Digital negatives are a versatile tool for bringing together the best of what both digital and analogue photography have to offer. In this workshop we’ll explore the variety of applications for digital negatives and understand how to prepare files for print output. We’ll cover when to use digital negatives in an enlarger versus contact printing and review how to prepare files for cyanotype, palladium, Van Dyke Browns, wet-plate collodion and mordançage. Technical and theoretical knowledge will be covered to help participants achieve optimal image quality and use digital negatives to expand their photographic practice.
Ella Morton (she/her) is a Canadian visual artist and filmmaker living between Tkarón:to/Toronto, Canada and Marseille, France. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Latin America, Australia, Greenland and Antarctica. Working with lens-based media, she uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. Reflecting on how the medium of photography is changing in the digital age, she aims to uncover how photographs can show more than a straightforward depiction of reality, and how the alchemy of analogue techniques can be reinvented in the present day to tell deeper stories within images. Ella teaches workshops internationally and is a sessional instructor at York University.
