WORKSHOPS – Rewild your photo skills!
At the festival center we invite you to test and develop your photographic skills with a number of workshops that celebrate photography and old school techniques – from cyanotypes to wet plate and polaroid transfer. You can even learn the Japanese technique of stab stitching and sew your own photo or note book.
From cyanotypes to polaroids
Learn how to do beautiful Cyanotypes, an old analogue photographic technique. On this 3-hour course, you will be introduced to all stages of the technique and have the opportunity to try it out with simple tools. The workshop will be conducted by Barbara Katzin and Charlotte Siewartz from Fotografi på Godsbanen in Aarhus and takes place on 3 and 4 June.
We also host a workshop exploring the practice of polaroid transfer in which a short introduction to Polaroid’s techniques are included, after which the participants themselves try the technique and its possibilities. The workshop is organised by Sille Juline Høghly Petersen, paper conservator and artist herself.
The magic of wet plate photography
On 4 June you have a rare chance to get an introduction to wet plate photography! Explore the roots of photography and delve into the magic of the 19th century technique of wet plate photography with the professional photographer Henrik Wichmann. By the end of the workshop you get your own print home with you.
Japanese book binding techniques
Finally, on the 10 June we will host the workshop ‘Thread the needle’ in which you learn to sew your own notebook with the oh-so-elegant and versatile Japanese stab binding and the functional and easy Singer stitch. The workshop is taught by Julia Mejnertsen who is also the founder of the publishing house Blankt Papir Press.
Be quick to sign up – limited seats
To participate in the festival center workshops you need to sign up directly with the organiser and please note that there is a fee for materials to sign up. The festival ticket to enter the festival center is not included in the fee.
Find more information about each workshop in the festival center and at our festival partners here:
Workshops at the Festival Center
4 June – ‘Wet Plate photography’
Workshop at ours partners
3 June – Open House and workshops at FABRIKKEN for Kunst&Design
8 June – ‘Home Writing’ at Fotografisk Center
9 June – Photo demo w. Ulla Hauer at Kunst 86
Polaroid Transfer workshop at 2022 festival – on a rainy day. Video: Sonia Tomegeros
Workshop // Cyanotypes
Cyanotype is an old photographic technique invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842, based on a photosensitive emulsion that reacts to ultraviolet light, for example sunlight. Within the first year of this discovery, Anna Atkins, believed to be the first woman to produce a photograph, applied the process to stock, ferns, seaweed and other plant life and published the first book ever illustrated entirely with photographs.
You place leaves, paper clips, negatives, etc. directly on paper which is coated with a light-sensitive emulsion and let the sunlight expose the paper, so that a silhouette effect is created. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and inexpensive process to produce copies of blueprints, called blueprints. The technique is used today primarily by artists.
The process is unique in that it is a form of photography that does not require a camera or an expensive darkroom. See and experience a photographic technique where UV light is your partner and where you expose pictures in the open with the help of the sun and develop them with water. The possibilities for the most beautiful blueprints are endless.
On this 3-hour course, you will be introduced to all stages of the technique and have the opportunity to try it out with simple tools. You are welcome to bring pressed flowers, negatives printed on transparencies, lace, etc., but there will be several different materials available on the day of the course.
Would you like to try your hand at this beautiful alternative photography technique? Then register for the course in cyanotopy by writing to photographyatgodsbanen@gmail.com
The workshop is taught by Barbara Katzin and Charlotte Siewartz
Workshop // Cyanotypes
Cyanotype is an old photographic technique invented by Sir John Herschel in 1842, based on a photosensitive emulsion that reacts to ultraviolet light, for example sunlight. Within the first year of this discovery, Anna Atkins, believed to be the first woman to produce a photograph, applied the process to stock, ferns, seaweed and other plant life and published the first book ever illustrated entirely with photographs.
You place leaves, paper clips, negatives, etc. directly on paper which is coated with a light-sensitive emulsion and let the sunlight expose the paper, so that a silhouette effect is created. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and inexpensive process to produce copies of blueprints, called blueprints. The technique is used today primarily by artists.
The process is unique in that it is a form of photography that does not require a camera or an expensive darkroom. See and experience a photographic technique where UV light is your partner and where you expose pictures in the open with the help of the sun and develop them with water. The possibilities for the most beautiful blueprints are endless.
On this 3-hour course, you will be introduced to all stages of the technique and have the opportunity to try it out with simple tools. You are welcome to bring pressed flowers, negatives printed on transparencies, lace, etc., but there will be several different materials available on the day of the course.
Would you like to try your hand at this beautiful alternative photography technique? Then register for the course in cyanotopy by writing to photographyatgodsbanen@gmail.
The workshop is taught by Barbara Katzin and Charlotte Siewartz