The Sustainable Darkroom – workshops

The Sustainable Darkroom will explore low-toxicity chemistries in film and photography practice in these two workshops organised by the Environmental Humanities Research Group.

The Sustainable Darkroom is an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme, equipping cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop an environmentally friendly photographic darkroom practice.

Taking its form in publications, residencies, talks, and workshops, it intends to lead a movement in challenging the environmental impact and sustainability of darkroom practices.

Two workshops will be led by Edd Carr. Edd is a Leeds based writer, filmmaker and Sustainable Darkroom project leader. Old clothes / aprons are advised but not essential.

The workshops will take place in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies darkroom.

Programme

10:00 - 13:00: Cyanotypes on 16mm 

Creating unique collaborative moving image works by repurposing blank 16mm film and coating it with cyanotype chemistry. During the workshop we will use a mixture of collaged negatives, hand-drawn negatives and objects to produce the film, to be screened through a 16mm projector.

14:30 - 17-30: MUDDY Developer

Learn to develop with MUDDY - a semi-solid, compostable developer made from just two household ingredients. With a mud-like texture, you can create unique textures on your prints and negatives.

Book your place

If you would like to take part in either workshop, please email Tom Vickery at fhtiv@leeds.ac.uk.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. We welcome participation in both workshops.

Capacity is 10 places per workshop.

More information

The Environmental Humanities Research Group (Visual Cultures of Ecology) brings together researchers who are working in response to environmental crisis, alert to calls for epistemic change to recentre ‘who and what the humanities has chosen to overlook in its stories of the earth’ (Yusoff).

It aims to foster dialogue and community at the University of Leeds and beyond, around new work in interdisciplinary fields including extinction studies, eco-marxism, eco-poetics, eco-theology, new materialism, plant humanities and animal studies.

Hosted by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, and through dialogue and events, the group foregrounds art and visual culture as eco-critical resources and as stimuli for multi-disciplinary conversations.

Image

Photo courtesy of the Sustainable Darkroom.