"Platinum & Palladium"
with Scott Davis
July 30-August 4, 2023
Registration Deadline: June 30, 2023
Workshop Fee:
$995.00
(does not include food & lodging)
Save up to 25% off tuition with a combination of any 2 of the following discounts:
Early Bird Discount:
An early registration by
MAY15, 2023
Qualifies for a 10% discount on your workshop tuition.
Back to Back Discount:
Register and attend two classes consecutively and receive one night of your B&B stay FREE! Also receive a 10% discount off the second weeks tuition
Bring a Friend Discount:
15% off available when you both sign up for the same workshop.
Scott Davis is a photographer from Washington DC who specializes in platinum/palladium printing and large format film photography. He studied at Maryland Institute College of Art after completing his Bachelors degree in English and Spanish Literature at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty at Glen Echo Photoworks, a community photography center in the Washington DC suburbs in 2010 where he teaches alternative process printing, large format photography, and studio lighting. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.Scott Davis is a photographer from Washington DC who specializes in platinum/palladium printing and large format film photography. He studied at Maryland Institute College of Art after completing his Bachelors degree in English and Spanish Literature at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty at Glen Echo Photoworks, a community photography center in the Washington DC suburbs in 2010 where he teaches alternative process printing, large format photography, and studio lighting. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.The Platinum/Palladium processes were invented in the late 1870s in England by William Willis. They became the darling of the Pictorialists because of the extremely smooth, long tonal scale of the medium and the painterly look that could be achieved. Favored by some of the greatest photographers of the era, from Frederick Evans to Edward Steichen to Gertrude Kasebier and Alfred Stieglitz, platinum/palladium were used With the combined rise of the "straight photography" movement and the impact of World War 1 and the Russian Revolution on the supply of platinum and palladium, the processes fell out of favor and only re-emerged in the late 1960s/early 1970s with the Craft movement.
Today, the process is gaining in popularity as a reaction to digital photography but also as an offshoot of it. Modern pt/pd prints are very clearly handmade objects, but can be made in a wide variety of sizes and formats not easily achieved in the past due to the flexibility of the digitally created negative.
This introduction to Platinum/Palladium printing class will focus on creating and working from digitally enlarged negatives. We will discuss software and hardware requirements, proper tools and materials for printing, paper selection and handling, and coating and proper archival processing techniques. We will also discuss presentation and storage of your finished prints. Students are encouraged to bring at least four digital files at least 5x7 inches and not more than 8x10 inches at 300dpi, uncompressed (RAW, TIFF, or PSD preferred). If you only have film originals, we can print from those or digitize them for use in class if they are too small to print easily.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Scott Davis is a photographer from Washington DC who specializes in platinum/palladium printing and large format film photography. He studied at Maryland Institute College of Art after completing his Bachelors degree in English and Spanish Literature at Johns Hopkins University. He joined the faculty at Glen Echo Photoworks, a community photography center in the Washington DC suburbs in 2010 where he teaches alternative process printing, large format photography, and studio lighting. His work has been exhibited and published internationally.
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