FREE DEMO DAY

Join The 20/20 Photo Festival at The Halide Project on March 25th! See artists in action and learn more about their craft or process. This is a casual event, so no pre-registration is needed. Just bring your curiosity!

PRINT SWAP

And we’re hosting a PRINT SWAP! Our friends at Gravy Studio + Gallery are organizing it. Visit there for details and to enter. Then bring your prints to Halide on March 25th at 4pm. Enter by March 5th to be included in the Print Swap zine!

SATURDAY MARCH 25TH

INTUITIVE GUM BICHROMATE 11am - 1pm (darkroom)
with Laurie Beck Peterson
This intuitive gum bichromate demo will provide an opportunity to see how gum prints were originally made in the 19th century, using a single grayscale negative instead of the more contemporary method of using 3 or 4 color separations. Laurie Beck Peterson will be demonstrating work at various stages of the printing process to show how the layers build up and coalesce into a final layered print.
(A workshop on this process is scheduled at The Halide Project on May 6th and 7th.  Come see a preview!)

PINHOLE CAMERAS 11am - 1pm (classroom)
with Heather Palecek
Heather Palecek will be doing a hands-on pinhole demonstration in which you can both learn how to make your own pinhole camera and make one to take home with you.  Vintage tins will be provided as your base camera, and all materials and tools will be available for use. In addition, Heather will be making pinhole cameras out of unusual, thrifted household items to get you inspired to participate in Thrifted Pinhole Day on August 17th.

CYANOTYPES 2pm - 4pm (darkroom)
Make your own cyanotypes! Bring negatives (the larger the better) or objects for photograms. Use our custom UV bays or the sun, weather permitting 😜. Fabric provided by Jacquard.

HAND-TINTING BLACK AND WHITE PRINTS 2pm - 4pm (classroom)
with Sandra C. Davis
Demonstration of the traditional 19th century style of hand-tinting photographs using translucent oils to color matt fiber-based silver gelatin prints. As early as the daguerreotype, hand-tinting was done to color monotone photographic images. From 1860 through 1900 in Japan, it was brought to a high art by using translucent oils. America’s hand-tinting heyday spanned 1900 through the 1940s. With the invention of Kodachrome in 1935 and the wide availability of color print film and processing by the 1950s, hand-tinting was no longer a popular choice for color photographic images. However, it has endured as a unique artistic expression for fine art photographers.

Sandra C. Davis has been photographing since the late 1970s and discovered infrared photography in the late 1980s. Soon after making silver gelatin prints from her infrared negatives, she explored hand-tinting using Marshalls oils. She now photographs with a DSLR which has been converted to capture in infrared only. To continue working in the darkroom with her infrared captures, she prints digital negatives and makes silver prints to hand-tint with Marshalls oils.
(A workshop on this process is scheduled at The Halide Project on April 15th and 16th.  Come see a preview!)

PRINT SWAP 4pm
Visit Gravy for details!