Workshops

Arlene Collins
Arlene Collins is a documentary photographer specializing in photographing remote cultures and changing civilizations around the world. Arlene's travels have taken her to Cambodia, India, Mongolia, China, Bhutan, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia Herzegovina, Myanmar, Nepal, Tibet, Papua New Guinea, Turkey, Laos, Vietnam, Morocco, Cuba and throughout South America.
During the past 20 years Arlene has taught in New York City at Parsons School of Design and the International Center of Photography and during the summer she teaches at the Maine Media Workshops. She has also taught at the Santa Fe Workshops, in New Mexico and internationally she has lectured in Turkey at the Istanbul Photography Center; in Mexico City at the Centro de la Imagen; and in Yangon, Myanmar to the Burmese Photographers Association.
Arlene also conducts private Master Classes in her New York City studio. She works as a private location lighting consult, specializing in the use of wireless multi-strobe units and instructs how to photograph on location in the most difficult lighting situations and under low light and at night.
In addition to her images of diverse and distant cultures, Arlene has worked on several long-term photo essays, including Boxing in New York City and Bangkok, Thailand, the Rodeo and Unesco World Heritage Sites.
Her photographs have been published in the New York Times and World Press Review. In Holland, her rodeo photographs were published in Amerika magazine and her Machu Picchu photographs were published in Hasselblad's Forum magazine. Her photography advice was featured on cnn.com and her travel photography workshops were featured on CNN and in Travel and Leisure magazine.