4-day Platinum-Palladium Masterclass with Constanza Isaza

A well-crafted platinum-palladium print is an object of extraordinary beauty, with a wide tonal scale that spans delicate, luminous highlights, silvery midtones, and rich, velvety shadows. It is this beauty, the prints’ exceptional archival stability, and the intrinsic value of the noble metals used, that makes platinum/palladium prints the most highly prized of all photographic processes.

The image is composed of finely divided platinum and palladium metals that are highly stable and resistant to environmental degradation. As with other historical photographic processes, fine art paper is hand-coated with photosensitive chemical solutions and, when dry, exposed under a negative to UV light, before being developed and processed.

This workshop offers a hands-on opportunity to explore this classic nineteenth-century printing technique, with no prior experience necessary. Topics covered include:

• Preparing digital image files

• Printing digital negatives

• Sensitising the paper

• Exposing, processing and drying the print

• Finishing, retouching, and presentation

• Calibrating digital negatives

• Advanced printing techniques

By the end of the workshop, participants should be able to:

• Calibrate and print negatives suitable for platinum-palladium printing

• Mix and coat platinum/palladium solutions on appropriate paper substrate, using brush and glass rod coating techniques

• Expose, develop, clear and dry platinum-palladium prints to current best archival standards

The length of this workshop will allow participants plenty of time to make prints, for example producing a small folio of prints or an edition, or experimenting with advanced techniques such as printing on lightweight Japanese paper.

Constanza is an analogue photography specialist with over two decades of experience in traditional photographic processes. She holds a BA in Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster and an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute. Constanza trained under Dr Peter Moseley, the UK's leading authority on photopolymer gravure and platinum-palladium printing, and has become a recognised specialist in these technically demanding processes. She is co-founder and Director of Lux Darkroom, London. Constanza’s work has been widely exhibited and is held in a number of private collections in the UK, Iceland, Norway, Canada, and the Americas.

Bei Anmeldung werden EUR 300,- als Anzahlung fällig und die restlichen EUR 900,- 2 Wochen vor Workshopbeginn. EUR 300,- downpayment on registration and the rest 2 weeks before the workshop.

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