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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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Wet Plate Collodion Course
Wet plate collodion was the leading method of photography during the 1850’s and 1860’s. This course is designed for students who want to learn the techniques behind the wet plate collodion process, as well as those who strive to develop a body of work in this unique process. The wet plate process is most commonly known in its three forms – tintypes (positives on tin), ambrotypes (positives on glass), and glass negatives (negatives on glass)....
Advanced Seven Week Wet Plate Workshop
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 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. ...
Wayfinding: Navigating the Physical and Graphic Space
Wayfinding: Navigating the Physical and Graphic Space of the Photobook It is not uncommon for a photographer or artist to have the desire to apply their images into the book format, but where do we begin this process? Further still, once we have created a layout, how do we go about printing and producing that which we see on the screen into a physical book? Often daunting and confusing, knowing where to start can be paralyzing for many who...
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A Common Language: The Photo-Text Book
This four-week course will explore the various ways that photography and text interact in the book form. Meeting virtually for several hours each week, sessions will consist of creative exercises, group reading discussions, brief lectures, and presentations of both historically relevant and contemporary book publications. Students will be asked to work with both found materials and their own photographic work, culminating in the formation...
Strategies for the Photobook
Despite our digitized world—or maybe because of it—the photographic book is considered by many to be the optimal way to experience photographs. As something to hold and behold, the photobook is both visual and tactile. It occupies a conceptual and physical space while eliciting a deep sensory engagement. This course is intended for any photographer who wants to acquire strategies for editing and compiling a body of photographs into a...
Now Landscape, Now a Room: Photography and the Art
Full Course Name: Now Landscape, Now a Room: Photography and the Art of Walking This four-week workshop will consider walking as a mode of artistic practice and a means of generating photographic work. Alongside various creative exercises and informal critiques, participants will engage with works of photography, conceptual art, film, cultural theory, and more. The workshop will culminate in individual projects that build upon our group discussions...
Introductory Seven Weeks of Wet Plate
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Attendees will take a comprehensive approach to the collodion process and its effective practice by the modern-day photographer. Its practitioners effectively make their own film through the coating of a metal plate with the collodion substrate, sensitizing it in a solution of silver nitrate, and exposing this plate in-camera while still wet. Hence its commonly known name “wet plate”. This seven week course is designed for those who want to...
Interdisciplinary Projects
Boundaries between mediums and disciplines have become less distinct and more permeable as image makers increasingly turn to sculpture and installation as vehicles for self-expression, and those making three-dimensional work incorporate imagery. This class is a forum for experimentation with contemporary art methods of photography, mixed media sculpture, and installation. The focus will be on the pragmatic aspects of creating interdisciplinary work...
Gum Oil
The Gumoil process is a relatively new photographic printing process developed in the 90's by Karl Koenig. The process has similarities in different ways from physical application to visual asthetics such as bromoil, gum bichromate, lith, liquid emulsion and photo etching creating a matrix of light sensitive gum arabic which is hand applied to printmaking paper, exposed, dried, then 'inked' with oil paints, washed and brightened. The process is...
Platinum Palladium Printing Intensive I
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Platinum Palladium Printing Intensive I: Process & Techniques Platinum printing is a remarkably stable alternative photographic process capable of producing a monochromatic image that can last for thousands of years. Initially developed in the early 19th century, platinum prints, also known as platinotypes, are popular among artists who value the process’s fine tonal range and reflective quality. This hands-on course is designed for beginner...
Inkjet Layering Over 19th Century Processes
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
This unique workshop will blend together inkjet printing with layering 19th century processes onto of the inkjet print. This technique is very unique, as you can manipulate color, tone and tint your blacks depending on what process you put over it. Using this technique will give you almost limitless possibilities while having the option to keep your original images in color. We will be printing images digitally and making digital negatives...
Your Circle: Community & Network
This class is an invitation to learn. Every student should be prepared to come to every class to speak about themselves, their work, their needs, their goals, and each other. Regardless of being prepared or not this class hinges on participation. Everyone will be asked to speak at some point during every class. Learning one another is as important to building a career as learning who working professionals are. A successful career starts with...
Sacred Texts: a History of the Photobook
Sacred Texts: a History of the Photobook, From Bible Cloth to the Holy Bible The photobook is an increasingly diverse and versatile artistic medium. The book form, engaging the linguistic, allegorical and narrative potential of photography, provides a uniquely intimate viewing experience, and when compared to an exhibition, has a lasting wide-ranging ability to reach audiences. As a result, the photobook, has become in recent years, an integral...
Experimental Digital Techniques
The combination of digital and analog techniques has become increasingly more popular, but have you ever wondered how to blend both mediums while furthering your exploration of color, texture and substrates? In two days, Morgan Post will expand your thinking on both digital and analog photography. You will explore different surfaces to print on such as metal and glass. The topics that will be covered include: Inkjet layering over analog processes...
Five Days of Alternative Process
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Are you seeking a hands-on photographic experience using historic 19th-century processes? Each day, students will engage with the chemistry and the materials. Among the processes you’ll learn in this class are: Cyanotype Albumen Collodio-Chloride Kallitype & others! Different toning options and techniques will be demonstrated and discussed. Students will be contact printing, which requires a large format or digital negative. Digital...
The Holga: Experimentation, Layered Exposure
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The Holga: Experimentation, Layered Exposure & Dream Imagery In this two day workshop, we will walk around photographing NYC with plastic film cameras called Holgas. We will create single, double, and layered exposures with the outcome of dreamlike imagery. Our focus will ride a fine line between intuition, planning, and cosmic interventions. Come without expectations and a strong desire to experiment. What to bring with you: ...
The B&W Fine Print in Silver Gelatin
Analog black and white printing is a tango dance between the negative and the printer, the intimacy of a partnership to create an object of beauty based on understanding and execution, and lastly, the satisfaction of your achievement in the print. This two-weekend workshop is intended for intermediate to advanced-level students who wish to deepen their knowledge of analog B&W printing on fiber-based paper. It is a practical, hands-on darkroom...
Introduction to Lighting
Hosted in our north light studio, this workshop will introduce photographers to the fundamentals of lighting and provide an overview of the three basic qualities of light: hard light, diffused light and reflected light. Through hands-on demonstrations and shooting, students will learn how to see and work with the direction and quality of light, including both artificial and daylight sources. Students will also shoot with lighting equipment including...
Eight Weeks of Alternative Process
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Want to learn a range of new and fun photo processes, but you are unsure which one you want to learn and explore? Do you have a project in mind but are unsure how to manifest it in print or capture? During this eight-week workshop, students will learn the basics of a range of alternative photographic print and lens-based techniques. The course typically covers four to eight processes with many variations. Processes covered in previous sessions...
Intro to Strobe for Wet Plate
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Learn how to bring instant illumination to your wet plate collodion photography with this introductory workshop. Discover the power and creative possibilities of strobe lighting and gain practical skills in portrait and still-life lighting techniques. Enhance your practice and make stunning images with the help of powerful yet economical strobes and light modifiers.
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