Workshops

Penumbra Foundation offers more than 100 workshops and classes per year. Participants can choose from a range of processes and subjects to explore including historical photographic processes, digital tools, lighting techniques, photo editing and photobook projects.

Some of the processes we teach include: Daguerreotype; Platinum, Salt, Carbon and Cyanotype printing; Wet-Collodion; ​Calotype; ​Lumen Prints; Photogravure; Albumen; Chemigrams and Gum Bichromate, among others.

Members save 15% on workshop tuition.

*Upcoming workshops are scheduled below. A minimum of 3 students is required for all workshops to run.

Workshops are only available to participants aged 17 and older unless otherwise discussed.

In most cases, our registration deadline is 24 hrs prior to the start time of a workshop. If there is a workshop you would like to attend but it is not listed or sold out please contact molly@penumbrafoundation.org.

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“Penumbra Foundation is a great learning environment and supportive community for keeping alive increasingly rare knowledge about a range of beautiful and fascinating photographic processes. I’m so grateful that it exists and thankful to true talent and dedication of all who make it possible.” - Mariah Robertson, November 2017

”The quality of instruction was outrageously fantastic. I only wish that I had the resources to take a different workshop every week.” - Jessica Keister, December 2018