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Announcing One-On-One Photogravure Workshops - Making and Using Imagon HD Polymer Plates - with David Kachel
A bit over three and a half years ago I started the journey of teaching myself the photogravure process using Imagon HD photopolymer and the, at the time, new direct-to-plate approach to making the positive image.
Over this period, people have asked me about a book and/or workshops and I put everyone off because I needed to master the process and work out all the kinks still plaguing both Imagon HD and the direct-to-plate approach at the time. The kinks are out and the process under control. So…
I will immediately begin teaching one-on-one workshops in the direct-to-plate photogravure process using polymer Imagon HD plates that you make yourself. This is the most beautiful, least expensive, and most versatile modern materials approach to photogravure. Prints are drop-dead gorgeous with very deep blacks and more room for interpreting an image than you can stand.
The modern photogravure process via light sensitive polymer materials is far simpler than traditional copper plate photogravure, more versatile and drastically less expensive compared to copper or even other polymer plate approaches, making the process at last available to the everyday working fine art photographer.
Workshops will be 3 days and cost $350 plus materials (~$100, or less). Follow-up assistance via mail and email is included. (This cost will go up significantly after the end of the year.) A $150 nonrefundable deposit is required with the balance due on the morning of the first day of the workshop. Since these are one-on-one workshops, rescheduling can occur without loss of deposit if at least two weeks notice is given.
Workshops are open to anyone, but I prefer to start with younger people (under age 45) who are in a position to teach others via university positions or your own workshop schedule (i.e., you already teach workshops and fully plan to teach this). The goal is to get as many people out there teaching others as rapidly as possible, so as to make the photogravure process a mainstream alternative printing process option for serious photographers.
Workshops take place in my gallery/studio in the beautiful tourist magnet town of Bisbee, Arizona. Reasonable lodging and restaurant options are plentiful, year-round. Contact me to make arrangements for your one-on-one workshop at david AT davidkachel DOT com.
A bit of biography:
I am a well-acknowledged expert on the Zone System of ANSEL ADAMS having published many articles on the subject, am the inventor of more than a dozen techniques for analogue photographic materials control for both B&W and color, have taught many workshops on these subjects both in the US and for Kodak Mexico, have work in multiple museum collections and was a Contributing Editor to the well-known Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques magazine.
A bit over three and a half years ago I started the journey of teaching myself the photogravure process using Imagon HD photopolymer and the, at the time, new direct-to-plate approach to making the positive image.
Over this period, people have asked me about a book and/or workshops and I put everyone off because I needed to master the process and work out all the kinks still plaguing both Imagon HD and the direct-to-plate approach at the time. The kinks are out and the process under control. So…
I will immediately begin teaching one-on-one workshops in the direct-to-plate photogravure process using polymer Imagon HD plates that you make yourself. This is the most beautiful, least expensive, and most versatile modern materials approach to photogravure. Prints are drop-dead gorgeous with very deep blacks and more room for interpreting an image than you can stand.
The modern photogravure process via light sensitive polymer materials is far simpler than traditional copper plate photogravure, more versatile and drastically less expensive compared to copper or even other polymer plate approaches, making the process at last available to the everyday working fine art photographer.
Workshops will be 3 days and cost $350 plus materials (~$100, or less). Follow-up assistance via mail and email is included. (This cost will go up significantly after the end of the year.) A $150 nonrefundable deposit is required with the balance due on the morning of the first day of the workshop. Since these are one-on-one workshops, rescheduling can occur without loss of deposit if at least two weeks notice is given.
Workshops are open to anyone, but I prefer to start with younger people (under age 45) who are in a position to teach others via university positions or your own workshop schedule (i.e., you already teach workshops and fully plan to teach this). The goal is to get as many people out there teaching others as rapidly as possible, so as to make the photogravure process a mainstream alternative printing process option for serious photographers.
Workshops take place in my gallery/studio in the beautiful tourist magnet town of Bisbee, Arizona. Reasonable lodging and restaurant options are plentiful, year-round. Contact me to make arrangements for your one-on-one workshop at david AT davidkachel DOT com.
A bit of biography:
I am a well-acknowledged expert on the Zone System of ANSEL ADAMS having published many articles on the subject, am the inventor of more than a dozen techniques for analogue photographic materials control for both B&W and color, have taught many workshops on these subjects both in the US and for Kodak Mexico, have work in multiple museum collections and was a Contributing Editor to the well-known Darkroom & Creative Camera Techniques magazine.
