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Join us for an exciting series of alternative photography workshops in March and April to explore the art of cyanotypes, anthotypes, phytograms, botanicograms, chemigrams, caffenol film development, photography as performance, psychogeography, and pinhole cameras.
Join us for an exciting series of alternative photography workshops in March and April to explore the art of cyanotypes, anthotypes, phytograms, botanicograms, chemigrams, caffenol film development, photography as performance, psychogeography, and pinhole cameras.
Workshops are all designed for participants aged 18+. Friends of Photo Oxford get a 10% discount on workshop fees.
Psychogeography workshop
Psychogeography workshop
Navigating Oxford through psychogeographical processes and slow walking in a workshop run by Sean Wyatt.
Date: Sunday, 13th April
Time: 10.30am-4pm
Location: Old Fire Station, Oxford
Psychogeography is the study of the effects of the geographical environment on human emotions, behaviours, and experiences. It explores the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit, focusing on how the physical landscape—whether urban or rural—shapes feelings, moods, and actions.
Originating from the avant-garde movement of Situationist International in the 1950s, psychogeography was influenced by French theorist Guy Debord, who defined it as the study of the "specific effects of the geographical environment...on the emotions and behaviour of individuals."
Sean Wyatt, photographer and lecturer based in Oxford is primarily concerned with ecology, land politics and psychological responses to landscape/s will introduce participants to some key concepts of Psychogeography and facilitate a walking exploration of Oxford City Centre with an emphasis on slowing down and observation.
Sean is also a member of the Sound/Image/Media encounters research group and has exhibited across the U.K. and in Europe.
Bring a camera, all other materials will be provided. A vegetarian lunch will be provided.
Cyanotype workshop
Cyanotype workshop
Come join us for a hands-on workshop where you can learn all about cyanotypes with the talented artist Lucy Kane!
Date: Saturday, 26th April
Time: 10.30am-4pm
Location: Old Fire Station, Oxford
Create your own blueprint or cyanotype using iron salts, sunlight, paper and water. We will be creating images using plants as templates echoing the work of pioneer Sir John Herschel and the historical practice of Anna Atkins.
Cyanotype photography is a camera-less technique that involves laying an object on paper coated with a solution of iron salts before exposing it to UV light and washing with water to create stunning white and prussian blue images.
The workshop is presented by artist and educator Lucy Kane.They will give a brief history of the medium followed by a demonstration including an explanation of the science behind the process.The remaining time will be taken up by sensitising your own paper, arranging plant silhouettes then exposing them to sunlight or Ultraviolet light.
No prior knowledge is needed. Don't miss this chance to immerse yourself in the mesmerizing blue hues of Lucy's creations!
To bring: Cover for clothes. Bag for taking your prints home.
All materials will be provided. A vegetarian lunch will be provided.
Pinhole camera workshop
Pinhole camera workshop
Join us for a hands-on workshop with Ky Lewis to learn how to make your own pinhole cameras and capture unique images!
Date: Sunday, 27th April
Time: 10.30am-4pm
Location: Old Fire Station, Oxford
Ky, is a multi-disciplinary artist, curator and educator based in South London with an experimental and alternative photography and printmaking practice with a particular focus on environmental issues and site responsive location works. Lewis is a highly dedicated, skilled and talented artist. Her work is widely exhibited and collected, internationally.
In the workshop you will receive a short history and an explanation of the science behind the theory of the pinhole camera. You will make your own pinhole camera during the workshop, learning how to apply this knowledge to make other cameras at home. You will learn how to set up a pop-up darkroom and use the chemicals needed to develop the silver gelatine photographs you have made exposed in your own cameras.
To bring: Cover for clothes. Bag for taking your prints home.
All materials will be provided. A vegetarian lunch will be provided.
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Anthotypes
Anthotypes
The Anthotype process uses the photo sensitive properties of plants and vegetables to create imagery. Participants will grind and mix an emulsion and will go home with coated paper, underneath a plant silhouette, in an acrylic envelope, ready to expose in a window/greenhouse.
Exploring Air
Exploring Air
‘Through Photography as Performance’, participants will explore interaction, participation, and improvisation using a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates performance, ephemeral installations, and photography. They will engage with the immaterial presence of air, space, the body, and recycled materials to rethinking the boundaries between self, nature and the build environment.
Botanigrams
Botanigrams
Following a period of intense research, the Botanicogram was developed in 2019 by Megan Ringrose. The process is based on plant-based materials and iron. The process is one of the most ecologically sound photographic mediums in existence. It seeks to call out the increase in the use plastic in photographic practice. It also addresses the idea of resource within photography, the extraction of silver and the subsequent social injustices that grew out of its use in photography.
Phytography
Phytography
Karel will describe the process and the theory behind his work. After a brief demonstration, the class will make Phytograms to take home.
Caffenol Processing
Caffenol Processing
In the workshop, you will make a low cost, alternative film developer that uses coffee, vitamin C and washing soda as its primary ingredients.
Photography, Drawing & the Magic Lantern
Photography, Drawing & the Magic Lantern
In this experimental workshop with Alexander Mourant, participants will explore the relationship between photography, drawing and projection.
Chemigram workshop
Chemigram workshop
You will be making plant-based developers to create your chemigrams rather than toxic chemicals. You will be introduced to the thinking behind this approach and how to make the plant developers from everyday plant material. You will work with black and white photographic paper to produce chemigrams of your own.
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