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Women as Art WORKSHOP DETAILS
Part 1 will set the stage in a group discussion format that will challenge you to draw inspiration from unexpected sources, to see women’s personalities, bodies, and energy as art, and to reimagine how you want your photography of women to feel. You’ll design an artistic assignment and creative roadmap for yourself that you will put into motion during part 2.
LUNCH- There will be a proper sustenance break in which lunch will be provided and connection with fellow photographers will be encouraged.
Part 2 is the application portion of the day in which photographers will take turns directing and artfully photographing our muses in a way that follows each one’s unique creative roadmap. After a short demonstration of creative techniques, we’ll throw away all of the technical rules and PLAY—making room for more impactful, unique, and artistic images. The goal will be to create work that is completely different than your peers. Within a month of the workshop it will be encouraged to submit your results for sharing with each other.
Photographers will walk away from this workshop with more clarity on their own artistic preferences and a roadmap for achieving their reimagined vision. You’ll develop a finer trained artist’s eye, an elevated level of confidence in creative shooting, and a toolkit bursting with ideas to better serve your clients and muses. The icing on the cake will be some amazing and true-to-you portfolio images and the act of falling in love with your own work again (or for the first time).
Refreshments and lunch will be included, and the class size will be limited for more personalized learning, connection, and individual shoot time with the muse(s).
Who it’s for:
Photographers of all experience levels who are wanting to celebrate women through their photography, photographers wanting to deepen the impact of their work, photographers looking to increase and diversify the collection they are presenting to their clients, photographers looking to photograph women more artistically and to creatively stand out, photographers searching for their unique artistic style, photographers wanting to fall madly in love with their own work.
Topics Covered:
-Drawing inspiration from unexpected places
-Photographing women artfully
-Discovering your true current artistic style
-Setting the stage with your client/muse for a successful and artful photoshoot
-Seeing and celebrating the human body in all its forms as art
-Training your eye to artfully compose figure details + creative crops
-Directing, posing, and lighting for your artistic preferences
-Experimenting with artful camera techniques
-Curating your work into it’s final form
Teaching Style:
Approachable, playful, and with no fluff…I create workshops based on what will serve photographers best. That means smaller groups, more personal direction, and dedicated time for each photographer to get unique images. I don’t teach photographers to shoot just like me, or like each other. Instead, I offer helpful suggestions and guide their inner artist towards exploring their own preferences.
My workshops are a welcoming, safe, and inclusive space. All experience levels are welcome.
Acknowledgement of Professionalism:
All attendees will be required to read a brief professionalism training and sign an agreement of professional behavior prior to the workshop. Photographers must be at least 21 years of age to enroll.
DETAILS:
Required Equipment: Photographer’s preferred camera body and lens. Photographers also welcome to bring experimental/play gear such as polaroids, large format, etc etc.
Cost: $2000 USD full registration discount
Payment plan option: 2 payments of $1150 USD. First 50% required to temporarily reserve seat, remaining 50% due on September 5th to guarantee seat. Please select this option when adding to cart.
*Seat purchase subject to 24 hour "pending approval” window for professional status verification.
Date: Tuesday, October 21st
Time:10:00am-5:30pm
Location:Private Studio, Milan Italy. Direct address will be sent to registered attendees.
About Kara Marie:
An American photographer based in northern Italy, Kara Marie Trombetta celebrates her 16 year career that encompasses her roles as both a privately-commissioned photographer, and a photography business educator and coach.
Where Trombetta’s art is concerned, she favors impactful black and white images as her medium of choice, using natural light and shadow to honor the human form. Her minimalist, honest, and customer service-centric method of capturing her clients allows each muse to feel exceptionally comfortable and to see the beauty in their authenticity.
With her personal evolution as a catalyst, Kara Marie has come to empower individuals not merely to discover confidence in their skin, but to realize that true confidence is not skin-deep. She regards the absence of clothing on her subjects simply as the removal of distraction, inhibitions, and facades rather than with the objective of creating “sexy” images. When asked about the classification of her work as “boudoir" photography when it appears to have evolved into something more multi-faceted, Trombetta gently explains: “I work to grant my muses the permission to be fully and naturally themselves without layers to hide behind, without the need for a glamorous makeover or extreme retouching, and also without the pressure to act provocatively. We can be sexy, yes. We are also intelligent, introspective, resilient, strong, funny, powerful, and emotional. I work to help my clients discover and celebrate their confidence. Limiting that expression of confidence to merely sexuality is doing a great disservice to the multitude of characteristics that one is comprised of. This is why I am working to redefine boudoir photography from a style that is traditionally intended to be stereotypically sexual for a very narrowly defined demographic, to an evolved narrative that is more of an artistic expression of the human spirit in its most honest natural form. I encourage a dialogue that emphasizes that everyone is a masterpiece.”
As an educator, Kara Marie’s teaching style is approachable for all experience levels and types of photographers. Her photography education has expanded to include coaching entrepreneurs in creativity, customer service, and general life balance. Delivering a multitude of workshops, keynote presentations, and online educational courses throughout her career, she continues her work to embolden her students around the world while nurturing her most artistic chapter yet.
Rave Workshop Reviews
*****
“I was nervous— like, forget how to adjust your ISO in a room full of professional photographers nervous. When Kara saw me fumbling with my camera, she didn’t roll her eyes. She waited patiently, then steadied my hand as I desperately attempted to take a motion blur photo. Though she inhabits the role of educator well, I got the sense that she was also one of us, dashing around the room, deliriously happy to be making art.
In a world filled with workshops that promise the moon and deliver mere stardust, this experience was a rare gem— a day so extraordinary, that it will forever hold a special place in my heart. I can’t thank Kara enough for exceeding every expectation and giving me an experience I’ll always point to as the day I finally saw myself as an artist.”
-Brooke Delp, workshop attendee
*****
“Artistically and mind-blowingly impactful. This day filled and overflowed my little photographer’s heart it ways I couldn’t even imagine, and it was my 2nd time doing an in-person workshop with Kara. I’m still on a high from it 2 weeks later. I am now more intentional with being an artist and seeing imperfection as art perfection without the props and fluff. Kara says you won’t need it, she means it, and she teaches it. Her effortless way of giving you permission to peek through your camera and create unique and exquisite forms of art, all centered around your client make her the ideal instructor for anyone looking to take their boudoir or nude photography to the next level. Forever grateful that she shares her wealth of information with those looking to grow in this field. Please don’t sleep on her workshops. I am who I am today because I invested in myself and my education, learning from the best in the industry.”
-Tanya Elyacoubi, workshop attendee