Studio Start Up
November 1st -2nd, 2008

Creating a professional level studio in this time of outrageous real estate and rental prices can be daunting. But thanks in part to the world of digital photography and some good old Yankee ingenuity, you can put together a
photographic studio on a fraction of the budget needed just a few short years ago.

Designed for photographers who want a practical, no nonsense approach to creating and maintaining a photographic studio, students in this weekend class
will research and design their own studio space and list the equipment needed to achieve professional photographic results.

Topics include:
Location, Location, Location
Virtual Studios
Studio/Office Design
The Art of Downsizing
Equipment Must Haves and Wish Lists
No Excuses Photography
Finding Clients


Stacy Geiken, B.A. Stanford University (Journalism), M.A. University of Michigan (Studio Art, Photography). He owns and operates his own photography business in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in corporate and editorial photography.
He has been hired to photograph George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, John McCain and Rudy Guiliani for various foundations and publications. His corporate client list includes Bay Partners, Encover, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, SAP Labs Inc., Stanford University and Symantec Corporation. His editorial clients include: Forbes Magazine, Audio magazine, Runner's World, California Magazine, Diversity Journal, Taunton Press and Chronicle Books.
Geiken's largest photographic book project, Bay Area Backroads by Doug McConnel with Jerry Emory (published by Chronicle Books in February 1999) was a regional best seller. Geiken traveled over 10,000 miles criss-crossing California, Oregon and Nevada to gather the images for the book.
Geiken has twice visited the Galapagos Islands where he is at work on a book of portraits on the people of the Galapagos Islands. In 1991, Geiken traveled to Central Siberia to photograph people and places that no American had seen for over fifty years.
Geiken is co-founder and has been co-director of The Palo Alto Photographic Workshops since 1988. Geiken served on the faculty of the Brooks Institute of Photography. His fine art work has been exhibited throughout the United States. His collotypes are in permanent collections at University of Wisconsin, and U.C. Davis.

Stacy Geiken lives with his wife and three children in Los Gatos, California.

For more infomation and maps contach Stacy:geiken@comcast.net

This workshop is NOT IN SANTA BARBARA!!

Cost: $275