Instructor: Rick Wright
Three consecutive Wednesdays: March 27, April 3, April 10, 2024 
6 – 9pm

In short, you’ll be slowing down a little to read your negatives, make a good solid of action via smart test prints, develop a good work print on your very first print, then refine your final image.   

What you’ll learn:

• The two main control levers of any print: 

  • TIME to control highlight/light tones 

  • CONTRAST to control mid-tones and shadows

• How to understand Contrast 00 thru 5 with a single negative illustration board

• How to read negatives

• How to make informative test strips to gain information

• The heart of Multi-Contrast Paper (the silver layers within and how they are affected by contrast gels) 

• How to work with RC paper for quicker processing, faster learning 

• How to mark up a work print for targeted dodging and burning

We’ll wrap up with a light critiques of everyone’s work prints and final print.

*This is a workshop geared toward students who are already comfortable in the darkroom and are looking to gain intermediate skills.

 The Halide Project will supply the required chemistry and RC paper. Students are asked to bring in negatives and fiber paper if they’d like to use it in the later sessions.

Rick Wright Bio 

Rick Wright initially trained as an oil painter at Princeton (BA) and Columbia University  (MFA), before embracing photography with studies at The ICP in New York. While there,  he studied with: Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, Danny Lyon, and John Loengard. He  currently practices architectural photography, shoots 4x5 film landscapes, and hosts  photography seminars and critiques at The Halide Project, Fleisher Art Memorial, and  Peters Valley School of Craft. 

Rick says, “Photography is 93% of my life. The other 7% is occupied by film camera  repair, short story writing, and motorcycle photo trips. I chose photography over painting  for its speed, unpredictability, and ready bends of reality.” 

Rick’s work resides in several permanent collections including the Philadelphia Museum  of Art, Johnson & Johnson Collection, and University of Pennsylvania, and is exhibited  internationally. In addition to a 2020 museum solo show at The Griffin Museum in MA,  he was published in Lenswork Magazine, and appeared in the First Zagreb Photo  Biennial.  

Rick lives in the Center City District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Website: www.rickwrightstudio.com

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