Sunday

May 19

10 AM - 6 PM

Class Size Max: 6

In this hands-on workshop, participants will experiment with various lumen printing techniques on Penumbra’s rooftop, at Madison Square Park, and on the streets of Manhattan. Participants will learn to make cameraless images with onsite plants and other found materials before returning to Penumbra's darkroom to process at the end of the day.

Lumen prints are made using gelatin silver paper, which is exposed to light and placed directly into the fixer. Ethereal pastel tones emerge in the process, determined by the time of exposure, the type of light, and the kind of paper used in the process. Students will experiment with different techniques to better understand the factors that influence the colors of the gelatin silver paper. This playful one-day workshop is open to all ages and families!

$50 materials fee included in tuition

Please note that if the weather does not permit, the rain date for this workshop will be June 8.

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Rachelle Bussières (Quebec City, Canada) received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Addressing the impact of light on our psyche, environment and social structure, Rachelle Bussières’ work is at the intersection of photography and sculpture, moving through a collision of materials and documents through the lumen photographic process. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Melanie Flood Projects (Portland, USA), Penumbra Foundation (NYC, USA), Johansson Projects (Oakland, USA) and Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco, USA). Awards include the Penumbra Foundation Workspace Fellowship, Canada Council for the Arts (Research and Creation), an honorable mention for the Snider Prize from the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and being a Finalist for the Aperture Foundation Portfolio Prize. Some recent group shows include the World Trade Center (NYC), San Francisco State University, Rubber Factory (NYC), Seattle Pacific University (Seattle, WA), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn), Soil Gallery (Seattle, WA), the General French Consulate (San Francisco, CA), the Wing (San Francisco, CA), the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, CO), Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco, CA), Galerie l’Inlassable (Paris, FR), Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA) and Present Company (Brooklyn, NY). She was an artist-in-residence at Silver Art Projects, Penumbra Foundation, Banff Center, Sim, Vermont Studio Center and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her work is present in various public, corporate and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Four Seasons Hotel, SFMOMA Library and Archives, Facebook (commission mural) in Sunnyvale, Instagram Inc. in San Francisco and Penumbra Foundation in New York City.



Images © Rachelle Bussières