Tag: cyanotype

Camp Obscura pinhole photography workshop, NM, US

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Check out the Camp Obscura pinhole photography workshop led by Jackie Mathey:

  • Construct your own 4×5 super wide pinhole camera.
  • Expose images using black and white photographic paper and film.
  • Develop your own images.
  • Quick viewing with digitally scanned images.
  • Craft your images into works of art with the cyanotype printing process.
  • Create a camera obscura and experience what it is like to be inside a camera!

Each camp is held at the historic home of Olive Rush, currently the Friends Meeting Hall at 630 Canyon Road, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The space is a beautiful adobe home with a rambling back yard situated about half way up Canyon Road offering a plethora of image making options for the pinhole photographer.

In this beautiful small group setting we will build our 4×5 super wide pinhole cameras and get a hands on approach to the geometry of photography. As we experience the camera obscura first hand we gain an intimate understand of the way light moves and images are revealed. We will expose and develop images, made with black and white photographic film and paper, while exploring unique locations. Negatives will be digitally scanned for quick viewing while our printing will be done in the alternative process of cyanotype. As a group we will create a short pinhole animation that will be digitized onto a disc for each participant along with scans of their images.

Join us for adventures in pinhole photography and the camera obscura and explore the history, art and techniques of this beautiful and intuitive process in its simplest and most rewarding form.

The workshop runs nights & weekends 21–28 September, 2007, at Friends Meeting Hall, Santa Fe, NM, US.

More info at CampObscura.com

Henrieke I. Strecker’s "Light in the Forest" show, Frankfurt, DE

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Henrieke I. Strecker's Light in the Forest show flyer

"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.

New cyanotype book from AlternativePhotography.com

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(The book is called Blueprint to cyanotypes: Exploring a historical alternative photographic process and costs US $34.)

Alternative Photography press release:

Malin Fabbri and Gary Fabbri have written a clear and well illustrated step-by-step guide to making cyanotypes. It is easy to follow for the beginner and an inspiration for the more experienced photographer.

The cyanotype is often the first alternative process that people try. Digital photography has given this historical process new life, now you can create negatives in your computer and develop the prints in the sun, combining one of the earliest photographic techniques with the latest. The cyanotype process is a perfect compliment to today’s digital photography, whether you are making creative prints or fine art. It gives experienced photographers and artists a great excuse to take their eyes off the computer screen and get their hands dirty. Blueprint to cyanotypes is all you need to get started with cyanotypes. It is full of information and tips. It is also inspiration to see samples of 19 artists currently working with cyanotypes.

Blueprint to cyanotypes is published by AlternativePhotography.com – a website and information center for alternative photographic processes, dedicated to education and research. The website currently represents over 200 artists and continues to grow.

Information About the Book

Publisher: AlternativePhotography.com (2006)
Printed by: Lulu.com
Format: Paperback, 68 pages, full color
ISBN: 978-1-4116-9838-3
More information: http://www.alternativephotography.com/BlueprintToCyanotypes.html

Blueprint to Cyanotypes is available for purchase at www.lulu.com/alternativephoto, a print on demand service.

About the Authors

Malin Fabbri, from Sweden, has over 8 years of printing experience in cyanotypes and teaching workshops. Blueprint to cyanotypes is a result of a Masters thesis from Central St. Martin’s School of Design in London, in "alternative photography". The research for the thesis involved a lot of work with cyanotypes and also sparked the idea for the book. Malin also started the website, AlternativePhotography.com – an information centre for historic photographic methods in use today. She is still actively managing its expansion as the editor. Gary Fabbri is from Rhode Island, USA. An early interest in writing and drawing led him to pursue both fine art painting and writing. His paintings have been exhibited throughout the east coast. His master’s thesis lead him to find work in the television industry and he moved to London to work as an editor and writer/director. As a director Gary has made numerous shortfilms, television adverts, programmes and documentaries. Gary and Malin moved to Stockholm in 2004 where Gary runs his own company, and continues to write, direct, paint and make cyanotypes.

More info and buy from AlternativePhotography.com

Ingo Guenther pinhole/alt process exhibition at NWZ-Galerie im Pressehaus, DE

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This exhibition, "Camera obscura – Bilder von Oldenburg", features gelatin silver, cyanotype, and salt prints of pinhole photography by Ingo Guenther.

The show runs 1 April–28 April, 2006, at NWZ-Galerie im Pressehaus, Peterstr. 28–34, 26121 Oldenburg, DE.

Gallery hours are from Monday–Sunday 9am–6pm.

Opening on Friday, 1 April, 2006 at 6pm.

Via the Spitbite Pinhole Discussion List