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Penumbra Foundation
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The Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing workshops, education, lectures, and events to the worldwide photographic community. They aim to be a comprehensive resource for photographers of all levels and to promote the impact of photography on culture, history, and the arts.
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Gum Over Platinum
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Discover the art of layering platinum palladium prints with gum bichromate watercolor pigments in this immersive workshop. Dive into the process of creating digital negatives and learn the techniques of coating, exposing, and developing prints. Unleash your creativity and add depth and tone to your work with color gum bichromate pigments for stunning final prints.
Developing a Research Based Photo Practice
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Discover how to elevate your photographic practice by incorporating research techniques in this weekend workshop. Explore the power of research to deepen project development and enhance intentionality in your work. Whether you're a beginner or advanced, this class will equip you with essential research and workflow skills for future projects.
Tri-Color Gum Bichromate
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Discover the intricate art of creating vibrant, multi-layered prints using the ancient technique of Gum Bichromate at the esteemed Penumbra Foundation. Unleash your creativity as this hands-on workshop guides you through the history, materials, and workflow required to produce stunning full-color prints. This is an accessible opportunity to delve into this captivating process.
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Intro to Wet Plate
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Experience the magic of creating unique images through the historic process of wet plate collodion. Learn the art of hand pouring chemicals onto metal plates to create stunning tintypes and ambrotypes. Unleash your creativity and immerse yourself in this hands-on workshop.
Daguerreotype
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Learn the techniques perfected by 1850s daguerreotypists from modern master Mike Robinson in this hands-on workshop. Discover advanced concepts in contrast control and alternative fuming techniques to create exquisite, gilded images. Limited to six participants, no experience required.
Photographs as a Sculptural Form
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Unlock the transformative potential of photography as sculptural art at Penumbra Foundation. From photo transfer techniques to installation considerations, explore the fusion of image and form in this dynamic workshop. Dive into experimentation and creative exploration, guided by technical demonstrations and collaborative discussions, and unleash the boundless possibilities of photographs as sculptural mediums.
Kallitype in the Hudson Valley
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Unleash the artistic possibilities of the Kallitype process at Penumbra Foundation's workshop. Delve into this historical photographic technique, exploring its subtle tonal variations and creative potential through demonstrations and hands-on learning. Whether novice or experienced, join us to experiment with this cost-effective alternative to platinum printing and discover the unique variations it offers.
Albumen in the Hudson Valley
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Discover the historic art of albumen printing at Penumbra Foundation. Learn the intricate process of coating paper with egg and salt wash, sensitizing it with silver nitrate, and toning prints to achieve warm, rich hues. With access to modern tools like UV lights and digital negatives, students will master this timeless technique in a hands-on workshop experience.
The Intentional Portrait
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This workshop is a rare opportunity to work with Joni Sternbach in her Brooklyn studio while being immersed in a weekend of shooting 8x10 wet plate collodion images. The class will go over the foundations of portraiture and explore the process of working with models. Through both natural and artificial light, participants will compose, sensitize, expose and develop ambrotypes and tintypes. The size of this class is purposefully small in order to...
Glass Negatives
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Has the bankruptcy of Kodak got you down? Worried that film might go away forever? Well, worry not. In this workshop, Lisa will teach students how to create their own glass negatives in camera from scratch. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing and varnishing as well as chemical mixing and safety. In addition, students will learn the nuances of printing from a glass negative,...
Color and Light
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
In this workshop we will place the language of color in a historical and philosophical context. Examining such disparate forms as cinema, painting, photography and sculpture, as well as various philosophical and theoretical ideas, this course will look at ways to create subjective and informed color in one’s own practice. Akin to world-building in science fiction, color becomes a concrete element in current photographic practice, both in the studio...
Wet Plate (Advanced)
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This seven week advanced wet plate class will be a portfolio-building class for students who want to further their craft and dialogue with the wet plate process. Critiques will be held weekly and students will have ample time during class to be working on independent projects. All participants will be granted full access to workshop chemicals, cameras and enlargers to create their bodies of work using the wet plate process during the workshop....
New York Blueprint
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Come explore surrounding New York City landmarks with instructor Robert Schaefer. In this 2 day workshop, students will explore striking elements of city architecture and produce digital negatives from their raw captures. Participants will visit the Flatiron Building, Empire State Building, Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building among others. Students take their raw captures shot in camera that day and print them on transparency...
Hocus Focus: Spirit Photography
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The beginning of the modern spiritualist movement dates to 1848 at the farmhouse in upstate New York of John Fox, his wife and two young daughters. The purported supernatural occurrences at the house and the ensuing fame of the ‘Fox Sisters’ ushered in a movement to last over 75 years. It was during this era that ‘spirit photography’ thrived as a cultural phenomena. The question of authenticity in photographs is one that we ponder and explore....
Carbon Printing
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This workshop is a thorough introduction to the delightfully versatile carbon printing process, developed in 1855. Carbon prints are capable of a wide range of image characteristics. They can be virtually any color or tone, and the final image can be placed on a wide variety of surfaces, including glass, metal, paper, as well as various kinds of synthetic surfaces. Students will learn how to make carbon tissues by hand from gelatin, glycerin, sugar,...
Lillian Bassman Inspired Darkroom Techniques
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Lillian Bassman was one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century. Her imagery was transformed into poetic and glamourous works of art, achieved through innovative darkroom techniques such as bleaching, blurring, staining, etc. She was interested, she said, in “creating a new kind of vision aside from what the camera saw.” In this workshop participants will explore black & white silver gelatin darkroom printing techniques...
Digital To Wet Plate: Wet Plate Printing
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This wet plate printing course will be an intensive introduction to the wet plate process that was the leading mode of photography in the 1850′s and 1860′s, combined with the ease and simplicity of working in a contemporary darkroom with enlargers. The process must be completed while the plate is wet; the images are exposed, developed, fixed, and washed, and images are viewable within minutes. Workshop participants will learn how to create...
Introduction to Wet Plate
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
In this workshop, Lisa will teach students how to create glass negatives, tintypes and ambrotypes in camera. Students will learn the techniques of preparing the plate, pouring collodion, exposing, developing, fixing and varnishing as well as chemical mixing and safety. Workshop participants will be using 4x5” wood reproduction wet plate cameras all equipped with antique brass lenses. The cameras, chemicals and materials will be supplied.
Bromoil
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The versatile and painterly bromoil process is a printing method that combines the arts of photography, printmaking, and painting. In this workshop, students will learn the process from start to finish. The Bromoil process begins by bleaching a black and white silver gelatin print to remove the silver. Lithographic ink is then applied with a brush or roller to replace the silver in the print. Any color or combination of colors can be used. Each...
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Intro to Black & White Film
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The magic of film based photography! Re-inspire your photography by learning about the joy of hands-on film photography. This workshop will offer an in-depth introduction to the transformative process of shooting and developing 35mm & Medium Format film and printing your own images in the traditional darkroom. The understanding of camera and creative controls you will gain by working with film can be equally utilized for digital...
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