on Lake Como workshops, at the Villa Cipressi, nestled in three acres of lush gardens on Lake Como, Europe's deepest lake in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. Students in this digital photo workshop learn the fundamentals of shooting RAW file images, as well as how to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to make dynamic photographs optimized for color, brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness, and dynamic range. On field trips, students explore the lake, its gardens and villas, open markets, and surrounding hill towns and immerse themselves for ten days in Italian life, landscape, and food.

The workshop fee of $3,850 includes lodging at the luxurious Villa Cipressi for 10 nights, (double occupancy with private bath and ample breakfasts), field trips, tuition, a welcoming reception and dinner, lunch in a mountain tavern, and a Northern Italian banquet on the last evening. Single rooms are available to early registrants on request, for a single room supplement of $1,200. Guests are welcome in this workshop; the companion fee of $2,850 includes shared lodging, breakfasts, all group meals, and field trips. Full payment is due by June 21, 2012.

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