Workshop Advanced – Analog Darkroom Printing for Professionals

Gelatin silver prints were invented in 1873 by Liverpool photographer Peter Mawdsley and until our present time this negative-positive process is a standard for high quality printing. Photographs manufactured that way have great archival quality, show a fine distinction in the dark tones and convey an unmatched depth of the image. Which is why these prints are considered as of high value among collectors.

The workshop “Advanced – Analog Darkroom Printing for Professionals” with Martin Weinhold is addressing people who possess elementary knowledge and experience in the darkroom. We invite photographers and ambitious self-taught artists who want to refine their abilities in gelatin silver printing for enhancing the expression of their images.

As the workshop’s goal is refining the printing results, participants will be introduced to better managing grey tones and improving detail and texture in the image’s shadows and highlights. In the beginning Martin Weinhold will offer a summary of the currently obtainable papers and photo chemicals and how they can be combined for specific creative ideas and purposes.

Some of the workshop’s hands-on topics:
– burn exposure / dodging / variable-contrast exposure
– shadow and highlight management for appropriate image reproduction
– developer grey tone management
– two-tray process for improving tonal values

Additionally Martin Weinhold will give advice with respect to archival processing and washing, the drying of fiber based paper for yielding perfectly flat fine art prints. The workshop will conclude with a group discussion of the participants’ printing results.

About: Photographer Martin Weinhold works constantly in his darkroom laboratory for more than 20 years. For his outstanding photo documentaries he insists on using analog black and white film which he processes exclusively in his own darkroom facility in Berlin, where also his fine-art prints are manufactured.

Weinhold grew up in Berlin. Since 2006 Canada became his second home country. He studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In his degree dissertation he elaborated on theories about the individuality in portrait photography. For many years he was working as a cameraman for various German TV channels. Today he is a freelance photographer, author and instructor for visual media in Germany and Canada. He dedicated his life to documentary photography and the contextualized portrait. His largest project, WorkSpace Canada, shapes and defines his creative work now for more than 15 years.

More information about Martin Weinhold and his work can be found at:
www.martinweinhold.com
www.workspacecanadaproject.com

The Workshop takes place at the p: berlin laboratories in Berlin – Schöneweide. We provide a darkroom laboratory equipped with a number of excellent Durst 4×5“ enlargers, as well as the necessary photographic paper, chemicals and test negatives (medium format 2 ¼ x 2 ¼). Bringing own negative material is recommended.

This workshop is also available in German.