MAPh | MGA workshop: Traditional albumen printing

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MGA workshop: Traditional albumen printing

19 March 2022

Samuel BOURNE
Taj Mahal, Agra c. 1860
albumen print
16.0 x 20.6 cm
courtesy of the Museum of Art & Photography (MAP) (Bengaluru)

Saturday 10.30am – 4.30pm

Co-facilitated by Keira Hudson

$125 per person, $85 Friends of MGA
Ages 18+
Limited places, registration essential

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Learn about the historical albumen printing process whilst making and printing your own albumen photographic prints.

In response to the significant and stunning historic albumen printed photographs on display in our current exhibition Visions of India: from the colonial to the contemporary we are running a session teaching the historical process from start to finish in this full day workshop.

Participants will learn about the history of this early photographic printing method covering all aspects of the process including albumen fermentation, coating, sensitising, exposing, and developing, and have the opportunity to print their own albumen photographs.

This workshop is facilitated by MGA Education and Public Engagement Coordinator Jessica Schwientek and alternative photographer Keira Hudson.

Albumen printing is a contact printing process that requires monochromatic negatives of the same size that they will be printed. Participants can bring their own negatives with the best results coming from medium and large format negatives. Both analogue and digitally printed negatives can be used in the process.

MGA can assist in creating digital printed negatives for participants to use during the workshop upon request. To allow sufficient time to arrange negative printing this must be arranged no later than March 12 by contacting workshop facilitator Jessica Schwientek.

All materials provided except where listed
BYO lunch (or dine in the on-site café)
Bring any black-and-white negatives you have and wish to make prints of – keep in mind that this is a contact printing method, and all prints will be the same size as your negatives – medium and large format negatives are recommended
Wear suitably comfortable clothing, disposable aprons provided

Please note: This process uses albumen from eggs. Please do not book if you are vegan or have an egg allergy. Participants must be 18 years of age or older.

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MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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