Darkroom: Large Print Color Photography (five sessions)
Adult Class | Registration opens Monday, October 20, 2025 8:00 AM EDT
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.
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.
This class meets every other week. Classes will be held on the following dates:
- January 8, 2026
- January 22, 2026
- February 5, 2026
- February 19, 2026
- March 5, 2026
Note that this classroom is accessible by stairs only; please contact Fleisher for more information.
Ahmed Salvador
Ahmed Salvador has an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA from The University of the Arts. He teaches darkroom photography at Fleisher and is an adjunct assistant professor at CUNY. His solo and collaborative works have been seen in shows at Philadelphia galleries including Chimaera, the Halide Project, No.5 Butchie Alley, Space 1026, InLiquid, Wanderlife and Sol Mednick. His video “Lie Awake Dirge” was recently projected on the D&F tower in Denver. Other work has been shown, internationally, at the ViPhotofest in Spain and at the Equinoks festival in the UK.
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