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Mordancage process

Mordançage chez Jean-Pierre Sudre 1991 Lacoste, France © Elizabeth Opalenik 2013
Working in the Mordançage process

Elizabeth Opalenik learnt the Mordançage process from Jean-Pierre Sudre. She has since then changed it into her own variation. She shares her version of this beautiful process here.

Mordancage photographers

Elizabeth Opalenik
Elizabeth Opalenik

North American photographers – West & West Coast From: San Francisco, USA. Shows: Mordancages. See gallery

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Blog Peter J Blackburn
Gouache: The Curiously Disrespected Gem in Gum and Casein Printing

Peter J. Blackburn champions the case for gouache as a useful line of pigments in gum and casein printing.

Workshops

Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI: Photo Encaustics Intensive, July 12 – 13, 2013

This course will cover paper use and selection, mounting techniques and materials, encaustic pouring and painting techniques, glazing, scraping, image transfers, stenciling, imbedding objects, and adding texture and color to the encaustic process.

Workshops

Photo Encaustics: Transforming your Images to Objects of Art, September 10, 2013

This 5 week course will cover paper use and selection, mounting techniques and materials, encaustic pouring and painting techniques, glazing, scraping, image transfers, stenciling, imbedding objects, and adding texture and color to the encaustic process.

Workshops

Dry Collodion Negatives with Mark Osterman in Connecticut, July 22–26, 2013. Register by June 7, 2013.

You’ll learn the basics of the rare dry collodion process at PhotoSynthesis on the first day and then spend the next three days shooting in the field using 8x10 cameras.

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Nancy Breslin Blog
Fluttering Memories

Nancy Breslin is engaged by memories in the form of cyanotypes, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, created by Traci Marie Lee.

Call for entries

Alter Ego. Deadline June 20, 2013

The Kiernan Gallery seeks self-portraits that provide insight into the “second self” that appears when artist becomes subject. All photographic media are encouraged.

Lumen prints

Lumen print in fixer bath.
How to make a starry lumen print – a step-by-step process with printing tips

Natasha Sanchez works with Lumen prints and shows us how to make a dreamlike lumen print creation.

Workshops

Salted Paper Workshop with Dan Estabrook at the Center for Alternative Photography in New York, June 8 & 9, 2013

We will dive right in, making photograms on plain salted paper, then work our way up into gelatin-sized and toned prints, looking at the many variations in formulae along the way.

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2013 Vandyke Brown Print on Japanese Paper Workshop, July 19th – July 20th, 2013, Dayton, Ohio

In this intensive 2-day workshop, students will create several inkjet negatives for use with specific Japanese papers.

Gelatin silver prints

S.F. Botanical garden buckeye solarized litho version 2
Solarization and layered negatives

Duplicate, solarize and merge two negatives in a single final print to create abstract and painterly effects with film.

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Alternative Process for Young Photographers with Brenton Hamilton at Maine Media Workshops, Aug 4 – Aug 17, 2013

Students experiment with plastic cameras and a variety of formats and discover the possibilities of working with various light capturing devices.

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Platinum / Palladium Printing with Kate Jordahl and Vaughn Hutchins, spring/summer 2013

Learn about platinum print statements, demonstration of printing processes, paper choices and coating techniques.

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Carbon Printing Workshop at PhotoCentral, Hayward, CA with Vaughn Hutchins, 6/1-6/2/2013

Learn the skills needed to make prints using one of the world’s most beautiful and unique photographic processes.

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Gum Bichromate and Cyanotype Printing using Digital Negatives in New Jersey; August 16 – 20, 2013

Work with photosensitive solutions gum bichromate and cyanotype by hand-applying them to paper, fabrics and wood.

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Gum Bichromate and Cyanotype Printing Classes in Philadelphia: May 30 – Aug 8, 2013

Work with photosensitive solutions by hand-applying them to paper, fabrics and wood.

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Nancy Breslin Blog
A camera obscura pilgrimage

Writer and photography / Nancy Breslin A pinhole photographer arranged part of her holiday around the chance to be inside a giant camera. I just returned from a two week trip to the UK.  Most of the time was spent visiting family (we saw over 30 relatives in five cities), but on the way from [...]

Workshops

Alternative Process for Young Photographers with Brenton Hamilton at Maine Media Workshops, Aug 4 – Aug 17, 2013

Students experiment with plastic cameras and a variety of formats and discover the possibilities of working with various light capturing devices.

Workshops

Exploring Alternative Process with Brenton Hamilton at Maine Media Workshops – July 21-27, 2013

Experiment with 19th century photographic processes including Cyanotype, Cyanotype on fabrics, salted paper process, Kallitypes, albumen, platinum & palladium, Ziatype, gum bichromate.
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