Salt Prints
$395
This workshop introduces you to the first successful photographic paper process presented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839.
It covers this historic ‘printing-out’ process from start to finish and you will learn to:
- prepare light sensitive paper by applying sodium chloride (common table salt) and silver nitrate to a sheet of paper;
- expose this self-made photographic paper to UV light to create an image;
- wash and fix the exposed paper to arrive at the final permanent print.
Salt prints have a unique matt appearance that resembles pastel drawings and their tones range from warm reds to cold blacks.
Salt prints constitute the earliest photographic process for making positive prints which William Henry Fox Talbot first presented in 1839. Alongside the daguerreotype, the salt print dominated photography until the late 1850s.
Photographers such as Hippolyte Bayard and Gustave Le Grey in France and David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson created prints of exceptional beauty using this process.
Today salt prints offer a distinct alternative process that can be used to create simple photograms or sophisticated prints from digitally made negatives.
The workshop runs from 10 am to 4 pm and is limited to 4 participants.
It includes morning tea and a light lunch. Please bring your own lunch if you have specific dietary requirements, a fridge and microwave are available.
A full refund will be given if the workshop is cancelled due to a lack of registrations, Covid-19 restrictions, or other unforeseen circumstances caused by the Centre.
Street parking. Wheelchair access.
- a laptop and digital images you would like to print
- an apron or similar or wear old clothes.
Queensland Centre for Photography,
6, Maud Street, Newstead, Q 4006
- Street parking
- Wheelchair access
The Tutor:
Joachim Froese is an art photographer and educator who holds a PhD/Art from RMIT in Melbourne.
Joachim works across a range of platforms from digital capture to historical printing processes. His photographs are renowned for their technical brilliance and their conceptual depth. He has shown his work for almost 30 years in major solo, group and travelling exhibitions across Australia, Europe, Asia, and North America and his images have featured in many national and international art publications. A number of his works are held in public collections such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, and the Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA).
Joachim is a highly experienced educator who has held regular teaching appointments and guest lectures on photography at universities in Australia and Germany since 2001. He teaches from a practitioner’s point of view and enjoys sharing his unique knowledge across a broad spectrum of photographic processes.
