I will be returning to Digital Silver Imaging on Saturday May 13th for another Ziatype palladium printing workshop. This process is easy to grasp and extremely variable, with tweaks to the chemistry used in the sensitizer yielding spectacular shifts in color and tone. If you have ever had an interest in learning platinum or palladium printing, this workshop is a great way to get your feet wet. This will be open to newbies and to those who have taken my previous workshop and would like to build on that experience. Spots are filling up---check Digital Silver's website for sign up and DM me if you have questions!
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LIGHT SENSITIVE 2017
My palladium print, "Dragon Bones" has been selected for the upcoming exhibit, Light Sensitive at Arts Intersection. Show runs Mar. 4-April 15 in Gilbert, AZ. Many thanks to juror Ann Jastrab! Info here: https://artintersection.com/event/light-sensitive-2017-celebrating-images-from-the-darkroom/
Soho Photo Gallery Opening Nov. 1
The Soho Photo Gallery exhibition for winners of the 2016 Alternative Processes Show opens next Tuesday evening 6-8 at the gallery on White Street. I am very happy to have a platinum/palladium print included! I also have a Pt/Pd print in the Penumbra Foundation Juried Members Show hanging adjacent to the National Competition Show. If you are in NYC next week stop and say hi!
Gum Bichromate Book Has Dropped!
Christina Z. Anderson's new book, Gum Printing: A Step by Step Manual Featuring Artists and Their Creative Practice is now available in the US and internationally. I am thrilled to be included in the artist section with images and an interview. This comprehensive book on gum printing is published by Routledge Focal Press and is probably the most thoroughly researched book ever printed on the subject, featuring a truly diverse selection of work by contemporary practicioners of this slow and labor intensive printing method. Check it out!
SOHO Annual Alternative Process Competition!
My image Tooth and Claw has been selected for the Soho 2016 Annual Alternative Process Competition Show at Soho Gallery, NYC, opening November 1st! I am so pleased to be presented along with a number of respected peers, heroes, mentors, friends, and colleagues! I hope to attend the opening, so if you are in town please stop in and say hello :)
Photos from Longwood!
Here are a few pics from the Longwood workshop. The highlight for me was donning gaiters and getting to wade into the famous water gardens to gather materials for the workshop! I was plant-geeking out so hard! Sometimes vantage point is what it's all about and I'll never have this one again, so I have posted a photo. Many thanks to Matt Ross, Longwood Continuing Education coordinator for all the help and support. The class participants made some amazing images, of which these are just a few. What a privilege and honor to be there!
Next up---cyanotyping at Longwood Gardens!
It's been a really busy summer teaching and running workshops, and all my students, youths and adults, have turned out some amazing work! Next on the agenda is the workshop in cyanotype process at Longwood Gardens outside Philadelphia in Kennett Square, PA. We will be using materials from the famous water gardens to make images in the historic cyanotype printing method. This one promises to be really fun!
Ziatype Workshop at Digital SIlver!
Digital Silver in Belmont, MA has invited me to give a workshop in the Ziatype printing process on Saturday August 6th. The workshop will run all day with a break for lunch and we will be printing on the new Hahnemuhle platinum rag paper with promotional support from Hahnemuhle! Participants will learn to create digital negatives and will go home with prints made using this versatile palladium based process. Fun and experimental---this will be an enjoyable day! Info available through Digital Silver.
http://digitalsilverimaging.com/digital-printing-blog/ziatype-workshop/
#22 Juried exhibition The Griffin Museum of Photography
I am honored to have had work selected for the current Griffin Museum of Photography #22 Juried Show Instagram Exhibition currently on view via Instagram! The entire show may be viewed as it posts using the hastag #22juriedshow. Check out the Griffin at http://www.griffinmuseum.org/
July Issue of The hand Magazine!
So pleased to be featured in the July issue of The Hand Magazine alongside some of my alternative process heroes including Christina Z. Anderson and Elie Young! The guys at The Hand work so hard to promote artists and their work---check out the magazine and be sure to look at the impressive list of artists in the back issues as well! https://thehandmagazine.net/
Summer Youth Program at Lesley
I am pleased to be teaching several courses again this summer in the Youth Program at Lesley, a pre-college experience for high school students. These kids are doing some amazing work so far, including printing using only chlorophyll as seen in our set up here. From exploring Boston with their phone cameras to blending sculpture and photography to alternative process, they are handling everything I am throwing at them!
Ziatype Workshop!
I will be coming to Yorklyn, De to give a Ziatype workshop on Saturday June 4 at Carlos Alejandro Photography studio. I will cover making large negatives from participants' files and everyone will get hands on practice with this versatile palladium printing method! Class size is very limited, but there are still one or two openings. Use the Contact Me form to request more information or call Carlos Alejandro Photography at 302 234 1100. Pictured here is a Ziatype print in the rinse from last week. In the area and into alt pro? Check out the Halide Project exhibit that weekend! The show will be on display from June 3-26 at Gravy Studio & Gallery in Northern Liberties.
Lesley University College of Art and Design Summer Youth Program
I am pleased to be teaching two classes during summer session. After the winter we had here in Boston, everyone is enjoying getting outside and feeling that sunshine and harnessing it in the interest of making photographic art. Here is my group outside the Lunder Arts Center making cyanotypes.
The Hand Magazine
One of the Fells images will be featured in the next issue of The Hand Magazine! The upcoming issue happens to include work by some super talented female photographers---Jaime Johnson, Diana Bloomfield, and Jess Somers are among my favorites--- and I recommend checking them out. This publication is a terrific place to become acquainted with contemporary artists involved in image making from digital to the handmade photograph. https://thehandmagazine.wordpress.com/issue-9-july-2015-purchase-and-artists-links/
June 20, 2015 Longwood Gardens
This week I worked with Longwood Gardens to develop a workshop for their continuing education program that combines photography with horticultural focus. Next August I will present a full day of exploring light sensitive processes that utilize plant materials from the gardens! There will be a presentation on the history of employing plants to create photographs such as anthotypes and chlorophyll printing, followed by a hands on class. Mark your calendars, August 2016 will be here before you know it :)