Sarah Shea Roberto approaches teaching as a hands-on, process-driven experience rather than a rigid technical exercise. Her workshops in alternative photographic processes — including chemigrams, photograms, cyanotypes, and pinhole photography — emphasize experimentation, material exploration, and tactile engagement with image-making.

In class, the focus is on slowing photography down. Instead of centering perfection or gear mastery, she encourages students to work through their curiosity during physical interaction with materials. That teaching philosophy is especially important in alternative process photography, where unpredictability and process are often part of the artwork itself.

In that sense, she teaches photography less like a commercial craft and more like a studio art practice — one rooted in experimentation, touch, imperfection, and personal discovery.