Create Lumen Prints
$595
This hands-on workshop is a combination of historical (alternative) and digital processes to create camera-less photographic images. You will learn how to create a Lumen Print (Solar Photogram), which is a camera-less photographic process, using traditional photographic paper/film and UV light from the Queensland sun. You will also will learn how to scan and edit your lumen prints to create digital versions. In addition to this, you will learn how to fix lumen prints using traditional photographic darkroom processes.
Participation in this course will enable you to experience the physicality and tactility of traditional historic camera-less photographic image creation along with cutting-edge digital technology.
You will leave with your very own lumen prints to take home.
All necessary photographic materials are supplied but refer to further section for additional materials to bring along to the workshop.
A full refund will be given if the workshop is cancelled due to a lack of registrations, or an unforeseen circumstances caused by the Centre.
Tea and coffee is provided.
Street parking.
- Organic materials (plants, vegetable and/ or fruit).
- Fabrics and small objects (preferably flat).
- All necessary photographic materials are supplied.
- Notebook
- Sunscreen
Queensland Centre for Photography,
6, Maud Street, Newstead, Q 4006
- Street parking
The Tutor:
Shehab Uddin is a visual artist, educator, and documentary photographer from Bangladesh who completed his Doctor of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University in 2017. His key interests lie in socio-political documentation which he translates into highly emotive visual stories. Shehab has worked as a leading photographer for Drik photo agency and Daily Sangbad, the oldest newspaper in Bangladesh, as well as several corporate and non-profit organizations. His work has been exhibited around the world and won numerous awards, including the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, Alexia Foundation Professional Grant, All Roads (HM) National Geographic, WHO, and Asahi Shimbun. Shehab’s images have been published regularly in major international news magazines including The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Time Journal of Photography, The Politiken, The Guardian, Times Daily, New Internationalist, and Nepali Times. His work is held in the collections of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (Japan), State Library of Queensland (Australia), Dhaka Nagar Jadughar (Dhaka City Museum), and Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh). In 2005 Shehab was named a Panos Media Fellow and he has taught at numerous institutions, including QCA; Sunshine Coast University; Pathshala South Asian Media Institute Dhaka, and the College of Journalism and Mass Communication Kathmandu.
