9. /10
The opportunity to take some images in Death Valley is definitely one of my personal highlights since I´m interested in photography. It is not only because of the beautiful scenery of the landscape. It was also because of the way how Vieri conveyed his opinion what landscape photography can be about. Always very respectful and always interested in what we were doing. Also the small size of the group did foster a very intense learning and discussion culture, while having lots of fun.
The event was so convincing that together with a friend of mine I immediately did sign in for the next class with Vieri and Zeynep!
Death Valley holds a very special place in my heart and is fundamental for my career. I started exploring and photographing Death Valley in 2010, during the one-month trip in the Southwest USA that inspired me to become a professional landscape photographer, and I have been back almost every year since, often multiple times a year. With is huge variety of iconic, spectacular landscapes and more intimate, secret locations all concentrated in a relatively small area, Death Valley is one of my favourite destinations on the planet, one I have been privileged to explore and photograph multiple times, one I have been proud to share with people nearly a dozen times so far and, most importantly, one of the destinations who most helped shaping me into the photographer I became.
After running 12 Workshops in Death Valley, in 2025 we retired this Workshop to dedicate our energies to exploring and adding new amazing destinations and locations.
Designing your Death Valley Workshop, leveraging on over a decade of experience leading more than 110 Workshops, 12 of which in Death Valley, I created a comprehensive Portfolio of locations featuring both the iconic ones making Death Valley a must-go place and those inspiring, less known ones that unbelievably just sit there overlooked. Scheduling our Workshop in winter makes the likelihood of clouds higher.
Great Photo Tour! Death Valley & Monument Valley Photo Tour was perfectly organized and Vieri taught me new interesting techniques. Looking forward to joining him for another great experience. Highly recommended!
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Vieri Bottazzini is an acclaimed Italian Fine Art landscape photographer, writer and educator, with a personal style rooted in pure photographic craftsmanship. Passionate about the outdoors, Vieri believes in honouring the majestic power of our planet’s beauty by creating his iconic images using unadulterated photography only. Through his unique black & white and subtly post-processed colour images, Vieri tells stories about the relationship between nature and mankind, exploring the concepts of time and of the surreal.
Vieri’s Fine Art work has been displayed in solo and collective exhibitions, viewed millions of times on social media and featured on leading publications such as Medium Format Magazine, LEMAG, Elements-Landscape Photography Magazine and more.
A passionate teacher with over 30 years of experience, Vieri leads truly limited attendance 3-people Workshops in places like Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Scotland, Ireland, England, the USA, Italy, France and Spain, where he fully shares his knowledge and his artistry with his Alumni. Vieri’s diverse and vast Portfolio is the culmination of over 15 years of passion, love and craftsmanship, of months spent on the road every year, of hundreds of kilometres of hikes and most of all, of a lifetime’s devotion to the arts.
Through his work and tutoring, Vieri aims to inspire others to embrace their inner artist and find their own path to self-expression (click to read Vieri's FULL BIO.)
