Italy Photo Workshop Blog | Italy Photography Workshops with Jeff Curto

23 Jan 2024

Improve Your View – Photograph in Italy

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Try A New Angle

In Italy This Summer

A few spots remain in my
Summer 2024 Italy Photography Workshops

Registration Closes Soon – Reserve Your Spot Now!

Cortona - In the Footsteps of the Etruscans

Tuscany Workshop
May 31 to June 7, 2024

The gorgeous Tuscan hill town that is featured in the book and movie Under The Tuscan Sun, will be our home base for a fantastic week of photography in this under-visited area of Tuscany. Come explore my Italian home away from home (including critique and aperitivo in my apartment, just around the corner from our restored palazzo hotel) and the beautiful sights (Arezzo, Chianti, Sansepolcro and more) nearby. Click here for more info.

Chianti Photographer’s Retreat
June 10 to June14, 2024

Chianti – the area that gives its name to Italy’s most famous wine will be our home for a fun and relaxing photographer’s retreat. Over the years, many of my workshop attendees have asked for more in-depth critique of your images, discussion of creative process and idea generation and post-processing of your photographs in Adobe Lightroom (or similar) and these few days in a gorgeous Chanti hill town will assist us in doing just that. Click here for more info.

Dolomites Workshop
June 15 to June 22, 2024

A landscape photographer’s dream location! The majestic Italian alpine vistas of the Dolomite mountains will be our destination for a week of landscape photography. Meeting up in Venice, we’ll move on to some of the most dramatic subject matter in the world as sun and clouds sculpt these jagged peaks. We’ll finish up in Verona, exploring one of Italy’s most refined small cities (and take in an opera in a 1st Century Roman arena!) Click here for more info.

19 Jun 2023

2023 Dolomites Workshop Student Slideshows

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Epic. Stunning. Otherworldly. Majestic.

These were all words that my inaugural Dolomites workshop students used to describe the mountains, meadows, lakes and peaks of the locations we visited and photographed this spring. We had some beautifully dramatic weather, but it only seemed to rain when we weren’t out photographing and the storms left behind some wonderfully photogenic clouds. From our base in Corvara in Badia, we took gondolas and funiculars to high mountain areas, and then spent a night in a rustic high-mountain Rifugio (refuge) to be able to get early light the next morning. We finished our week in Verona, where we learned about the origins of that ancient town and, finally, took in the opera Aida in Verona’s 1st Century Roman amphitheater.

Epic, indeed.

Check out the participants’ slideshows via the links below – each will open in a new tab.

Slideshow Links

Roksolana | Vassyl | Nancy | Julia | Ann Marie
coming soon:
Bill | Shirley

Photos of this great group in action

9 Jun 2023

2023 Tuscany Workshop Student Slideshows

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What a great week we had in the Val d’Orcia of Tuscany! Some warm sun, cool evenings and a few showers that always seemed to happen when we were inside rather than out made for a fantastic time to develop new friendships, make great photographs and learn about the process of telling a story with our images. From our home base of Pienza, we fanned out across the area to places like San Quirico d’Orcia, Bagno Vignoni, Castiglione d’Orcia, Siena, Montepulciano, Montalcino and more. Over the week, I as new and existing skills combined to make some really fine photographs that tell a story about this unparalleled section of Tuscany.

Check out the participants’ slideshows via the links below – each will open in a new tab.

Slideshow Links

Kathy | Jayn | Emily | Rob

Alex 1 – Alex 2 | Gerry 1 – Gerry 2

Photos of this great group in action

1 Jun 2023

2023 Puglia Workshop Student Slideshows

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Warm sun and cooling breezes greeted us for a spectacular week of exploring the southern Italian region of Puglia (and a brief trip to neighboring Basilicata) with our cameras. From the mind-boggling antiquity of Matera to the turquoise sea off the coast of Otranto, the stunning Baroque architecture of Lecce and the blinding white-washed city of Ostuni, we worked on telling the story of the south in pictures.

Check out the participants’ slideshows via the links below – each will open in a new tab.