This playful and immersive workshop is for beginners and professionals alike (having some darkroom experience will help you understand and advance through the processes quickly and easily.)

In this workshop you will be introduced to a variety of alternative darkroom printing techniques such as Photogram, Enlargement, Cliche-Verre, Solarization, Chemigram, Selective Development, and creative Dodging/Burning. Then, you will be able to use a combination of personal negatives and/or found negatives and multiple processes to create unique silver gelatin prints of your own. Students will have studio time to experiment with these techniques and be given guidance and advice as needed. Heather will teach you through demonstration, slideshow, discussion, and then encourage you to play and experiment. Students should bring negatives with them to work with, or they can use a selection of found negatives.

*Students should already have a basic understanding of how to make an enlargement in the darkroom to participate in this workshop.

The Halide Project will provide all chemistry, paper, and materials required.

Workshop Withdrawal Policy

We recommend choosing workshops with care after reading our withdrawal policy. If you have questions about any of our workshops, please contact dale@thehalideproject.org 

Instructor bio:
Heather Palecek is an analogue photographer working in the mediums of pinhole photography, lumen printing, cyanotype, and mixed media cameraless photography. She uses these historical photography processes in experimental ways to collaborate with mother nature in her work. She has been working around the theme of relationships and connection for much of her artistic career; Many of her artistic pursuits explore the relationships humans have to mother nature and their impact on the environment. It is her goal as an artist to create artwork that makes people think about their own relationship with mother nature and inspire them to be more mindful.

Palecek has a degree in fine art education and photography from Montclair State University and has been a high school photography teacher in NJ since 2010. She teaches immersive workshops on alternative and historic photography processes and is the leader of the NJ Pinhole Club. Her award winning work has been exhibited locally and internationally.

Website: www.heatherpalecek.squarespace.com

Instagram: @heather.palecek.art

Location: Doylestown, PA

This workshop has been generously sponsored The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.