workshops.
Filmverkstaden hosts an interesting and diverse program of hands on workshops and masterclasses in analogue film and photography.
Large Format Dry Plate photography
workshop
18-19.11.2023 kl(o) 10-17
Dry plates are pieces of glass plate that are coated with a gelatin emulsion that when exposed to light will capture an image. It was a revolutionary photographic process in the late 19th century, and gave photographers the opportunity to take photographs anywhere they wanted.
During this two day workshop with Armands Andže, participants will gain insights in basics of large format cameras, and principles of making light sensitive silver halide emulsions, and preparation of silver gelatine dry glass plates.
Day 1:
- Introduction in large format photography
- Introduction of principles of making light sensitive emulsions
- Preparation of glass for emulsion coating
- emulsion coating
Day 2:
- Exposure of the plates
- Development
The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 100€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Armands Andže
Photographer and alchemist 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.
Image Degradation
workshop
23-24.9.2023 kl(o) 10-17
Filmverkstaden is delighted to present a workshop with Montreal-based filmmaker Charles-André Coderre.
During this workshop participants will work with colour reversal film and learn chemical deterioration techniques and direct work on film. We will film with mask, develop the film with bleach bypass. boil the film and use the mordançage technique. Those techniques will be tested by the participants and also presented through examples and film excerpts from Charles-André Coderres work.
Accompanied by a screening and live performance on Saturday evening.
The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 100€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Charles-André Coderre
Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. Dedicated to analog cinema techniques, he is a member of the Montreal collective Double Négatif. He has directed several experimental short films (H2T, Granular Film - Beirut, La noirceur souterraine des racines). He also works on 16mm live projections for several performances and music concerts such as Fractures Chimiques, Jerusalem In My Heart (2014-2019), Jessica Moss. Since 2017, he co-organizes the OK LÀ! music & expanded cinema series in Verdun (Canada).
From Slide to Wet Plate
workshop
16-17.8.2023 kl(o) 10-17 / 9-16
In this very special workshop with Jenni Haili you’ll learn how to enlarge from a positive film onto wet-plate collodion.
Wet-plate collodion was a mid to late 19th century process made famous by the likes of Julia Margaret Cameron and Gustave Le Gray. As the name of the process states the sensitized plate remains sensitive to light only as long as it is wet. This means that any on-location-photography will require the use of a portable darkroom rendering the field work very cumbersome. However, there is a workaround! Photographing on-site with a positive film and using a traditional darkroom enlarger, makes it possible to enlarge the images on wet-plate in a darkroom.
In this short two day workshop you will learn
- how to develop slide film
- how to prepare, expose, process and finish glass and aluminium plates for direct positive images (ambrotypes and ferrotypes)
- how to use an enlarger for exposing a wet-plate in the darkroom.Pre-requirements: an exposed slide film
The course does not teach: how to expose on wet-plate with a large format camera
The workshop language is Swedish/Finnish/English. Workshop fee is 100€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Note!
Harmful gasses are released during the wet-plate process, so the course is not recommended for pregnant women or people otherwise sensitive to chemicals. It is recommended to bring your own gas mask with both gas and particle filters (e.g. Sundström SM-100 + ABEK1 + SR 510 P3).
Jenni Haili
Jenni Haili (MA in art) is a photo artist specializing in historical darkroom techniques, she is founding member and vice-chairman of Finnish Darkroom Artist’s Association, and chairman of Värinä colour printing. Jenni has extensive teaching experience at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki and of numerous darkroom courses for different clients.
More information about Jenni Haili
Copy, cut - Found Footage & Paper Work workshop
27-28.6.2023 kl(o) 10-17
Filmverkstaden welcomes you to a camera less photography workshop by Juliana Borinski.
You are invited to come and use your found footage or self produced images. Searching for inspiration? Any kind of objet of your interest, you can bring along. I invite you to work on different stages with paper processing in the black & white darkroom. I will show you how to explore photography within basic matter: the elements of the dark room. Maybe a printer + internet connection and some basic chemicals for development and paper. My practice spans in a variety of the possibilities of reproduction of images. Matter and the image process itself are tested within my artistic practice & I would like to bring you on a two day journey to learn to produce photograms and some experimentation skills within the dark room.
You can come with private images and also with images collected. Maybe there is a certain topic you are already exploring ?
Materials that you can bring with you: printable images (simple black and white office paper as negative or positive) + and or your phone and some extra small light source (iPad or negatives, or objects and less or some lightening source e.g. a torch).
Looking forward!The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Juliana Borinski
Juliana Borinski is a Brazilian-German artist, working with cameraless photography and moving image. Currently pursuing research in eco-friendly image processes within analogue photography and film.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1979), educated in Germany and France. She Works in Paris, France. Her art is exhibited internationally in contemporary art venues since 2006.
Amongst them (selection): IFF Rotterdam (NL), FRAC Rouen Normandie (FR), Topographie de l'Art Paris (FR), Paço das Artes São Paulo (BR), Art Center Onde Velizy-Villacoublay (FR), Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson Paris (FR), MUHKA Antwerp (BE), Würtembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE), (FR), NIMk Amsterdam (NL), Museum Glaskasten Marl (DE), The Drawing Room (UK),CPIF-Center of Photography Pontault-Combault (FR) …
Represented by gallery Pugliese Levi, Berlin (DE).
Also Saatchi & Kazoart online galleries.
Colour film and print workshop
15-17.5.2023 kl(o) 10-17
Filmverkstaden is delighted to present this workshop by Jenni Haili in which you will learn analog colour film photography and printing. The film negative is the basis of every successful print. Therefore, film development and knowledge of film properties should not be underestimated. In this course you will learn how to photograph and develop a colour negative film and how to make colour prints of it in the darkroom. We focus especially on the standard processes C-41 (negative film) and RA-4 (chromogenic colour print) with the use of JOBO rotary processor. The course goes through the technique of working with colour, from the best negative exposure to managing colour balance and correct exposure on the print. Additive and subtractive colour theory will be introduced.
Harmful gasses are released during the colour processes, so the course is not recommended for pregnant women or people otherwise sensitive to chemicals. Even though exposure to the chemicals is kept to minimum, it is recommended to bring your own gas mask with both gas and particle filters (e.g. Sundström SM-100 + ABEK1 + SR 510 P3).
The workshop language is Swedish/Finnish/English. Workshop fee is 120€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Jenni Haili
Jenni Haili (MA in art) is a photo artist specializing in historical darkroom techniques, she is founding member and vice-chairman of Finnish Darkroom Artist’s Association, and chairman of Värinä colour printing. Jenni has extensive teaching experience at the Academy of Fine Arts of the University of the Arts Helsinki and of numerous darkroom courses for different clients.
More information about Jenni Haili
OPEN CALL
page turner - photobook workshop
27.5, 3.6, 10.6, 17.6 – online (11-13, 14-16)
1–2.7 live in Malakta art center, Maalahti, 25 min from Vaasa
Filmverkstaden is delighted to offer you a workshop with paula roush where you learn how to create an artist’s book, either through a digital workflow or with a hands-on approach using unique prints or a photocopier.
The workshop is for those already working on a photobook / artist’s book or intending to develop one. You will learn about small-scale models of photobook publishing [small press, art publishing, indie photobook publishing], and practice the integration of photographic and book art practices in your own book dummy.
In this intensive workshop you will learn the secrets of correct paper/printer combinations and the combination of hand-made and digital techniques that paula has perfected for photo book dummies and small editions through a decade of research.
The teaching pattern will happen through four online workshops on zoom – both group and 1:1 tutorials – as well as a two-day face-to-face workshop with presentation of dummies.
Ideally you will have your own laptop preferably with InDesign (+ Photoshop+ Bridge) or alternative open-source desktop publishing software such as Affinity installed. Basic InDesign skills are important if you plan to follow a digital workflow. Varied photobook templates and handouts will be shared to practice at one’s pace.
Alternatively, it is also possible to develop a book dummy bypassing InDesign or other software, with a hands-on approach, using unique prints or a photocopier. It all depends on the publishing concept.
The workshop costs 150 euros, including materials. Accommodation is available for 35 euros per night for those travelling from further away. Travelling to Maalahti from Vaasa can be organised through car-sharing.
How to sign up
Ten participants are selected to join this workshop through the open call. To apply, please email maria@filmverkstaden.fi including a short motivation letter in which you introduce yourself and briefly describe your interest in joining the workshop by May 6th 2023. Please use the subject Page Turner. We will inform all applicants about the selections by May 10th.This workshop is generously supported by Svenska Kulturfonden.
Photo: Maria Santo Page Turner Lisbon photobook fair
paula roush
paula roush is a photographer and founder of msdm, a London-based house-studio-gallery for photographic practice. Established as an imprint of msdm studio, msdm publications are a small-scale model of photobook publishing, encompassing photographic practice and book art processes.
Please have a look at the results of other workshops:
https://www.msdm.org.uk/page-turner
https://www.msdm.org.uk/page-turner-booksPrinting B/W to colour
3-4.4.2023 kl(o) 10-17
Filmverkstaden is happy to present a two day workshop with artist and film wizard Riojim (Etienne Caire) from Grenoble, France.
In the workshop we will make copies from black and white film onto a colour print stock, using our contact printer. Then we will learn the ways to make different variations/generations in the copy by using flat print technique, double exposure, light and colour filters.
We will try to create polychromie, working with loops, that means 1 to 2 meters long pieces of film.
The workshop costs 80€ and all materials are included.
Etienne Caire aka Riojim
Etienne Caire (France) is a filmmaker working with photo-chemical processes and live, expanded cinema projector performances, often under the pseudonym RioJim.He is particularly attracted to abstract animation, the pleasure of physically modifying images on the film via twisted and other chemical treatments frowned on by professional labs. The material produced in the laboratory becomes a work of improvisation integrating all the parameters of projection. By means of prepared projectors, he applies severe treatment to the projector and plays with the film and the homemade optical sound on film to create a real visual music.Involved in experimental film for 20 years, Riojim have been a member of the 102, a venue dedicated to experimental arts, as well as co-founder of one of Europe’s first artist-run film lab MTK in Grenoble.
Photo by H&M
By Other Means for Other Ends
4-5.3.2023 kl(o) 10-17
Filmverkstaden continues the Analogue Adventure with a workshop by Ojoboca.
In the early days of cinema projecting a film was an act of performance and as much a part of the experience as the images on the screen. Over time the act of projection was relegated to the darkness of the projection booth, but its potential persisted for filmmakers interested in finding other types of cinematic experiences. They moved the projector back into the space and began to play with the possibilities of live manipulation, creating events that expanded and exploded the constraints of the traditional cinema.
In this workshop we will explore analog techniques for exploring the possibilities of
the frame, the shutter and the screen. We’ll begin by looking at the projector not as a passive device for the reproduction of coupled images and sounds but as a playable instrument. We will explore ways of transforming the quality of the light through the use of an external shutter.
In the darkroom we will go over techniques for creating images that lend themselves to live performance. Using black and white print stock we’ll apply contact printing techniques to make loops of various lengths. We’ll make photograms by placing diverse materials directly on the filmstock or copy found or original footage.
Then we’ll examine methods for incorporating sound into live performance. We’ll look at how optical sound can be manipulated using external effect gear such as effects pedals and synthesizers. To further interact with the mechanical properties of the machine, we will build contact microphones to manipulate sound through touch.
Finally, the participants, individually or in groups, will use the material created in the workshop to produce and perform a short piece of expanded cinema with single or multiple projectors and live sound.
This is the fifth workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.
The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
OJOBOCA
Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy are filmmakers based in Berlin. They work together under the moniker OJOBOCA. Together they practice Orrorism, a simulated method of inner and outer transformation. They have presented their films and performances in a wide variety of venues and festivals worldwide, among them the Wexner Center for the Arts, Museum of the Moving Image, Österreichische
Filmmuseum, Anthology Film Archives, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kunstverein München, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Berlinale, New York Film Festival, Visions du Réel, RIDM, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. Both González Monroy and Dornieden are members of the artist-run film lab LaborBerlin.
How to make a color from B/W positives
18-19.2.2023 kl(o) 11-18
Filmverkstaden is happy to host a workshop with Dima Starusev, dedicated to how to make a colour version of B/W positives. Together we will dive into colour theory and experiment extensively with different ways of colouring B/W images, slides, prints and 16mm film.
- Basic color theory.
- Positive/negative. Panchromatic film. B/W reversal process.
- Dye and chemical toning of positives. Tinting films. Partial toning for b/w prints.
- Hand coloring.
- Theory of three-color photography.
- Color separation negative/positive. How to shoot. BW reversal process. Silver dye-bleach
Feel free to bring your own B/W images and film. Materials are also available at Filmverkstaden.
The workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is 80€.
All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Dima Starusev
Dmytro 'Dima' Starusev, born in Makiivka, Ukraine, in 1984. In 2012, Dima graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (majoring in film direction), and in 2018—Rodchenko School for Photography and Multimedia.
In his artistic practice, Dima engages with analogue and hybrid photographic processes, their sense of unpredictability, tactility and handmade character that allow the viewer to perceive each workas a physical object. The fixation of the emotional dimension of reality, as expressed in abstract compositions and through the medium of photography, is of primary importance. Dima creates large-scale analogue photographic prints on different structures and surfaces actualizing the discussion about the very essence of the photographic medium and its autonomy.
The layers of memories, images drawn from reality, images resulting from the developing process, longitude of exposure, natural chemical reactions, penetrate each other, creating a special indivisible fabric that preserves the trace of the emotional state at a certain moment. Trying to return to a negative, to a rough print, he focuses on the uniqueness of the moment and proposes an experience of a unique non-reproducible print.
This residency has been made possible with support of The Ministry of Education and Culture and Artists-at-Risk.
Wild BW solarization
4-5.2.2023 kl(o) 11-18
Filmverkstaden is honoured to continue the Analogue Adventure with a workshop with Gaëlle Rouard.
We’ll do a wild BW processing workshop, printing found footage (or other sources) with the flat print technic. We’ll do small length to make loops, then play with the projector as an instrument. We’ll use film print stock (in the red light) in a wild negative/positive process, to get some solarization orange colors and other strange effects as …how to get pos and neg result on the same loop, and even on a same frame.
We'll have some images to work with, but people can bring their own ones.
High contrast images are recommended.
This is the fourth workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.
The workshop language is English.Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included. Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi (binding registration)
Gaëlle Rouard
Gaëlle ROUARD (1971, France) is a filmmaker, alchemist and performance artist. Since the early 1990s, Rouard has been making handmade films, specialising in film processing. She is a longtime member of Le 102, rue d’Alembert, a venue dedicated to diffusion and creation of experimental music and film. Rouard also facilitates workshops in different contexts, from art schools to individual teaching. She develops and explores various methods of chemical processing of film. With performances around the world, she experiments with the possibilities of live multi-projection, both in collaboration with various people and in solo acts. Rouard led the do-it-yourself film lab Atelier MTK in Grenoble for 12 years, until 2006
Her work as been shown in various screen all over the world,
(De)generations: exposing and cross-processing 16 mm color positive print film with E6 chemistry
7-8.01.2023 kl(o) 11-18
Filmverkstaden is thrilled to start off the new year with a workshop by Melissa Dullius.
Color print film should be used to produce positive film copies of color negative films using machines called contact printers.
It has a very low speed, ISO 4, and its emulsion coat is color balanced for tungsten light, on a polyester base. This material is intended to be projected and not to be loaded into film cameras.
E6 chemistry is designed to process reversal motion picture films and/or slides in still photography. It can be found in different settings; in 3 baths, to be used for hand processing; and 6 or more baths, for professional labs.
We will be using color print film as our medium, and 3-bath E6 chemistry as our process, but not in the way they were originally designed to be used. In this workshop we will celebrate adaptations and experiments, applying techniques that derive from lack of means, special needs, curiosity, accidents and unexpected events or mistakes.
We will expose color print film by contact printing, using excerpts of reversal and positive 16 mm films as originals, or “negatives”, to create (de)generated copies. We will cross-process it, producing (de)generations in form of copies of copies, or variations of an original, and then project them as loops or very short films.
We’ll also shoot with color print film with 16 mm cameras, and without, in the darkroom, exposing film stripes in the manner of cameraless photograms.
We will start our workshop projecting examples made in the above-mentioned techniques and deciding if we want to try all of them or not, and whether we want to make individual mini-projects, to be projected as loops, or create one film as a collective piece.
Participants can bring along:
- their own originals, to be used as “negatives”: positive and/or reversal 16 mm films
- tiny objects, translucent or opaque and small light sources, to be used in the cameraless photogramsThis is the third workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.
The workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
(binding registration)Melissa Dullius
Melissa Dullius (1981, Porto Alegre) is an artist, filmmaker and teacher. She started as a self-taught artist in Brazil around the turn of the millennium, creating her first films and art works and organising art exhibitions and film projections. It was at this time that she began collaborating with Gustavo Jahn. After moving to Europe in late 2006, the two formed Distruktur.
For over two decades, she has been consistently working with analog techniques, and 16 mm film is her main medium. Alongside her artistic work, she has been leading film workshops in different parts of the world. One of the founders of the analog film collective LaborBerlin e.V., she also works in collaboration with other artists as an actress, camera and sound operator, producer, cutter, projectionist, musician and translator.
Her body of work has been shown at the Berlinische Galerie, The Film Gallery in Paris, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, SESC-Belenzinho and Paço das Artes, both in São Paulo; and in film festivals: Berlinale, Videobrasil, Mostra de São Paulo, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Cinemateca do MAM Rio and Kino Arsenal 3 (online).Monoflex and Mordançage
15-16.10.2022 kl(o) 11-18
Filmverkstaden is happy to bring to you this workshop in experimental 16mm filmtechniques by Lindsay McIntyre (CAN).
Monoflex
Sometimes called half-process or Create a hand-crafted film image with both negative and positive on the same strip. Monoflex is an experimental B+W darkroom process with which you can create a film that has specifically chosen image areas of positive and negative. What’s best is that you can make the selection of those areas in full daylight, which allows to you create some quite fantastically detailed images. In this workshop participants will work with a roll of black and white film and through this process they will gain an intimate understanding of how black and white chemistry works. No prior film experience is necessary.
Mordençage
Originally devised as an alternative still photography technique by Jean-Pierre Sudre in the 60s, Mordençage has been adapted for 16mm to create beautifully altered images on black and white motion picture film. A form of bleach-etching or gelatin relief, Mordençage both chemically bleaches the images so that they can be redeveloped (and sometimes solarized) as well as lifts
the dense blacks of the emulsion away from the base creating dancing veils of emulsion. In this workshop, participants can work with black and white negative, positive and/or BW found footage.It is the second workshop in the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.
The workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
(binding registration)Lindsay McIntyre
Lindsay McIntyre (she/her) is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent working primarily with analogue film. She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta. Her multiple award-wining short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatine emulsion.
Her short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world including at Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Analogica, WNDX, imagineNATIVE, Images, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Raindance, One Flaming Arrow, and Black Maria, and can be found in several permanent collections. She is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on unceded Coast Salish territories and she teaches film anywhere else that people will listen.
https://www.instagram.com/tiny_moving_pictures/
Ways with photography – towards sustainable image making
23-24.8.2022 kl(o) 10-17
During this 2-day workshop, we are learning and experimenting with analogue photographic techniques, for example cyanotype and toning, salt printing and chemigram / phytogram within the time we have together. Through these we are looking into the earliest photographic processes dating to the 1830s. Sustainable chemistry and practices are considered and discussed. We will work with local plants and found materials.
Together we can create a safer space for everyone to work in their comfortable capacity. There will be a letter to participants with small requests on what to bring, but the main materials are provided by Filmverkstaden. However, if You have the possibility to print high-contrast negative versions of your images in black & white on transparency film before the workshop, you can bring those with you. However, this is not necessary as we can also work with cameraless techniques.
The workshop is held by Noora Sandgren and created in collaboration with the Sustainable Darkroom in London. It is the first one to kick-start the residency program Analogue Adventure that is offered to Finnish and Finland-based artists who want to learn about and experiment with analogue film and photography. The program is generously supported by Taike, Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Schaumans Stiftelse and the city of Vaasa.
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The workshop takes place during Tuesday and Wednesday 10–17. Participants are also welcome to continue their processes in the space after our shared time on Tuesday.
The workshop language is English (as well as Finnish, if needed).
Workshop fee is 80€. All materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
(binding registration)Noora Sandgren
Noora Sandgren is a visual artist, art educator and sometimes a curator working in site sensitive ways. She’s interested in learning and collaborating within interdisciplinary settings. Noora received her Masters in Photography at Aalto University where she also carries out MA studies in Art education. She has worked with various communities and audiences facilitating art and science topics. Her practice has roots in wanderings and living by the Central Forest in Helsinki and her home garden at Hiidenvesi.
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 VaasaRichard 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/
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