Gum Bichromate Workshop w/ Scott McMahon, July 23-24 at Project Basho in Philadelphia

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This two-day workshop will focus on the expressive qualities of gum bichromate printing process. Students will learn how to make multi-layered gum prints using sensitized watercolor pigment and various types of light-resists: film negatives, pinhole, digital transparencies, etc.

This process allows one to work with a wide color palette, but can also be used to produce rich, monochromatic images as well. Students may also experiment with 3-color gum and gum over cyanotype.

Instruction on safe mixing of chemistry, paper sizing and print manipulation will be covered. Inventive image generation and the use of alternative cameras (pinhole, plastic, modified) will also be explored as students find ways to bring process and concept together.

Depending the complexity of your images, students will walk away with 2-3 finished prints by the workshop’s end.

Schedule:
Weekend Workshop
Saturday & Sunday, 10am – 5pm
July 23 & 24
Deadline: July 10

Workshop Fee: $450 + lab fee of $50 (now includes lunch!)

Materials Needed:
3-5 tubes of watercolor pigment
5-10 Large format negatives -OR- files for printing digital negatives

Instructor:
Scott McMahon received his MFA in photography from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and his BFA in Photography from UArts in Philadelphia. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at Border Art Residency in La Union, New Mexico and visiting Lecturer at The University of Texas, El Paso. His work has been published in Pinhole Photography, Rediscovering a Historic Technique by Eric Renner and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James. Scott works primarily with historic photographic techniques and is currently working on a series that incorporates video projections, machines, found objects, photographs and sound.

Project Basho
1305 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

projectbasho.org

For complete information on this workshop and to register please visit us here.