Workshops & Studio Days
From focused educational workshops to exclusive studio days, each experience gives photographers purposeful creative time with professional models, inspiring concepts and carefully considered production.
Workshops combine structured teaching, demonstrations and guided practice led by experienced creatives. Studio days offer greater freedom to book dedicated time with one or more models and develop your own ideas.
Choose the format that suits your goals, explore the upcoming dates or contact us to arrange a private experience.
Choose Your Experience
Exclusive Studio Days
Book dedicated creative time with professional models in carefully prepared studio settings. Choose one-to-one, shared or small-group shooting, with studio use, lighting equipment and production support included.
Themed Atelier Events
Immersive, high-concept photography experiences built around distinctive creative worlds. Expect professional muses, ambitious styling, designers, hair and makeup artists, carefully developed sets and exceptional opportunities to produce portfolio-defining work.
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.
Location Experiences
Step beyond the studio into inspiring private properties, distinctive architecture and carefully selected outdoor settings. Each location is chosen and researched to support memorable fashion, portraiture, editorial and fine-art photography.
Editorial Workshops with Stoney Darkstone
Selected editorial workshops are co-hosted with photographer and creative director Stoney Darkstone.
Fine Art Nude with Victoriáh & Stoney Darkstone
Date: Sunday 29 November 2026 · 3pm–7pm
Location: Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire
Price: £600 per photographer
Who for: Photographers; places limited (number TBC)
With: Stoney Darkstone (lighting & direction) · Victoriáh (muse)
Hosted by Stoney Darkstone & The Atelier of Muses
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 Victoriáh 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 Victoriáh
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
Project BOX: The Editorial Experience · SOLD OUT
Date: Saturday 3 October 2026 · 10am–6pm
Location: near Banbury, Oxfordshire
Price: £1,500 per photographer
Who for: Intentionally limited: SOLD OUT
A completely original conceptual fashion editorial, created for one day only. With Stoney Darkstone, a small group of photographers went behind the scenes of a fully produced shoot and then onto the set itself. They photographed three London agency models, all trained dancers, across six bespoke couture looks, set against the motif of the chequerboard.
Team: Stoney Darkstone (creative direction & lead photography); Deana Von Lumina (photography & production); Anne Veck (hair); Monika (make-up & nails); Ada Gao (styling & shoes); Amanda Caroline Couture (bespoke wardrobe)
What's included:
An original concept
three agency models
six complete editorial looks
eight immersive hours
a tethered opening sequence by Stoney Darkstone, then dedicated shooting time for every photographer
live learning throughout
a full welcome pack
A small selection from the day. Photography & creative direction: Stoney Darkstone.
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.
Fine Art Nude Workshop with Stoney Darkstone & Regina Piil · SOLD OUT
Date: Sunday 27 September 2026 · 3pm–7pm
Location: Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire
Price: £600 per photographer
Who for: Limited: SOLD OUT
With: Stoney Darkstone (lighting & direction); Regina Piil (muse)
A focused afternoon of fine art nude photography led by Stoney Darkstone. The work centred on sculpting the body with light and shadow, posing and form, and the quiet power of composition and negative space. The studio was reserved exclusively for us, and numbers were kept small so that every photographer had real tuition and real time behind the camera.
What was included: Fine-art lighting techniques; sculpting with light and shadow; posing and form; composition and negative space; guided shooting with an experienced fine art muse.
Fine Art Nude with Moonie · SOLD OUT
Date: Saturday 30 August 2026
Location: near Banbury, Oxfordshire
Who for: Limited: SOLD OUT
With: Stoney Darkstone (lighting & direction); Moonie (muse); hosted with The Atelier of Muses
A fine art nude workshop led by Stoney Darkstone, with Moonie as the muse. Under red and blue gels, the work explored movement, shape and form: hair in motion, the body sculpted against colour, and quiet, considered poses on the plinth. Numbers were kept small so that every photographer had real tuition and real time behind the camera.
A small selection from the day. Photography & lighting: Stoney Darkstone.
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