Creative Workshops

Structured, hands-on learning experiences led by established photographers and industry creatives. Explore lighting, direction, styling and visual storytelling through demonstrations, guided practice and carefully developed concepts.

Selected editorial workshops are co-hosted with photographer and creative director Stoney Darkstone. Numbers are always kept small, so that everyone has real tuition and real time behind the camera.

Editorial Workshops with Stoney Darkstone

Selected editorial workshops are co-hosted with photographer and creative director Stoney Darkstone.

Fine Art Nude with Stoney Darkstone · featuring Maria

Date: Sunday 29 November 2026 · 3pm–7pm

Location: Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire

Price: £600 per photographer

Who for: Photographers

Places: 5 photographers

With: Stoney Darkstone (lighting & direction) · Maria, Italian fine art model (muse)

Hosted by Stoney Darkstone & The Atelier of Muses

A Stoney Darkstone fine art nude workshop, presented by The Atelier of Muses with Deana Von Lumina.

An afternoon given to the classic disciplines of the fine art nude: shape, shadow, light and form. Stoney Darkstone leads the lighting and direction, and Maria, Italian fine art model, is the muse. The setting is calm, respectful and professional, and the focus is on considered, sculptural images rather than volume. Numbers are kept deliberately small so that everyone has proper time to shoot.

What's included:

• Lighting tuition and direction from Stoney Darkstone, plus guided shooting time with Maria

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Fake Plastic Fish: Stoney Darkstone × The Atelier of Muses

Date: Saturday 12 December 2026 · 10am–6pm

Location: Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire

Price: £1,250 per photographer. The cost can be spread.

Who for: Six photographers only, by application

With: Stoney Darkstone (creative director & lead photographer)

After Project BOX comes the next chapter: a secret, avant-garde editorial built from the first idea to the final frame, with Stoney Darkstone as creative director and lead photographer. The concept stays under wraps until the day. Then six photographers step inside a fully realised production with agency models, designers, stylists, and hair and make-up artists, and learn how an epic commercial editorial is lit, directed and made. Treat yourself this Christmas. Invest in your work.

What's included:

• A full day of directed editorial shooting

• two agency models

• the studio

• designers and stylists

• make-up artists and hairstylists

• shooting alongside Stoney Darkstone

• the concept, the lighting set-ups and the production process, explained from start to finish

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Every workshop is an Atelier of Muses production. Booking is confirmed on receipt of a deposit, under The Atelier of Muses booking and cancellation policy. All enquiries are answered personally.

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