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AvaNiviTava - www.anitafarkas.co.uk    says:

Hi Everyone

I would like to let you know about a great workshop / course that I can highly recommend to those interested in 19th Century printing processes. I recently attended this 6-week course in Salford and I can’t say enough how much I enjoyed each class. Personally I found these 19th century printing processes magical and I was surprised how easy to create something very different but certainly more exciting than a digitally printed image. Our teacher, John Brewer, is not only an expert in historic photography techniques but one of the most helpful and friendly guys I ever met. During the 6 weeks we learnt and printed images using cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, gum dichromate and the combination of these methods. Each process was safe, easy to learn and John always made sure and helped us to get the best print results from our negatives. By the end of the 6th week I had 16 images and I am very pleased with them. They are just so different from anything I've done before. The group was small so John was able to help everyone and we could use the darkroom facilities. I am not good at writing so I shall just copy related links and information from other sites.

Once again I really recommend this exciting and informative course and all other courses John leads on.

“Start in Salford is delivering a master class for anyone who is interested in early photographic print processes. The class will involve working with 19th Century photographic printing techniques: Van Dyke Brown and Cyanotypes Printing using digital negatives. The course will be delivered by John Brewer one of the few photographers in the UK still producing work using these traditional processes. A basic knowledge of Photoshop is desirable. The cost of the course will be £105 for 6 two hour sessions. The classes will be on a Tuesday evening 6.00 - 8.00pm .

For further information or to book a place contact Daniel Moore daniel.moore@startinsalford.org.uk

Start in Salford Creative Arts and Wellbeing Centre,
Brunswick House
62 Broad Street
Salford
M6 5BZ
0161 351 6000

John’s website – it speaks for itself:
www.johnbrewerphotography.com/about.html

One of my classmates, Tony’s, blog. I hope he doesn’t mind me using it for this post here on Flickr. He documented our learning process so well and in details and his blog is illustrated with his own images he produced during this course.

fourtoes.co.uk/iblog/

And finally, at the last class we collected all of ours prints for a photo:


Originally posted at 9:47AM, 4 March 2011 PDT (permalink)
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