What comes next?

Formal, traditional education gives photographers a foundation. Degree programs, diplomas, and continuing education courses at colleges and universities provide structure, feedback, and credentials. They matter.

But the formal route has a natural endpoint. When the courses end, most photographers are left without a clear path forward for additional education focused on more specifics of their craft.

That feeling of having developed real skill but having nowhere obvious to take it is not a personal failing. There is a gap in how creative continuing education has been built and delivered through institutions.

The Photographer's Secret Geometry

I’m building this for the photographer who wants to learn with structure and guidance. I’m not trying to replace the traditional institution of education; I’m enhancing it.

I come to all I do as an educator first, to pass along what I’ve learned to help others. I have been a post-secondary educator since 2000, and I took photography seriously in 2012. I developed Alberta's first government-approved 3D animation program, secured educational grants to provide students who couldn’t afford to leave work with access to education, and continue to deliver to students across Canada and beyond for MacEwan University’s School of Continuing Education.

I've taught at the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and Edmonton Digital Arts College, and consulted for the Edmonton Public and Catholic School Boards and Elk Island Public Schools.

For years, students finishing my institutional courses asked the same question:

What comes next?

I didn't have a good answer. Now I do.

How it works.

Register for a Workshop.

Live, online, and built around a single framework, you can apply the same day. Each workshop goes where institutional programs rarely can, into the questions that define a mature practice.

Composition as a perceptual discipline. Narrative structure and the ethics of storytelling. The geometry that Renaissance painters used and photographers have forgotten.

A recording is delivered after every session, so the learning stays with you.

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Join the community.

The Creative Lab is a peer learning community for photographers who take their practice seriously.

live sessions|conversation|community.

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Go deeper.

The Responsibility of Story is the framework I am building in public through my newsletter.

It is where the deeper questions live: what ethical obligations does a photographer carry, and how does structure shape what a viewer is allowed to feel and conclude.

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What is success?

A practice that keeps growing. Work that goes deeper. A community of photographers who take the same things seriously that you do. And a clear framework for making decisions about your work that no beginner course ever gave you.

This is continuing education built for where you actually are.

I develop and deliver curriculum for post-secondary continuing education programs. I build from learning outcomes, work within existing program structures, and bring 25 years of teaching behind me.

If you're looking to grow a photography or visual storytelling program, {let's talk.}

Actor Headshots

I offer actor headshots through my partners at Tempest Theatre in Penticton, a black box performance space with film-grade lighting and atmosphere.

{Book at tempest.ca →}