Darkroom Crash Course
Adult Summer Class | This program is completed
Curious about traditional photography? In this workshop, you will get a taste of what darkroom photography is all about. Experiment with photograms, develop your own film, print from negatives, learn how to solarize a print, and learn darkroom techniques.
What you will learn:
1. How to make photograms
2. How to use your camera
3. How to develop film
4. How to enlarge and print from your negatives
5. Essential darkroom techniques, like burning and dodging
This is a 5-session class. Fleisher will be closed on Thursday, July 4 in observance of Independence Day.
Note that this classroom is accessible by stairs only; please contact Fleisher for more information.
• Your camera
• A roll of Kodak Tri-X or Ilford HP-5 B&W film
• Ilford MULTIGRADE RC Deluxe Paper (8x10, 25 Sheets)
Places to go for supplies:
• B&H Photo
• Webbcam, 241 N. 12th, 215-923-8380
• Freestyle Photo
• Unique Photo, 28 S 2nd St, 215-608-2222
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Ahmed Salvador
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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