September 20

2pm - 6pm

NATURE Lab, 3319 6th Ave., Troy, NY (part of the Sanctuary for Independent Media)

Join us for a workshop focused on alternative ways to develop images. Participants will use plant-based materials to develop photograms with Le Ratoire, a French group of artists. This workshop will span a few hours and is co-sponsored by iEAR Presents and The Sanctuary for Independent Media.

In this workshop, Le Ratoire artist collective will work with participants to learn how to make black & white film/photo developer using just local plants, ashes, and water. No industrial products, nothing from the store! We will go over the techniques of photograms (also known as rayograms) and phytography, two ways of exposing and making images on photo paper without needing to use a camera. We will explain how to choose, harvest, and process the plants for the making of a developer, exploring the properties of the plants that can develop the silver halides in photo emulsion (the same process works for all photo sensitive materials - film and paper).

Please register for this event.