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NEW BOOK - JUST RELEASED!
Anthotypes - Explore the darkroom in your garden and make photographs using plants.
A PRESENT THAT WILL LAST ALL YEAR!
2012 Calendar - from the calendar competition!
Alternative Photography: Art and Artists, Edition I
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Historical photographic methods in use today - the art, processes and techniques of alternative photography
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Cyanotype photographers
Rebecca Bruyn
North American photographers – East & East Coast
From: Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.
Shows: Cyanotypes.
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Ambrotype photographers
Jesús Ricardo Flores Márquez
Mexican photographer
From: Encarnacion de Diaz, Jalisco, México.
Shows: Ambrotypes.
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Open blog
A Prolegomenon for Gum Printers and Other Visual Alchemists: Last Call for Radicals, Rebels, and Revolutionaries
Peter J. Blackburn reveals that stimulating nine letter word for art and offers a frank discussion as to the implications it evokes.
Call for entries
Call for Artists – Kellicutt International Juried Photo Show, deadline February 29th, 2012
Vibrant could apply to a light or hue in the composition, or it could apply to the subject, as to a person or in a street. It could even be stretched to apply to the process – check out the vibrance adjustment layer in photoshop. Which definition of “Vibrant!” will you choose?
Open blog
Teaching Winter Session, Week 3
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week three had students working with Holgas, cyanotypes and vandyke browns.
Books
Experimental Photography Workbook – New edition!
Experimental Photography Workbook by Christina Z. Anderson, 6th edition.
Gumoil photographers
Karl P. Koenig, -2012
From: New Mexico, USA.
Shows: Gumoils.
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Photographers & people
Interview with Anthony Mournian
Anthony Mournian is the newsletter editor for the Photographers' Formulary, he is also a granddad and took his grandson to China.
Call for entries
New York Photo Show March 31 @ The Lighthouse
Dealers in images from the earliest photographic processes, B&W to color and alternative processes, to images by young up and coming photo artists, plus a special collection of images from Asia and Africa on display.
Anthotypes
Anthotypes – step by step instructions to making a print using plants
It is possible to print photographs using nothing but juice extracted from the petals of flowers, the peel from fruits and pigments from plants. We'll show you how.
Workshops
Discovering the Natural World Through Technology: Workshop with Lisa Frank at Penland School of Crafts, May 27 – June 8, 2012
Students will experiment with layering, pattern-making, texturing, and montage and will be encouraged to work with lighting, depth of field, and perspective.
Call for entries
ALTlab 2.0 photography residency, deadline 28 January 2012
Goa Center for Alternative photography (Goa-CAP) with the support of India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is inviting applications from Indian artists for the “ALTlab photography residency” for a two month in Goa
Workshops
Photographing Strangers: Workshop with Jim Stone at Penland School of Crafts, June 10 – June 22, 2012
This class will help you gain skill in managing spontaneous portrait situations as well as increasing your confidence in approaching people to be photographed and gaining their cooperation.
Workshops
The Expressive Landscape: Workshop with Neal Rantoul at Penland School of Crafts, June 24 – July 6, 2012
This class will cover issues of light, texture, tone, color, form, and content to address the challenges and problems inherent in making powerful and subtle photographs of the rural and urban environment.
Workshops
Fabulous, It’s Film!: Workshop with Maxine Payne at Penland School of Crafts, July 8 – July 20, 2012
In this workshop, you can experience the magic and alchemy of silver halide, the sun, a darkroom, and maybe even a little luck.
Workshops
Copper Plate Photogravure: Workshop with Heather F. Wetzel at Penland School of Crafts, July 22 – August 7, 2012
We will cover making digital film positives, sensitizing tissues, preparing, etching, and printing copper plates on a variety of papers, and we will experiment with chine collé.
Workshops
Toying with Photography: Workshop with Michelle Bates at Penland School of Crafts, August 26 – September 1, 2012
Learn the basics of photography using a super simple tool: the Holga plastic camera.
Open blog
Teaching Winter Session, Week 2
Nancy Breslin is teaching alternative photographic processes at the Uni. Here we can follow her five week course. Week two is a bit smoother than week one.
