Large Format Photography
$595
This hands-on workshop will guide you through the fundamentals of large format cameras, from composition to technical mastery.
Bookings close on March 8, 2025
This is a hands-on workshop on early analogue photography that introduces attendees to the use of the large format camera. You will learn how to expose and operate large format and ultra-large format cameras and how to use Black & White darkroom photographic paper as negative. This process involves learning how to expose and develop the paper negatives which can then be used to create an image through darkroom contact prints and/or other alternatives prints.
You will enjoy the physicality and tactility of traditional photographic technique.
The workshop runs from 10 am to 5 pm and is limited to 4 participants.
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.
- All necessary photographic materials are supplied.
- Large Format Camera (if you have one)
- Notebook
- Sunscreen
Queensland Centre for Photography,
6, Maud Street, Newstead, Q 4006
- Street parking
- Wheelchair access upon request
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.
