Gallery 44 is offering a 3-part Black and White Darkroom Photography course. Each workshop will focus on a different aspect of analog photography, from learning to shoot & process 35mm film, to making exhibition ready darkroom prints, this course is an in depth exploration in to the world of Darkroom photography. Workshops are suitable for any level of experience and participants can enrol for one or all workshops depending on their learning goals.
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PRICING:
All 3 workshops – $425 (members) / $450 (non members)
Individual workshops – $150 each (members) / $160 each (non members)
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Learn skills necessary for printing in a traditional wet black & white darkroom with instructor Ruth Kaplan. This workshop will guide participants from the basic fundamentals of black and white printing including darkroom chemistry setup and safety, enlarger use, test prints, contact sheets through more advanced printing techniques such as dodging & burning and the use of filters to enhance your images.
A great introduction to darkroom printing or a refresher course for anyone who hasn’t been in the darkroom for a while. Participants should bring processed B&W negatives, all other materials will be provided.
Please note: For your safety and the safety of our community, masks are still mandatory for all of our in-person group workshops. Kindly bring a mask with you, or one will be provided for you.
Ruth Kaplan is a documentary-based photographer whose work explores a variety of themes such as the social behaviour of bathers in communal hot springs, participants in rituals of spirituality and most recently, refugee shelters in Canadian/U.S.A. border cities including Detroit, Buffalo and Fort Erie. Her first monograph, Bathers, has recently been published by Damiani.
Kaplan has exhibited internationally and is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery.Her editorial work can be found in major Canadian and international publications, she has received numerous grants and awards and is currently photography professor at OCAD University and Toronto Metropolitan University.
