Cyanotype Workshop. Cyanotype is a process, discovered in 1842, is a simple and nearly fail-safe technique that was used to create some of the earliest photographic prints. Cyanotype is an immersive hands-on workshop that introduces the participants to the basics of the Cyanotype Prints. You will learn how to mix light-sensitive chemistry, how to sensitize, expose, and process your own images, creating beautiful cyanotype prints and also learn about the brief history of the process. Cyanotype yields beautiful results and is a fairly simple and fun process to do that can encourage almost anyone to become an artist, even if for a day!

The Cyanotype Workshop aims at taking people back in time, to the era when the sheer joy of photography meant not just taking pictures with the camera, but also creating the prints in a physical form – something that was lost with the digital era. Watching a print appear in front of your eyes is like magic! And through this process, an individual plays the role of not just a photographer, but also an alchemist and an artist . While this workshop enables participants to get hands on experience with a historical printing process, it also focuses on two very essential elements of photography -'Creation' and ‘Patience’. In contrast to the fast paced world we live in that thrives on instant gratification, these processes teach people how to ‘slow down’ and to look at things in a different light with a bend of creativity!

15th March, 10:30 am to 1:30 pm At Museo Camera Centre for the Photographic Arts

A photo guide and a botanist will accompany the group.

Photographer- Aditya Arya, Founder Director, Museo Camera.

Botanist, Environmentalist -Vijay Dhasmana is an ecological gardener who specializes in ‘rewilding' projects that bring back natural flora and fauna into landscapes that have become severely degraded. He has been curating the 380-acre Aravalli Biodiversity Park in Gurgaon and has created an extensive nursery of plants native to the rocky Aravallis. He is also engaged in a few other rewilding projects in Rajasthan and Delhi/NCR.

The cost includes all the chemicals, development of the negatives from digital images, paper, tools, use of dark room plus an instructor hence with it is not possible to reduce the cost further. The participants will need to provide 4 high quality images beforehand(at least 5 days in advance) which will be converted into negatives. These negatives will be then used for creating your own prints.

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