ALTERNATIVE PROCESSES:
the silver garden / Albumen Print Making
the silver garden £150 BOOK NOW
Albumen Print making £190 BOOK NOW
the silver garden: cultivating camera-less images £150 BOOK NOW
Discover how to make ‘floragraphs’ - silver bromide prints made from organic materials in daylight.
In this one-day workshop the photographic power of foraged flowering weeds, edible leaves, vegetables, seeds and other botanical matter will be harnessed to create prints which lie somewhere between photography, painting, drawing and printmaking. You will explore how to use a selection of alternative, camera-less photographic techniques including lumen prints, phytograms and natural chemigrams to produce stunning images. Botanicals will be used as both raw material for making your developers and subject matter for the prints created. You will leave with a selection of unique prints and a set of techniques you can use anywhere from your kitchen or garden, to more exotic locations.
No previous photography or darkroom experience necessary.
All materials included in the fee.
Albumen Print making £190 BOOK NOW
Experience the creative joy of making albumen prints - photography using egg whites! With a secret vegan alternative available for you to try at home!
Each albumen print is unique, due to its hand-coated, hand-printed technique, and with a timeless feel whatever the subject - from classic portraits to stylish still lives, or beautiful botanical prints to dynamic rock stars in action,
The experimental artistic/scientific albumen process was first recorded in 1850, and it took half a century for it to become commercially available, but by the mid-20th century it was rarely used any more. Today it is viewed as a specialist alternative to conventional darkroom printing, and stands in complete contrast to the immediacy of digital photography.
During this one-day workshop you will be shown how to make albumen mixture and coat paper, prior to mixing the sensitising solution and applying this. Using your own images, you will expose digital negatives (made by us in advance) on our state of the art UV unit. We will explain how to calibrate digital files to create optimal acetate negatives for the albumen process. You will leave with stunning and unique prints!
No previous photography or darkroom experience necessary.
All materials included in the fee.
