Botanical Prints using simple photographic processes

3 stand alone workshops that will give you a great introduction to early photographic processes photograms and cyanotypes enabling you to capture different and intriguing plant forms to create unique prints of botanical specimens.

From the beginnings of photography images have been made by placing objects onto light sensitive paper, for example Fox Talbot and his photogenic drawings and Man Ray’s Rayographs.

We now refer to images made in this way as photograms. In this session we will be using photographic paper in a darkroom and exposing it to light, learning how to develop and fix the images we create. The results are incredibly effective, visually stunning black and white photographs without using a camera.

Other courses in the series:

• Cyanotype Workshop
• Print A Cyanotype Cushion Cover

COURSE TUTOR: NICKY THOMPSON

Nicky Thompson is a photographer who uses both traditional and experimental photographic techniques to document the natural environment and the communities around her home on Dartmoor. After lecturing in photography at Exeter School of Art for many years Nicky is now pursuing her own creative practice full time and has set up her own studio.

 https://www.nickyjthompson.co.uk/

Workshop attendees get 10% off all food and hot drinks at the Café Bar.

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX

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