I have been offering photography workshops in Mexico since 1980, the year after I first traveled to San Miguel de Allende and began my own personal discovery of Mexico. Since 1980, I have led travel workshops to many parts of Mexico -- to Oaxaca, Puebla, Chiapas, the Copper Canyon, Veracruz – and to Mineral de Pozos. When I first discovered Pozos, it was a pueblo fantasma, a ghost town, with the crumbling ruins of five centuries of history.

Today, Pozos is undergoing a renewal. Several thousand people live there. There are three beautiful hotels and several art galleries, but I still find Pozos the single most interesting place in Mexico to photograph. I love the beautiful, cactus-filled landscape and mountains around the town, the magnificent ruins of the old mines, the abandoned haciendas hidden back in the hills, and the simple, authentic Mexican way of life in the community. These are things I never tire of photographing, and they make Pozos an ideal location for photography workshops. In addition, we have a home, a studio, and well-equipped darkrooms in Pozos, so I am able to offer workshops in which we not only take photographs, but process and print them as we work. We have excellent darkrooms for processing and printing color and B&W film in all sizes up to 4x5, and we have excellent new facilities for digital processing and printing. In addition, we have a limited number of cameras, including 35mm, medium format, and 4x5 view cameras, available for use by workshop participants.

I am a strong believer in mixing individuals of different skill levels, using different formats of photography, color and black and white, film and digital, in the same workshop. I find that this way of working together can be stimulating and instructive on many levels.

On the following pages you will find the details of two photography workshops that I have scheduled for the summer of 2009. Perhaps one of these workshops will fit your schedule and you will join us. If not, you might want to call or email me and talk about a special workshop, or private lessons, set up to meet your schedule. Either way, I’m sure you will find Pozos a great place to explore and photograph, and I look forward to working with you to improve your photography,

For information on workshops led by Geoff Winningham and Janice Freeman sponsored by the Pozos Art Project, Inc., please go to www.pozosartproject.com