This is an immersive 4-hour workshop where you’ll learn the ins and outs of making high quality black and white enlargements in a darkroom.

*Please bring black and white 35mm or 120 film that you’d like to print during the workshop.

Syllabus:

Start with Introductions. 

Teacher gives darkroom tour and demonstrates how to use an enlarger and a verbal explanation of chemistry.

Students come back to classroom and look at film:

-Discussion on exposure density and contrast

-How to choose filters

-Discussion on cleaning film and dust prevention

-Teacher provides info about enlarging lenses and paper choices

-Teacher gives overview of how process works from setup to test strip to print, and what to expect in terms of reprinting

Everyone goes back into darkroom and sets up their enlarging stations.

Teacher demonstrates how to make a test strip, develop and analyze one, and make a print.

Students then work on their own for duration of workshop with teacher input.

The Halide Project will provide all chemistry and paper required.

Workshop Withdrawal Policy

We recommend choosing workshops with care after reading our withdrawal policy. If you have questions about any of our workshops, please contact dale@thehalideproject.org

Instructor bio:
Heather Palecek is an analogue photographer working in the mediums of pinhole photography, lumen printing, cyanotype, and mixed media cameraless photography. She uses these historical photography processes in experimental ways to collaborate with mother nature in her work. She has been working around the theme of relationships and connection for much of her artistic career; Many of her artistic pursuits explore the relationships humans have to mother nature and their impact on the environment. It is her goal as an artist to create artwork that makes people think about their own relationship with mother nature and inspire them to be more mindful.

Palecek has a degree in fine art education and photography from Montclair State University and has been a high school photography teacher in NJ since 2010. She teaches immersive workshops on alternative and historic photography processes and is the leader of the NJ Pinhole Club. Her award winning work has been exhibited locally and internationally. 

This workshop has been generously sponsored The Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.