We invite you to a workshop on large-format photography in Wrzesnia, where Bogdan Konopka, Eryk Zjeżdżalka, Andrzej Jerzy Lech and other artists of the Wrzesnia Collection took photographs.
Organizer: Editorial Board of "Photography Quarterly"
Deadline: 27-29th October 2023
Instructors: Waldemar Sliwczynski, Rafal Swosinski, Piotr Nowak
What you will learn from scratch (you don't need to know anything):
- Operating and shooting with a 4×5 inch large format camera - loading film into cassettes, frame composition, tilting, shifting, light metering, exposure
- loading exposed film into the corrector, developing negatives, storing, archiving negatives
- negative-positive process - making a contact print from a 4×5 inch negative - exposing, developing, fixing, rinsing, drying prints, post-processing, signing, framing, preparing for sale
The organizers provide:
- All necessary equipment: cambo 4 x 5 cameras - pcs. 2 + darkroom equipment. You can use your equipment
- photographic materials: ilford 4×5 film, ilford paper and chemistry, each participant will bring home photographs taken by themselves from start to finish
- accommodation in the atmospheric Mansarda, i.e. in the place where Bogdan Konopka (2009) and Andrzej Jerzy Lech (2010) lived during the realization of the Wrzesińska Collection No. 1 and No. 2
- board - breakfast and dinner
- The program includes a visit to the permanent exhibition of the Września Collection at the Września USC, a bicycle tour of Września, presentations of works by workshop participants, presentations of photography books, a meeting with the Moment photography club of Piotr Nowak
Number of participants: 6-10 people (5 double rooms)
Price: PLN 1000 per person
Applications The biggest difference is that technology and the internet has speeded everything up tremendously in just a few years. We take the instant transmission of photos and text for granted. As a photojournalist for 60 years, I well recall a different time when I would send packages of undeveloped rolls of film with hand written captions to editors all across the world. DHL and FedEx were vital for my international work, even the regular mail system on occasion. Then digital cameras and the internet came along, changing everything, and a lot more time had to be spent at the computer. Newspapers were the first to take advantage of the technology as they require a quick turnaround for news stories and photo quality was less demanding. It took longer for color magazines to adapt, the sort I worked with, who had to wait until digital photography improved. Online media didn't exist at all until relatively recently but it certainly didn't kill print media, as some predicted. waldemar@kwartalnikfotografia.pl, there please direct any questions, and preferably include questions in the comments under this article. The order of submissions is decisive.
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Waldemar Sliwczynski
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We are still accepting applications only until the end of this week, that is, Sunday, October 8 at 11:59 pm.