Cardinalis cardinalis, photograph by Leah Sobsey
Leah Sobsey will be teaching the Alternative Process Workshop for photography in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site.
Leah Sobsey is an artist and educator. She received her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2001 and completed the Resident Certificate Program at the Maine Photographic Workshops in 1997. Her work has been exhibited widely and is in private collections across the country. In addition to the Center for Documentary Studies, she has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, Duke University, and the Maine Photographic Workshops. She currently teaches at UNC-Greensboro.
Alternative Process Workshop
All Levels | Taught by Leah Sobsey
September 10–11, 2011
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
Course fee: $155
This introductory class will explore alternative printing processes in photography. We will start by creating digital negatives from photographs, scans, found objects, and text. We will then use the digital negatives to create cyanotypes and Van Dyke prints, 19th-century printing processes that rely on UV light to create images. Both processes are easy to use at home with no darkroom set-up. In addition, we will explore how the advent of new technology opens up endless possibilities in alternative photographic processes. You will need to bring negatives, digital images, a digital camera, and any text that you are interested in using in your prints.
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