This advanced workshop is designed for visual artists who have previously attended one of Christopher’s alternative processes workshops or whose portfolios demonstrate a comfortable working knowledge of the subject. The workshop offers photographers a week of processes, working time, a dedicated facility, and materials with which to refine their skills and focus their energies on a specific project or technique.

Christopher’s workshops provide a dynamic, hands-on, group experience within an energetic and supportive environment. Participants receive continual assistance and immediate feedback on works in progress, along with an open exchange of working concepts, ideas, history, and techniques. Individual process demonstrations are provided on request.

Using Christopher’s The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Second Edition as the workshop text, we are equipped to handle a wide range of processes, including: wet plate collodion, platinum, palladium, salted paper, matte albumen, Van Dyke, kallitype, argyrotype, cyanotype, gum bichromate and gum combination techniques, Ziatype, carbon, and other processes and techniques that suit your needs. We also have a digital negative production setup in the facility. While most of our printing is done in the sun, UV exposure units are available for printing at night or on rainy days.

Come fuel the fires and hone the skills of your creative expression by working in-depth with the alternative processes of your choosing.