Saturday & Sunday

January 23 & 24

10 AM - 5 PM

Class Size Max: 6

Gum bichromate is a beautiful process but can be difficult to learn because of the many variables involved in making a single print. This hands-on workshop introduces the materials and methods of full-color gum bichromate printing through lectures, presentations, and demonstrations, including an overview of the process's history. Students will learn how to prepare and manipulate digital negatives for color separation, with a detailed discussion of the digital workflow. Familiarity with Adobe Photoshop is helpful but not required.

By the end of the workshop, students will produce one full-color gum bichromate print with a minimum of four layers (using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black pigments) created from three separate negatives.

Tuition includes a $90 materials fee

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.

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TONY GONZALEZ is an artist currently living in New York City. He received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and his MFA from Yale University. In addition to working as a fine art photographer, Gonzalez has taught photography for over 30 years including at The Cooper Union, Pratt Institute and New York University. Since 2002, Gonzalez has been teaching full-time at Queens College, CUNY and is currently a Tenured Professor and Deputy Chair of the Photography & Imaging Program. Gonzalez is a contributing author for The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition and Third Edition by Christopher James and is featured most recently in the new book Gum Printing, A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice by Christina Z. Anderson and Alternate Processes in Photography by Brian Arnold.

Images © Tony Gonzalez and previous students

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