About Us

Photography for Social Change

Momenta Workshops is just one branch of a larger media organization, Momenta Group, LLC. Founded by media consultant John Christopher Anderson and documentarian Seth Butler, Momenta strives to elevate and support the community of visual journalists and artists around the world. We create relationships between like-minded individuals and organizations for the common good of our craft and society as a whole. Our innovation and outreach within the field helps the institutions and individuals we work with to profit and succeed into the next generation of media.

The company began with our education component, the workshops. Today, Momenta Group houses a graphic and web design department, marketing and publishing branches, international exhibits and we are currently developing a nonprofit media studies institute.

Our workshops specialize in helping not only beginning storytellers but also professionals on an upward trajectory. We aim to keep connecting journalists and media experts from around the world to create a network with common interests. In a sense, we fill the void current media institutions cannot by getting photographers to out into the field to hone their skills, perfect their craft and carry on the mission of journalistic integrity. At the same time, we are building a new media marketplace that will continue to pay dividends to the communications community for some time to come.

We see photography as a communicator of ideas and emotions across a wide human audience. We seek to promulgate visual journalism and the arts as a mechanism of social change and a profitable venture into the future. It is the principles we were founded on and the belief that brings our students back over and over again. We invite you to learn more about us, our instructors and our workshops on these pages and, hopefully, we'll see you on our next adventure!