Fine Gelatin Silver Print

This in-depth and fun weekend dedicated to the fine art of black-and-white printing is for committed photographers looking to take their printing techniques to the next level. Through discussions centered on your work, this two day hands-on darkroom intensive is designed to strengthen your understanding of materials, process, and the medium.

With an enlarger for each participant, you will learn about different papers, film types and their characteristics, how paper and film can relate to different developers and developing technique, and how to make your prints archival. Through examination of the many combinations of equipment, paper, and developers, you will learn how to combine practical issues and innovative techniques to print any negative creatively, successfully, and with individual style. Kelton will also demonstrate split-filter printing, selective bleaching, and intensification to produce the final print.

One-weekend workshop

Saturday & Sunday, 9:00-5:00 pm

March 20 & 21

All materials will be supplied during the workshop

Photographic Vision I or portfolio review

$400 + lab fee of $50

• Limited to 8

• March 12

Chuck Kelton the crème de la crème of printers, is owner of Kelton Labs in NYC. For the last two decades Kelton has worked as a master printer for exhibitions and advertising campaigns for leading photographers worldwide. Kelton splits his times between both fine art and commercial printing, his client list includes the top advertising agencies and major magazines such Vogue, Vainity Fair, GQ, and Harper's Bazaar as well as some of the most renowned photogrpahers such as Lillian Bassman, Danny Lyon, Helen Levitt to name a few. When not in the darkroom, Kelton teaches in the graduate program at the International Center for Photography as well as workshops throughout the country. He is also a photographer with work in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.