ALTERNATIVE PHOTO WORKSHOP
Printing with Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown Emulsions
In this workshop students were introduced to a number of non-camera generated imaging techniques: pinhole, cliche-verre, photograms, digital negatives; learned how to make photographic emulsions, and to coat papers and alternative surfaces. The workshop featured 19th century techniques, including both Cyanotype and Van Dyke Brown demonstrations and labs. A fun, yet challenging, alternative to traditional B&W, color and digital!
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT BY: Olivia B. McCullough
Olivia McCulllugh, a graduate of RISD, has taught alternative photography for over 20 years, including classes at the University of Connecticut, RISD, and most recently at Northeastern University. She has conducted both children and adult workshops and has received 3 grants from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts.
DARKROOM INTERMEDIATE PRINTING
This course was designed for those with experience printing black & white looking to further hone their skills. Classes covered setting up a darkroom, mixing and tweaking chemistry, contrast control, dodging, burning, flashing, washing, toning, spotting, print finishing, breaking down a darkroom and exhibiting your work. The objective: to master the scientific in order to explore the creative.
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT BY: Stewart Martin
Stewart Martin is a professional printer and photographer who working in the field of traditional photography for over twenty-five years. His early printing experience included edition printing for Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson and Larry Fink. Although events and portraits are the bulk of his commercial work, he also does a specialized type of photography of the eye for ophthalmologists. He lives and works in Providence with his wife and daughter.
INTRO TO PHOTO
The basics of 35mm photography were covered in this first level traditional photography course. Beginning with a comprehensive examination and understanding of the camera and light meter, students learned to develop film, make contact prints, and to enlarge prints using variable contrast filters to improve print quality. The course included slide presentations of both historic and contemporary photographers, critiques and class discussions to help students to improve their ability to talk about photographs, define their own interests in photography, and to improve composition.
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT BY:
Gail Porter
PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY
Pinhole photography is the capture of an image using a tiny pin sized hole in a thin sheet of metal allowing a ray of light to enter a container projecting the image onto light sensitive material creating the negative. This primitive process is the origin of modern-day photography, rooted in the camera obscura or "darkened room" novelty of the 15th century. This fun and exciting "low-tech" approach frees us from our need to control outcome, loosen our imaginations and explore new avenues of seeing.
This always-popular two-day workshop taught students how to construct pinhole cameras, create paper negatives and print these in our darkrooms. Students left this workshop with the knowledge of how to create new cameras from ordinary household containers!
PREVIOUSLY TAUGHT BY:
Scott Lapham & Stephanie Ewens
David Ellis
These images are triptychs printed from photographs by the students in the Photographic Memory program.
