Saturday & Sunday

February 28 & March 1

10 AM - 6 PM

Class Size: 8 Max

Prerequisite: This class is best suited to those with previous experience platinum printing, alternative process, and/or contact printing.

This workshop introduces students to developing platinum palladium prints using glycerine, a 19th century method to control development, increase grain, and produce painterly effects. Participants will hand coat paper with platinum palladium sensitizers and use glycerine-diluted developer with a brush for gentle restraint and locally selective contrast control. Learn how glycerine’s viscosity slows development, preserves latent salts, and provides the opportunity for image-masking and experimentation. Before class, students will submit 4 images to be made into digital negatives which they will use to create prints during the workshop. The first day covers the history of this nuanced process as well as chemistry, coating, exposing, and developing. The second day continues with printing and developing with glycerine. All materials are provided. Print size is limited to 8x10. 

Tuition includes a $150 materials fee.

Caroline Minchew is a lens-based artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her work examines natural cycles and transformation in landscape and myth. Interested in analog practices, Caroline has been printing with the platinum process for the last 10 years. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BA from Sewanee University of the South and attended residences at High-Desert Test Sites, NARS Foundation, Mudhouse Arts, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, and Burren College of Art. Her platinum prints are housed in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American History and the National Gallery of Art Photograph Study Collection in Washington, DC

Images © Caroline Minchew

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