Platinum printing & digital negative workshop, OR, US

Platinum/palladium prints are valued by photographers, collectors, galleries, and museums for their inherent beauty and archival stability. Although there is much lore and mystique associated with the platinum printing process, when properly handled, it can be accomplished by anyone willing to put in a little time and effort to make it work. Platinum printing is often thought to be a very difficult and expensive process. In this workshop we will de-mystify the process and learn the basic skills necessary to produce very fine platinum/palladium prints at a reasonable cost.

This year Ray Bidegain and Patrick Kolb will be teaming up with Jeanette Altman for an additional 2 days of instruction in the making of digital negatives for platinum printing. In the first 2 days of this workshop, we will be making enlarged negatives for platinum printing. We will then be making platinum prints on Saturday and Sunday. For most of the history of platinum printing photographers needed large-camera negatives for printing; Now photographers are able to use negatives from smaller cameras as well as digital files for making platinum prints. Come learn with us during this 4 days workshop.

July 10–13, 2008

Portland, Oregon [US]
$395.00

More information and registration at Ray Bidegain’s site.

Pinhole Day show and workshops at RayKo Photo Center, CA, US

All kinds of good things are happening for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day at RayKo Photo Center in San Francisco, CA, US:

Work by Katharine Kreisher and Rebecca Rome in the main gallery; meet the artists from 3–5pm.

A group show of pinhole photography (including work by Katie Cooke and myself).

Free rides around San Francisco in Simon Lee‘s “bus obscura”, a van that’s been converted into a pinhole camera!

Sweet!

France Scully Osterman added to f295 Symposium roster

Tom Persinger of f295 writes:

We’re excited to announce the addition of France Scully Osterman to the featured speakers/worskhop presenters at this years f295 Symposium in Pittsburgh, PA [US] May 29 – June 1, 2008!

France Scully Osterman is an artist, and a guest scholar at George Eastman House. She teaches private tutorials and workshops in the Scully & Osterman 19th century skylight studio, specializing in wet-plate collodion, salted paper and albumen printing.

France will be offering a 2 day collodion workshop called It’s All Positive! The Wet-Plate Collodion Process and delivering a artists’ talk at the Thursday night opening reception entitled Serendipity and Exquisite Manipulation which will discuss the artistic artifacts of the collodion process as well as the factors which influence and guide her work: process, lens, light, exposure and intent.

Workshop information is here
(this is a rare chance as neither she nor Mark teach very many intro collodion workshops!)

You can read more about France here

And more about her talk here

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SYMPOSIUM WORKSHOPS
Many of the workshops are filling fast/nearing capacity, the home page of the site has been updated to reflect the number of spots remaining in each. If you’re thinking about taking a workshop register soon so as to not miss your chance! Workshops are only available for those registered for the symposium.

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EXHIBITOR LIST GROWING!
We’re also excited to announce the addition of several more exhibitors to the growing group! B&H Photo, Fujifilm USA, Inkpress Paper, Lensbabies, Pinhole Blender and Without Lenses will all be on hand to discuss their products with you! More TBA soon!

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MIX AND MINGLE!
Not only will you be able to interact with other like minded practitioners and see a LOT of the exciting alt-photo work that is being done by this niche photographic group but you’ll be able to mixc and mingle with all of the 2008 featured speakers and many of the speakers from the 2007 symposium. What a group! You’ll be hard pressed to find this many alt-dignitaries, authors and practitioners in any other place!

Those speakers planning to be on hand for these events include:
* Martha Casanave
* Alan Greene
* Jo Babcock
* Laura Blacklow
* Jill Enfield
* Jesseca Ferguson
* Robert Hirsch
* France Scully Osterman
* Mike Robinson
* Terry King
* Jerry Spagnoli
* Keith Taylor
* Ilan Wolff

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements in the coming days. Registration has been brisk and we have limited space available for the event –register today!

Complete symposium information: www.f295.org/symposium2008

Go directly to the registration page!

See you in Pittsburgh!
Tom