In a small group, you will be taken through each basic component and process of using darkroom equipment, culminating in creating your very own black and white photographs from your own negatives, using Ilford chemicals and photographic paper provided by the tutor.
In one day you will cover:
- Introduction to the room and materials & health & safety
- Different kinds of format
- Setting up the enlarger
- Making a contact print
- Making a test strip
- Creating the first print
- Using filters
- Dodging & Burning
- Creating your final prints
- Summary
Tutor: Rachel Brewster Wright
Founder of Little Vintage Photography, Rachel has taught the magic and fun of traditional analogue photography techniques since 2014. She use vintage and toy cameras, runs workshops and photowalks.
Rachel has exhibited much of her work and in January 2019 was nominated for an RPS #HundredHeroines award and won Top 10 in the International Wedding Photographer of the Year Awards (film photography category). In March 2019 she delivered pop-up demonstrations & presentations at The Photography Show at the NEC as part of the #WomenWhoPhoto initiative.
Date
Sunday 1st October, 10am-5pm
Venue
dot-art Darkroom
The Cotton Exchange Building
Bixteth Street
Liverpool
L3 9JR
Cost
£75 for 1 full day
Materials
You will need to bring ready-processed black & white 35mm negatives, already cut up into strips in a negative file/sleeve to work/print from in the darkroom.
All other chemicals and papers will be provided on the day.
Life Line exhibits two photography series set along the West Kirby waterfront. Employing magical realism and unique printing techniques, Cooper’s photographs place their inhabitants in a dreamlike world.
Cooper began this series when the old West Kirby promenade still existed, and these photographs also track the development of the new flood defence wall.
EVENTS:
Saturday 7th October, 12-1pm: artist talk by Jonathan Cooper. Free
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Jonathan Cooper studied Photography at Withens Lane College in Wallasey, where his tutor included the renowned street photographer Tom Wood. Having previously worked in London and Australia Cooper is now based in Wirral.
Skittles has joined forces with Gay Times, Queer Britain, and Getty Images to provide a sneak peek into the group’s upcoming exhibition, Queer Joy.
Popping up in Liverpool’s iconic Grand Hall, Royal Albert Dock from 11th – 13th May, the free exhibition will explore the concept of “Queer Joy” – defined as the deep happiness that brings warmth and purpose to queer lives.
The exhibition will showcase striking portraits of queer people, captured by a variety of emerging international photographers. Through these images, the pop-up exhibition aims to shine a light on the unfiltered, queer self-expression that is vital to the LGBTQ+ community and highlight the feeling of Queer Joy.
The exhibition Home. Perspectives brings together diverse projects from 17 Ukrainian artists who offer distinct approaches to image creation, and ways of seeing and thinking about Ukraine.
The exhibition is free and held 5 – 21 May, 10am-5pm, with a launch night on the 4th, 6 – 8pm. To apply for free tickets to the launch event see here.
The exhibition is curated by Mariama Attah, Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi, together with six invited curators representing different cultural institutions across Europe and the UK.
The invited curators are Kateryna Filyuk (IZOLYATSIA. Platform for cultural initiatives, Kyiv and 89 books, Palermo), Ben Harman (Stills – centre for photography, Edinburgh), Louise Pearson (National Galleries of Scotland), Amelie Schüle (FOAM Amsterdam), Monika Szewczyk (The Arsenal Gallery, Białystok), and Lindsay Taylor (the University of Salford Art Collection, Salford) who shared their perspectives on Ukrainian photography through the projects they selected and commented on.
Open Eye Gallery is proud to be a commissioned organisation for EuroFestival, which will take over Liverpool in the lead up to The Eurovision Song Contest.
Working together with Ukrainian curators Viktoria Bavykina and Max Gorbatskyi (Ukrainian.Photographies) and partner organisations in Liverpool City Region, Open Eye Gallery will produce exhibitions, publications and events in the gallery and across Liverpool city region, reflecting on the question What does home mean?
With over 40 venues, this is the largest exhibit of Ukrainian photography in the UK.
Singing Our Socks Off choir will sing welcome songs about belonging together at 6 pm. Speeches 6.30 pm.
The launch will celebrate:
- 11 new commissions by Ukrainian photographers & UK poets, creating diptychs in public spaces and on Merseyrail sites;
- 6 exhibitions featuring 20 Ukrainian photographers across 6 cultural venues;
- an app inviting people to 5 Home Trails taking you to 25 independent dwell spaces hosting a Ukrainian artwork and encouraging everyone to collect the postcard and respond with their own words;
- a book, a zine, a film, a school activity pack, a new writing competition, poetry readings, community workshops and events.
All selections have now been made for the Williamson Open Art & Photography Exhibition 2023, the 60th edition of the exhibition
Every year since 1962, barring 2021 due to the pandemic, the Williamson Open has aimed to reflect the current active visual arts scene in Wirral. It’s open to artists and photographers who have connections with Wirral through birth, education, residency or occupation. Work in all media is accepted.
This year’s exhibition promises to be another showcase of the fascinating and diverse visual arts being created locally.
The exhibition runs 5th April – 29th April 2023 (closed Good Friday 7th April) in Galleries 1&2. For full visiting information check their Visit Us page.
Apollo Remastered at Birkenhead’s Williamson Art Gallery & Museum will showcase spectacular images from Andy Saunders’ extraordinary bestselling book on a never-before-seen scale.
The original NASA photographic film from the Apollo missions is some of the most important and valuable film in existence. It is securely stored in a frozen vault at Johnson Space Center, Houston. It never leaves the building – in fact, the film rarely leaves the freezer.
The images it contains include the most significant moments in our history, as humankind left the confines of our home planet for the first time and set foot on another world.
For half a century, almost every image of the Moon landings publicly available was produced from a lower-quality copy of these originals. Until now…
Craig Easton’s solo exhibition Is Anybody Listening? features two projects: Bank Top and Thatcher’s Children.
This exhibition forms the starting point of a regional tour accompanied by an engagement programme Our Time, Our Place, to empower young people in local communities. This programme will include discussions on photo ethics, photography workshops and a mentoring programme.
Craig Easton won the Sony World Photographer of the Year in 2021 with his series Bank Top. He shoots long-term documentary projects exploring issues around social policy, identity and a sense of place. His new book, Thatcher’s Children, is published February 2023.
‘Photie Man’ celebrates the internationally-acclaimed Irish artist Tom Wood (b. 1951), showcasing his iconic images of Liverpool and bringing together his work from across all decades, it will be the first major retrospective of Tom’s work in Liverpool.
Embraced locally as ‘photieman’, Wood has dedicated much of his career to the people and places of Liverpool and Merseyside to create an intimate, diverse and knowing portrait of the city and the surrounding area, and his pioneering photographs capture a definitive phase in the social and political history of the region. He is one of the most influential photographers working today.
Highlights include epic and renowned projects such as ‘Looking for Love’ from the Chelsea Reach nightclub in New Brighton, and Wood’s widely-praised Bus Series (‘All Zones Off Peak’). Unseen long-term studies of two major local institutions, Cammell Laird Shipyard and Rainhill Hospital, feature alongside his images taken around the city’s football grounds.
The exhibition will also explore Wood’s use of found photographs and landscape photography taken in Ireland and North Wales, alongside never-before seen film work from the artist.
Tickets go on sale early 2023
Photography exhibition documenting the spaces and people of the 10A and 257 bus routes which connect St Helens to Kirkby and the borough of Knowsley.
Ranging from still life to portraiture, Heather shoots in analogue photography and video, documenting intimate moments and capturing portraiture, to create work that acts as a diary of the people in his life and the things they’re drawn to.
Heather’s new photographs will forge a connection between the two boroughs Take Over inhabits this year – Knowsley and St Helens.
This event is part of Take Over 2022.
Tickets and access information: https://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project-and-events/events/take-over-route10a
