Wet-Collodion Photographic Workshop with Tomasz Madajczak at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre

During the workshop, the participants will have a chance to create their own, unique 8×10″ collodion image, to take home. This will involve sensitizing the plate with liquid collodion, capturing the image using 8×10 large format Wehman field camera, developing and fixing of the plate. The collodion will be done on black aluminum in a process called tintype – A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel and used as the support for the photographic emulsion. Tintypes enjoyed their widest use during the 1860s and 1870s, but lesser use of the medium persisted into the early 20th century and it has been revived as a novelty and fine art form in the 21st.

Here is a short info about the process:
The wet-collodion process, also called collodion process, an early photographic technique invented by Englishman Frederick Scott Archer in 1851. The process involved adding a soluble iodide to a solution of collodion (cellulose nitrate) and coating a glass plate with the mixture.

Collodion process, mostly synonymous with the “collodion wet plate process”, requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.

Email t.madajczak@gmail.com with queries.

Dates: Friday 3 May 2019
Times: 11 am to 4 pm
Fee: €65, booking and deposit essential
Location: Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co.Cork
Booking: Booking essential on 02822090 or info@westcorkartscentre.com, deposit required to secure space