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We're all about historical photographic methods in use today. Learn how to print photographs with these techniques, or share your own experiences with others. Welcome.
Mordancage process
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
North American photographers – West & West Coast
From: San Francisco, USA.
Shows: Mordancages.
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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.
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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.
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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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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
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.
Workshops
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
Solarization and layered negatives
Duplicate, solarize and merge two negatives in a single final print to create abstract and painterly effects with film.
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
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.
Workshops
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.
Workshops
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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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 [...]
