Workshops

You no longer need to limit yourself to just analog or just digital photography methods. You can reproduce the effects of a variety of your favorite historic and alternative printing processes with your inkjet printer.

Participants will be guided through the procedures of making this simple gelatin photographic paper emulsion.

New for 2020.This is the only workshop in the world in which participants make black-and-white 35mm perforated film from scratch.

A fun and informative emulsion workshop for beginners!

This very special hands-on workshop features two of the world’s oldest photographic processes: the heliograph and physautotype.

In this workshop, you will learn how to chemically bleach and tone the silver image, tint film stock, and apply colors in selected areas of the film frame.

Destination Workshop—Back by Popular Demand! If you’re ready to experience large-format and alternative-process photography, ancient scenery, and amazing food, this rare opportunity is for you.

Destination Workshop. If you like camping, hiking, and large-format photography, this is the workshop for you.

This stand-alone wet-collodion negative workshop is for those who are interested in making wet-plate negatives for studio portraiture, still life, and landscapes using this early process originally introduced in 1851.

New for 2020.This hands-on workshop combines three different 19th-century printing processes that all rely on light-sensitive silver chloride.

New for 2020). This new, stand-alone dry-collodion negative workshop is for those who are interested in this very rare process originally introduced in the mid-1850s.

SOLD OUT. In the first of its kind, this workshop celebrates one of the most fascinating photographic processes ever invented.

This is the most unusual class of this workshop season. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn this rare process of making positive transparency plates.

Explore the secrets behind two rare processes in one workshop.

Learn to make your own carbon tissues using pigments available at your local art supply store or online.

Get in the spirit and make your own “ghost” images in this popular October workshop.

In this workshop we introduce ways to celebrate the handmade image with both chemical and physical techniques for that steampunk / post-apocalypse look.

Using old 35mm SLR cameras, we will use the actual wet-collodion process to make tiny tintypes suitable for framing or for jewelry.