Modern Tintypes (five sessions)
Adult Class | This program is completed
In this class, students will be introduced to the beauty and history of tintype and the generosity of ease afforded the process by modern times. In this workshop, students will be provided with the tools, the time, and the guided instruction needed to create their own unique tintype prints. Approaches to image making will include both analog and digital with the use of both the 4x5 camera and digital negatives in the B&W photography darkroom. Students will engage in both darkroom and digital lab work. No prior experience in tintype is required.
Note that this classroom is accessible by stairs only; please contact Fleisher for more information.
Tamsen Wojtanowski
Tamsen Wojtanowski is a Philadelphia-based artist and educator whose work explores the intersection of photography and printmaking. Blending abstraction and representation, their work is rooted in themes of motherhood, gender and identity, grief, and resilience. Rather than treating photography as a tool for fixed representation, Wojtanowski embraces photographic processes as spaces of exploration, where images evolve through layers of memory, touch, and transformation.
Drawing from alternative photographic processes, handmade paper, collage, and printmaking, their work explores the instability of memory, creating images that exist between presence and absence, documentation and invention.
Their teaching practice in photography and interdisciplinary studio art informs an ongoing interest in experimentation, process, and visual storytelling.