Tours Abroad

Each of our photo tours is led by a Guest Artist. Our Guest Artists are accomplished fine art photographers who have demonstrated experience in leading photography workshops and events.

• Nick Rains Nick Rains In recent years, photography veteran Nick Rains has become more and more involved in sharing the methods and approaches he has refined over 28 years of professional photography. He conducts photography workshops all over Australia which allow him to explain how to get the best possible images from any camera and how important the 'hand of the artist' has become in the essentially mechanical nature of modern photography.
  
• Lydia Goetze Lydia Goetze Where people live close to the land or the sea, I am intrigued to explore the connections between their culture and their environment. Perceptual skills, mindfulness, and knowledge of how to use camera and computer to realize one’s vision are the underlying framework for my own work and for my teaching.
  
• George DeWolfe George DeWolfe We teach mostly contemplative landscape, which is a way of seeing the world with new eyes in a contemplative (silent and peaceful) sense. The whole workshop is about seeing. George DeWolfe and Lydia Goetze are co-Guest Artists on the 2012 Contemplative Landscapes of Zhangjiajie workshop.
  
• Michael Yamashita Michael Yamashita Mike Yamashita has been shooting for the National Geographic for over 25 years, combining his dual passions of photography and travel. With a degree in Asian Studies, and his decades of telling many different China stories with his camera, Mike is ideally suited to helping us discover the secrets of Hong Kong's outlying islands.
  
• Carl Corey Carl Corey Photography, if done well, is unique amongst all mediums in that it allows for both internal and external exploration and the sharing of the results of this exploration with the picture viewer thus creating a symbiotic relationship between artist, subject and viewer based in reality. It is this singular strength of the medium of photography to create a cultural experience that has kept me so deeply committed to the art form for forty years.
  
• Camille Seaman Camille Seaman Camille Seaman has created a series of portfolios of images from the Polar Regions (The Last Iceberg, etc.) that have garnered her an international reputation as a photographer of strange and wondrous places. Her Native American ancestry also provides her with a unique perspective on native peoples everywhere, which will be put to good use in our workshops to Xinjiang.