Salt Printing (Alternative Printing Processes Series)
Workshop at Photofusion with Paul Ellis

Saturday 18th April, 2015
10.30am - 5.30pm (45-minute lunch)
Photofusion
17a Electric Lane
London SW9 8LA (MAP)
Nearest tube: Brixton

Cost: £115 including all materials (LIP Members only)
8 places

The Salt Print is a Fox Talbot invention and is one of the very earliest methods of a making a photograph.

On this workshop participants will learn, step by step, the process of making a Salt Print. This initially means making a suitable negative (we use digital transfer film from digital files to produce an A4 or A3 negative), coating watercolour paper with a salt solution and drying it, then coating with a silver solution (Silver Nitrate) and drying it, then contacting the negative to the paper, then exposing the paper to UV light, then washing the print and finally drying the print.

All paper and chemicals are supplied. Participants will need to bring a selection of images on a memory stick from which we make the digital negatives.

This workshop has been planned to coincide with the Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860 at Tate Britain.

Directions & orientation: Photofusion is a 2-minute walk from Brixton tube station (last stop on the Victoria line). Exit left, only one exit and take first left at Iceland into the market Electric Avenue. Then take first right into Electric Lane. Look up and halfway down on your left and you'll see a large vertical Photofusion sign, beneath the sign is a clear glass door and an entry buzzer. We are also 2 minutes from Brixton rail station (one stop from Victoria) which is at the opposite end of Electric Avenue. If driving the only easy place to park is the NCP car park in Canterbury Crescent, a 3-minute walk away.

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