Kenya Tribes and Wildlife Photo Workshop

Photograph a Side of Kenya Most Safari Photographers Never Experience

This is a Kenya photography workshop for photographers who want to come home with more than another collection of wildlife photographs.

We spend meaningful time with the Samburu, Rendille and Maasai, working through trusted local relationships that allow us to slow down, get to know the people we are photographing and create portraits and documentary images with more depth. These are not quick village stops squeezed between game drives. Cultural photography is one of the reasons we designed this workshop.

But this is still Kenya, and the wildlife is a major part of the experience.

At Solio, we concentrate on photographing black and white rhinos. In Samburu, we turn our attention to wildlife found in Kenya’s northern landscapes. Then we finish in Amboseli, photographing elephants, wildlife and the expansive landscapes beneath Mount Kilimanjaro.

With only seven photographers and two private safari vehicles, there is room to work when the light and wildlife come together.

Throughout the workshop, Kevin Pepper will be beside you helping with composition, camera settings, portrait photography, wildlife technique, storytelling and post-processing. After 14 years and more than 125 photography workshops around the world, his philosophy remains simple: he is there to help you make your photographs, not his.

The result is a very different Kenya workshop—and a portfolio that can include wildlife, environmental portraits, culture, landscapes and photographs that tell a much fuller story of the country.

Highlights

• Three Distinct Cultural Experiences Spend meaningful photography time with the Samburu, Rendille and Maasai. Our local relationships allow us to spend more time within these communities and create photographs that go well beyond a typical tourist village visit.
• Seven Photographers. Two Private Safari Vehicles. We intentionally keep the group small and divide just seven photographers between two vehicles, giving you more room for camera gear, better shooting positions and more access to your photography instructor.
• Rhino Photography at Solio Photograph both black and white rhinos in one of Kenya's most important rhino conservation areas, with opportunities to create portraits as well as wider environmental wildlife images.
• Elephants Beneath Kilimanjaro Finish the workshop in Amboseli, where large elephant herds, open plains, dust, dramatic skies and views toward Mount Kilimanjaro create some of Africa's classic wildlife photography opportunities.
• Photography Built Around Time and Light We aren't trying to check locations off a list. When we have a productive situation, we give photographers time to work it. Cultural sessions and wildlife drives are planned around the photographs we have come to Kenya to create.
• A Workshop, Not Just a Photo Tour Expect hands-on help throughout the trip with wildlife photography, environmental portraiture, composition, camera settings, working with natural light and post-processing.
• A Much Broader Kenya Portfolio Come home with wildlife, portraits, culture, landscapes and documentary images from very different parts of Kenya rather than hundreds of variations of the same safari photograph.