Våt Plate Collodion med Jill Enfield

Workshopen skjer på NORDphotography's kreative senter SAGA, beliggende på Inderøy i Trøndelag. Nærmeste flyplass er Værnes. Det går tog fra flyplassen opp til SAGA.

Workshopen foregår på engelsk:
This workshop will teach you to create ambrotypes and tintypes using wet plate techniques from the 1860s, with one of the most experienced instructors of alternative processes, photographer Jill Enfield.

The collodion process, which is said to have been invented in about 1850, was the first widely used photographic process that produced a negative image on a transparent photographic medium. Other methods of the time, such as the Daguerreotype, produced a one-of-a-kind positive image, which could not be replicated easily. With the collodion process, however, the photographer could make an unlimited number of prints from a single negative. In addition to the convenience of creating negatives, the collodion process had numerous other advantages. It was an inexpensive process, especially in comparison with the daguerreotype.

The process starts in the darkroom by pouring photosensitive chemicals on a prepared glass plate, this plate is then inserted into the back of the camera body where the film normally goes. The camera is then taken out of the darkroom and students have approximately 10 minutes to make their picture before needing to develop. Students work with both glass plates and aluminum. The latter produces positives.

The workshop will cover the entire process from cutting and preparing glass & aluminum, mixing and handling chemicals, safety procedures, making portable darkrooms, assessment of exposure time, evaluation of results, and all that goes into mastering wet plate collodion.

We will have test cameras for students, but we suggest that students bring their own cameras. The Kodak Brownie Camera (large size) suits this process very well. Large format cameras are also well-suited. Ebay is a good resource for Kodak Brownie Cameras.

We will use local people as models on this worksop.

About Jill Enfield
Jill Enfield is one of America's most experienced and respected alternative process artists. She has taught handcoloring and non-silver techniques at Parsons School of Design, The New School, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York University, Long Island University and the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as in workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Jill’s more recent emphasis has been on the wet plate collodion process, originally used by Matthew Brady during the Civil War.

Her work is in the collections of RJ Reynolds Company, Southeast Banking Corporation, The Amon Carter Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Hotel Parisi in LaJolla, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin in Colombia, where her work was shown during a three month exhibition that traveled throughout the country. Jill's personal work has appeared in such publications as National Geographic, Camera Arts, PDN, Hasselblad's FORUM Magazine, Nikon World, Camera & Darkroom Techniques, Archive Books, Step by Step, Shutterbug, Popular Photography, Digital Camera and ZOOM.

She has been featured in over thirty shows during her career, including an exhibition at The Vivienne Esders Gallery in Paris. Nikon has honored Jill by featuring her on their website as a "Legend Behind The Lens" photographer as well as in their Full-Line product guide and an upcoming issue of Nikon World.

Jill's first book on non-silver techniques titled Photo Imaging: A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes was published by Watson-Guptill, Amphoto in November 2002 and won the Golden Light Award for Best Technical Book of 2003 through the Maine Photographic Workshop. Her second book, Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular historical and Contemporary Techniques, was published by Focal Press in 2013, has already sold out and is currently being prepared for a second printing.

STED:
Workshopen foregår på SAGA Senter for Fotografi. SAGA har en egen hotell del hvor deltakerne kan bo. Overnatting på SAGA Hotell inkludert frokost og lunsj - se workshop beskrivelsen for detaljer og pris.

WORKSHOP TUITION:
NOK 8.400,- (deposit NOK 3.400,-). Dette inkluderer ikke reise, overnatting eller måltider. Denne workshopen har et material gebyr på kr 900,-. Dette dekker alt av utstyr og kjemi som er nødvendig for Våt Plate Collodion, ink plasthansker og vernebriller. Vi vil og ha endel antikke kamera til utlån, men anbefaler at man har med sitt eget, slik at man lærer et kamera å kjenne som man og kan bruke etter workshopen. Du må selv ha med forkle samt klær og sko som tåler å bli tilgriset av kjemisøl.

PÅMELDING:
Påmeldingsfrist er satt til 26 MAI.

Påmelding og full workshop beskrivelsen finner du på vår nettside www.nordphotography.com. Vi oppfordrer til å lese hele workshop beskrivelsen før du melder deg på. Det er bindende påmelding på våre workshops.