About the Course
Students will learn to create tintypes (positives on aluminum), ambrotypes (positives on glass), and glass negatives using chemistry and an outdoor darkroom. Students make large format images outside, and learn darkroom technique one-on-one with the teacher. No prior experience required. All materials and equipment provided. Min age: 18. For more info, email: gummist@gmail.com
Your Instructor
Mac Cosgrove-Davies
Mac teaches Historic Photo Processes at Photoworks.
These processes include:
gum bichromate, cyanotype, VanDyke, palladium, and carbon printing.
In addition to building the occasional camera, printing frame or other useful photographic gadget, he also creates books and presentation portfolios for his prints.
He is currently working on hand painted cyanotypes.
Mac is inspired by the work of Gertrude Kasebier and Edward Steichen
"I focus on my student’s interests. My classes are less about showing how I make prints and more about helping students make the prints they want to make."