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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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Platinum with Carl Weese
Since the 19th Century, the platinum process has offered richness of photographic tone and archival permanence unsurpassed by any other photographic medium. It has been the premier choice for many of the worlds greatest photographers, and remains so today. In this course, participants will learn the traditional platinum process using a coherent, unified approach based on contact printing from original in-camera large format negatives. Participants...
Intro to Wet Plate with Em White
In this weekend workshop, students will learn one of the earliest photographic processes, wet-plate collodion. This process enables one to make images start to finish completely by hand— students will learn to prep plates, mix chemistry, properly expose and process images. While many instructors emphasize the technical potential of this process, White's approach values experimentation and physical interventions in the creation of an image. This...
Cyanotype Filmmaking on 16mm Motion Picture Film
Learn how to adopt the traditional cyanotype process to adhere to motion picture film base to set your photograms and contact prints in motion! In this 2 day workshop, participants will mix their own cyanotype solution, prep a BW print stock and coat 16mm film with the solution in order to create short 16mm cyanotype films. The first session we’ll mix, prep and coat the material. Then, while the material is drying, each participant will have...
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In Stereo: 3D Imaging
In this workshop, students will learn how to create glass negatives and stereo tintype portraits using the wet plate collodion process. Stereoscopy, better known as 3D imaging, was all the rage in the mid 19th century. (After all, what other entertainment did they have? There were no movies, radio, television, smart phones, etc.) Stereo pictures are taken by means of a camera with two lenses. This provides two separate images made with two separate...
Intro to Black and 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...
Defining the Conceptual
Over the course of three online meetings, participants will receive constructive critique and feedback on new or existing bodies of work. Using a conceptual narrative applied to analog experimental photography processes, this course intends to deepen photography’s essence and framework. In the online sessions, all participants will be present and able to give feedback to each other. At the end of each session, students will be given an assignment...
The Death of Analog: Life Cycles of Photography
The much-heralded death of analog has not actually taken place; instead, a remarkable process of reinvention has occurred, in which the threat of extinction itself has led to new avenues of exploration. Rather than engaging in the old “analog vs. digital” debate, in which one is found to be superior to the other; we will take a more holistic approach and consider the ever-present forces of fluidity and transformation that have characterized...
Performance Now
Throughout this course, students will create experimental performance pieces within the context of history through a series of weekly challenges. These works will serve as a jumping-off point for the development of performative pieces. You will collaborate with each other to successfully plan, execute and document their performances through zoom, iPhone, and other recording devices at your disposal. This interactive course will introduce you to...
Your Portfolio & More
This in-depth, and energetic workshop, is designed to establish your photographic portfolio and explore the next steps in evolving your practice. Weekly meetings are structured around critique, the study of established and emerging artist portfolios, reviewing contemporary photography books, and refining artist statements. This workshop is ideal for photographers of any ability, or discipline, who are interested in pushing the boundaries...
Body Mapping
In 2002 Jane Soloman developed the body mapping technique as a form of memory work for persons living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. However, this concept has taken on various iterations over time and can now be generally defined as a tool for sharing personal narratives and experiences. In this two day workshop, participants will practice the body mapping technique to investigate the somatic relationship one has with their body by creating...
Mordancage
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
The Mordançage process was initially created to apply as a film reversal process and was later named the 'Etch/bleach' process. Known for ‘the veils’ - an expressive use of the emulsion to create unique prints ranging from diaphanous to chaotic, this process has so much more to offer in terms of depth, techniques, and creative choices beyond the veil. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn how to apply the mordançage chemistry...
8"x10" Wet Plate
Elevate your wet plate skills with our immersive 8x10” workshop at Penumbra Foundation. Explore the art of creating tintypes and ambrotypes on a larger scale, refining your collodion technique under expert guidance. Utilize our top-notch facilities and equipment for an unforgettable hands-on experience in the historic process of wet plate photography.
The Photographic Process as Self-Care
Penumbra Foundation @ Online Class, New York, NY
This course challenges you to take a more in-depth look into why you create the work that you do - and how to nourish your source of inspiration. Participants slow down and reflect on how they make work, and integrate self-care into their practice. This course will focus on how we can craft our practice to meet and/or address our personal needs through class discussion, work presentations, and writing assignments. Because our emphasis will...
Virtual Art Walks
This class explores New York’s exciting art scene through a series of virtual gallery and studio visits, including live interviews with producers, curators, and gallery reps, to illuminate the works on view and help to spark critical discussions about art and photography. Excursions extend from Manhattan, to Brooklyn and Queens, and focus on contemporary photo-based work as well as installation and video.Each live interview will include a Q&A...
Sensitive Cameras
In this workshop, participants will explore and actively chart relationships between the camera body and the bodies it photographs. Motivated by the early work of artist Aïm Deüelle Lüski, this workshop leads attendees through the process of building cameras out of the objects that they are designed to photograph. Thus, to photograph buildings, we will construct building-like cameras; to photograph fruit, we will core out fruits and take...
Book Structures (Online)
Artists’ books have been used as sites for exploring ideas for many centuries. From the sketchbook to a completed work in the book format, book structures help artists present their concerns in a condensed intimate environment that utilizes two and three-dimensional space in combination with time. This unique aspect of books provides the opportunity to organize content and practice technique in ways that may differ from other forms of art. This...
Image, Text & Ephemera
From Walter Benjamin’s writings on the caption to Leanne Shapton’s facsimile of an auction catalogue as constructed world, the relationship between image and text has long been a source of fascination for artists. The world of text within photobooks in particular is broad, moving beyond the traditional pairing of an essay with images and into more collaborative forms. In this course, artists will both familiarize themselves with publications...
Introduction to Zines
Unleash your creativity and tell your own story through the power of zine-making. Discover the historical and theoretical aspects of zine culture in this approachable workshop at Penumbra Foundation. Learn the basics of creating your tangible self-published works and explore the expressive possibilities of this unique art form.
$346
Camera Obscura (Online)
A practical online workshop transforming a room in your home into a camera obscura and then using it to capture the projected view in a variety of ways. Day 1, using everyday materials (no specialist equipment needed), covers the construction of a camera obscura and capturing the view digitally. On Day 2, which is more advanced and will require more specific materials, we will capture the view direct onto analogue photographic paper...
Lensless Imaging
Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY
Who needs a lens? This class will focus on the most primitive optics known: the pinhole and the zone plate, both of which create strange and etherial images with the simplest of means. A pinhole forms an image by diffraction of light around the edges of the small hole while a zone plate also uses diffraction using rings printed on a piece of mylar. The resulting images seem to be from another world and have a mystical and mysterious quality....
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