Matt & Print
22.5.2022 kl(o) 11-18
We are happy to host this workshop Matt & Print with Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie (AUS).
We will be experimenting with creating matts, rayogramming and printing. These loops create interesting optical sound.
Sign up at mail@filmverkstaden.fi
Fee is 30€, all materials included.
Workshop is held in English.
Made possible by Taike, Svenska Kulturfonden and the city of Vaasa
Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie (AUS)
Affordable Large-Format Photography.
9-10.4.2022 kl(o) 11-17
Welcome to a workshop with visiting artist Armands Andže (LV).
During this workshop, participants will learn basics in black and white large-format photography in cheap and affordable way, by using photographic paper instead of film. Two main techniques will be looked at - how to make paper negatives, and unique paper positives. Also participants will get a chance to make their own glass plates. Dry silver/gelatine glassplate negatives/positives replaced wet-plate collodion process, as the main means of photography in 1871, process still in use today, laying foundations to modern film photography - black and white, and color. In this workshop there will be available three most popular sizes of large format cameras - 4x5” technical camera, 5x7” and 8x10” studio cameras.The workshop will be held in English.
Workshop fee is 80€, and materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)Kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point
Armands Andže
Armands Andže (LV) is a member of Baltic Analog lab artists collective from Riga, Latvia. He is practising analog photography for more than 14 years, and last 7 years focusing mainly on large-format photography, recreating various historic photographic techniques and processes.
Light Designs
5-6.3.2022 kl(o) 11-17
Welcome to a mind-blowing workshop with visiting artist Elvira Akzigitova (EE/DE).
In this 2-day workshop we will be touching on how to modulate light, how photographic material absorbs light, how to regulate it’s intensity and how to create luminous volume, movement and rhythm.
With such techniques like luminogramme (drawing/molding/modulating with light on light- sensitive surfaces) and electric photography (Kirlian photography) the students are welcome to practice the process of crafting a cameraless photographic impression from beginning to end.
This process is intuitive and can take us to a place where chance and skill blend in unforeseeable ways. Furthermore, the darkroom workshop will not only spare us from our familiar approaches of image making, but show us things unseen by the naked eye.
Once a fuller understanding of the medium's potential is achieved, through exercises, experimentation and play - the participants can develop their own artistic signature to create an original work.The workshop will be held in English.
Workshop fee is 80€.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)Kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point
Elvira Akzigitova
Elvira Akzigitova is an experimenter who spends long hours in the dark with a red light, trying to capture the trace of light and its tactile essentials. In addition to traditional analog photography tools and light sources, she also has a rather unusual tool called Violet Wand in her arsenal. By electrifying organic matter with this secret weapon, she succeeds in revealing what is otherwise hidden to the eye, but visible on light-sensitive materials. According to the artist, she works on the edge of photography and painting, just where these two practices meet and blend. Alternative, and at times, antique processes, abstract - inward looking images - Elvira decisively replaces the humanist documentary with a display of photographs presented as themes or events in themselves.
Website: http://chelovekvsobake.tumblr.com/
