The year is 1987 and I’ve just taken over as president of Hasselblad USA after being with Polaroid for over 17 years.  Hasselblad was just in the process of kicking off a workshop series with a young commercial photographer I’d never heard of, Dean Collins. I had spent virtually all of my Polaroid career, at [...]

The number one request from past attendees has been for more hands-on classes at Skip’s Summer School. So, this year we’re doing just that. I’m going to be doing a series of profiles over the next couple of weeks on this year’s faculty and Bobbi Lane seems like a great one to start with.
Whether you [...]

Every year Summer School gets a little better thanks to the feedback in the survey we do a week or two after the program ends. After last year’s school we heard requests for more hands-on shooting, more marketing and business and several suggestions to make the program more centrally located. Well, we’ve managed to do [...]

We know time is your most valuable commodity and there’s never enough of it.  So in putting together this year’s program we took the key points from everyone’s feedback following last year, and built a new Skip’s Summer School!The three top requests from our 2011 post-program survey were more hands-on training, more marketing/business and a more central location. 
There [...]

Over the last few months I’ve run a number of great videos leading up to Summer School.  In fact, I’ve found great videos on just about everybody, with the exception of Jules Bianchi and her sister Joy Bianchi Brown and Roberto Valenzuela, but both of them did a couple of terrific guest posts. Jules and [...]

Some of you met Bobbi Lane last year at Summer School, when she and Tony Corbell ran our first ever Lighting Lab. She’s a phenomenal photographer, doing work mostly on the editorial/commercial side of life, but here’s what I love about her work – first it’s timeless and second it often can’t be defined. In the [...]

I’ve talked a lot about networking and how small an industry we really are.  Usually it’s been in the form of advice to newbies about being careful of what they say when it’s negative, because you never know who’s close to who.  This morning it’s just for the fun of it.  What got me going [...]

Losing the last couple of weeks and finding things don’t always work the way they should created some serious problems, but remember there’s no such thing as a problem, only challenges.   The bottom line is that last year’s Summer School was incredible and the response from the attendees gave us some great ideas to make some changes [...]

I’ve said it every day, with each new profile.  If you can be with us at Skip’s Summer School, terrific, but regardless, each of the photographers I’m profiling should be in your network.  You need to follow their blogs, their teaching schedules, their tweets – anything that will help you grow, because every one of [...]

Every now and then there’s a great announcement that comes along and today’s is all about WPPI and Skip’s Summer School.  I’ve very excited to announce EVERY attendee at Skip’s Summer School will receive 50% off their registration for WPPI next year!
So, if you were on the fence and trying to decide whether or not [...]