Darkroom: Large Print Color Photography and Open Studio (five sessions)

Adult Class | Available

Prior enrollment in Color Photography required. | Accessibility: stairs

4/6/2024-5/18/2024

9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT on Sat

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$195.00

$175.00

$60.00

Working with traditional wet-process color darkroom printing is a disappearing photographic technique. Many may shoot with color film and then scan it, but why not print it in the darkroom? This open studio class allows you to fine tune this technique plus hand develop a giant 3'x5' color print! Students must have completed the Darkroom: Color Photography course before enrolling in this class.

This is a five-session class that will meet from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The last three sessions will meet bi-weekly. Class will meet on:
• Saturday, April 6
• Saturday, April 13
• Saturday, April 20
• Saturday, May 4
• Saturday, May 11
• Saturday, May 18
• Saturday, May 25

What you will learn:
1. Learn to print and develop an approximately 3'x5' big color photograph using 35mm and medium format film
2. Use the open studio time (while not working on the big print) to concentrate on your own color darkroom photography
3. Fine tune your technique of working in the darkroom.

Note that this classroom is accessible by stairs only; please contact Fleisher for more information.

  • • Negatives to work with
    • Film to shoot new work
    • Color photo paper

    Places to go for supplies:
    • B&H Photo
    • Webbcam, 241 N. 12th, 215-923-8380
    • Freestyle Photo

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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