Modern Calotypes Workshop

Name: Modern Calotypes Workshop
Start: 2025-02-15T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02740

Schedule

Sat, 15 Feb, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02740 | New Bedford, MA

Join your fellow photographic explorers for a unique, up-close adventure in DIY analog photography.
Shortly after the dawn of photography, photographs, known as calotypes (kalos, Greek = beautiful) were made on paper, by Henry Fox Talbot, making it the first negative/positive process that could produce multiple prints. In this lively, one day workshop, you’ll step back into an era when photography moved at a slower pace and the equipment and images were crafted completely by hand. Like Talbot you’ll capture and print on paper, creating images that have a painterly feel and mysterious depth. You’ll build a very functional pinhole camera, then shoot, develop and print silver-based photographs to take home. The workshop will address the practical, technical and creative concerns of making modern day calotypes using safe, easily-available materials. You’ll create unique images and discover new creative possibilities. Your smartphone photos will never appear quite the same!
Note: A tripod is recommended.

The Instructor, RA Friedman
RA is an artist in Philadelphia whose work includes drawing, analog technologies and photography’s relationship to the fine arts. His work has been shown at The New Bedford Museum as well as around the US. His most recent project, The Covid-19 Portrait Project used internet images, often of low-resolution, to create hand-drawn memorial portraits.