Experimental Photography: The Lensless Image

Adult Summer Class | This program has been canceled

New Offering! All Levels welcome.

7/12/2018-8/2/2018

6:30 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Th

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$125.00

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“Writing with light” will be the focus of this workshop, exploring the experimental aspects of chemical photography. We will primarily work with the 'photogram' method. By placing objects directly on the light sensitive surface of photo paper, we will capture the silhouette of objects in a way that would be difficult to create with digital means. The endless possibilities will be explored for 4 sessions: 2 sessions utilizing black and white darkroom methods, and 2 sessions with rare color darkroom methods. Investigate the translucency of objects, and make your own devices to control color: all utilizing a hands-on approach!

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE
1. A beginner's appreciation for the art of darkroom photography
2. A hands-on, construction-based approach to image-making
3. An expansion of image-making concepts to methods that don't involve a camera or negative
4. Darkroom responsibility
5. Knowledge of black and white & color solarizing techniques, and b&w toning techniques.

  • FOR THE FIRST CLASS BRING THESE SUPPLIES:
  • • Translucent objects
  • • Ideas for black & white projects
  • OTHER SUPPLIES TO BE DISCUSSED ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS:
  • • Colorful and translucent objects for the RA4 process

Ahmed Salvador received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and his BFA from The University of the Arts. In addition to teaching traditional photography at Fleisher, he is an exhibitions preparator at the Philadelphia International Airport’s Art & Exhibitions Program. Ahmed has shown work both solo and collaborative (with Scott McMahon) at The Lightroom, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, The University City Arts League, The Art Alliance, and as a Fleisher Challenge artist. Recently, he’s had collaborative work exhibited at the University of the Arts’ Sol Mednick Gallery: “Response Time,” and in a group show in Santa Fe, NM: “Poetics of Light,” Palace of the Governors New Mexico History Museum; solo and collaborative work at Space 1026, “Clarke’s Third Law”; and a solo show at Columbia College’s Hardwick gallery in Missouri: “Home and Other Stations.”

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