Tom Persinger of f295 writes: f295 Symposium 2008: An Examination of Lensless, Alternative and Adaptive Photographic Processes is being held in Pittsburgh, PA USA May 29 – June 1, 2008. Here are a few of the latest announcements! The Official Symposium Hotel I’m pleased to announce that The Holiday Inn Select at University Center is [...]

Katie Cooke has posted two amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog. Roundup one: Sunprints, shadowprints and photograms Roundup two: Luminograms, bodygrams, and photograms Related resources: photogram.org, Flickr groups Photograms and Photogram

Philadephia’s Project Basho have announced their Fall 2007 class and workshop schedule: Fall Classes and New Workshops We would like to let you know that the fall schedule for photography classes and workshops at Project Basho has been finalized and is posted on our website. We have exciting workshops coming this fall. As usual, we [...]

The Santa Fe Downtown Public Library is proud to announce the opening of the photography show: "Before It’s Gone" Photographs of the Albuquerque Rail Yard Silver gelatin, platinum palladium and gum bichromate photographs of the Albuquerque Rail Yard by David Bram, Joshua Spees and Todd Stewart. The show runs through July 31, 2007, at the [...]

Bostick & Sullivan, supplier of traditional photography supplies, have opened a new carbon printing discussion forum. Check it out! Related: Spitbite Carbon Printing Mailing List

Students will learn the making of ambrotypes (glass direct positives) and tintypes. (Ferrotypes, tin plate direct positives) Students are guided through the process step-by-step from the mixing, pouring, exposing and development of plates poured with wet collodion. The newest edition now is 4 color of the manual, Making the Wet Collodion Plate in 16 Steps [...]

Sandy King, author of The Book of Carbon and Carbro: Contemporary Procedures for Monochrome Pigment Printmaking, is teaching a carbon printing workshop at the Photographers’ Formulary in Condon, MT, US. It runs 10–15 June, 2007.

"Light in the Forest" is a show of solar plate prints and cyanotypes by [insanely talented] pinhole/zone plate/alternative process photographer Henrieke I. Strecker. It runs 14 May – 9 June, 2007, at Gallery Gallus Theater, Frankfurt am Main, DE. You can see some of Strecker’s work at www.photogravure.de, pinhole-photography.de, www.zoneplate.de, and two photoblogs on Flickr.

Late last week Barbara Ess, citing personal reasons, let us know that she would be unable to fulfill her commitment to attend the symposium. A few phone calls later and we’re extremely proud to announce that Laura Blacklow is joining us! Here’s some preliminary information on the talk she’ll be giving on Friday April 27 [...]

Preeminent photographer Diana Bloomfield will discuss her craft at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 31 [2007] at UNC Asheville’s Rhoades-Robinson Hall, room 125 [Asheville, NC, US]. A question-and-answer session will follow the talk, which is free and open to the public. Bloomfield specializes in pinhole and 19th century printing techniques, including platinum and palladium, cyanotype [...]