This intensive five-day workshop is a complete immersion in nineteenth-century collodion photography. Beginning with ambrotypes and tintypes, you’ll learn the essential principles of the wet plate collodion process, then progress to wet collodion negatives, dry plates, and traditional salt printing.
Along the way you’ll work through every stage of the historical photographic workflow — from preparing glass and metal plates to producing finished salt prints — using dependable, repeatable techniques you can apply on your own after the course. Studio sessions are paired with outdoor field work in the medieval town of Castelbuono, giving you experience in both controlled portraiture and landscape photography with historical materials.
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By the end of the workshop you will have completed the entire nineteenth-century collodion workflow — from creating ambrotypes and tintypes to producing wet and dry collodion negatives and printing your own images on salt paper. You’ll leave with a collection of handmade photographs, along with the practical knowledge and confidence to keep exploring historical photographic processes on your own.
No prior experience is required.
The workshop is limited to six participants.
$1,000 — all materials included.
A $500 deposit reserves your seat; the balance is due one month before the workshop.
Deposits are 50% refundable up to five weeks before the workshop. After that, deposits are non-refundable.
