Blue Memories: Your Photo as a Cyanotype
Turn your own photo into a deep blue cyanotype print, with time to experiment with plants and shapes along the way.
Important before the workshop
About a week before the workshop, you'll get an email with all the details for submitting your photos. You can send up to ten of your own images, in JPEG or PNG format, no later than two days before the session. From these, five personal A4 negatives will be prepared for you.
Your own photos aren't required: the workshop also offers a selection of ready-made negative motifs, such as water drops, waves, moon shapes, animals and other graphic forms.
All negatives can be exposed multiple times, so you can reinterpret the same motif again and again, on different papers, with different crops, or with creative additions.
Note: We'll pass your email on to Nicole. She'll then reach out to let you know which photos she needs from you for the workshop.
Workshop Flow
During the session, you'll go through the full cyanotype process:
- Introduction to cyanotype: origins, how it works, materials and safety
- Live demonstration: coating, drying, exposing and washing
- A first piece using plants, shapes and transparent materials
- Exposing at the UV station and washing together
- Preparing and exposing your personal photo motifs
- Drying and final finishing touches
- Viewing everyone's results together at the end
Duration: 3 hours Maximum 10 participants per workshop
What's included
- All materials (paper, chemistry, film)
- 5 personal A4 negatives, printed from the photos you send in advance
- A selection of ready-made negative motifs to use freely
- Guidance through the whole process
- Filter coffee, tea and water included
- A small selection of sweets
- Your finished cyanotype prints to take home
Who it's for
Everyone. No experience needed. Come alone or with friends.
What to bring
Just yourself. Just remember to send us your photos in time, everything else is there for you.
