The Northwest corner of New Mexico is a vast and captivating landscape. It still holds a deep cultural significance for the Navajo, which they refer to as Dinétah, or ancestral homeland. As you embark on your personal five day workshop with Carlan, you will have the rare opportunity to experience and capture breathtaking landscapes, rich history and vibrant cultural traditions. Our personal workshop journey is designed to inspire, renew and expand creative vision.
Carlan offers three unique personal workshops all of which are based out of the Casa Blanca Inn in Farmington, NM, doorway to Dinétah. Each day after a hearty breakfast you will set out by Jeep with Carlan to a remote field location where you will immerse yourself with the land and surrounding culture. The goal at the end of the day is to transform that sense of place into visual images. To learn more about the workshops, please click on the buttons below.
"Carlan lives and works from the heart, has extensive technical and aesthetic knowledge, experience, and relationships… I have already seen an improvement in my work."
“He is a master teacher as well as photographer... When critiquing a student's work he always finds the good in the photograph. He is never negatively critical… and encourages them [students] to move forward.”
“ His feedback on my work was spot on. I'll have his core teachings and sayings in my head for a long time to come and I'll be a better photographer (and person) for it."