The Bristol Folk House has a purpose built wet-based photography facility which offers a programme of courses and workshops throughout the year. Run by our team of professional photographers, we have seven Black and White enlargers 35mm up to large format, film developing facilities, print finishing darkroom and more. For more information about the Darkroom and membership please click here.
Cyanotype is an historical photographic printing technique which creates gorgeous Prussian Blue prints simply using sunlight, without the need for complex equipment or a darkroom. In this fun workshop ...
Drawing inspiration from the work of Bill Brandt, Francesca Woodman and Man Ray, participants will create their own hand printed surrealist photographs. Participants will use negatives of the body tog ...
Have you got some old photos lying around or left in a draw that you are not sure what to do with? Or do you have some new photographs which haven't really come out the way you expected? Then give the ...
Suitable for those who have completed the Introduction To Black & White course, or the Basic Developing and Printing courses, or who have some previous experience of using a darkroom. Over the 5 sessi ...
Over the duration of this course you will learn the historic processes of gum bichromate & cyanotype printing. Gum Bichromate uses Gum Arabic, watercolour and a sensitizer and is an extremely painter ...
Learn how use an enlarger and photographic chemicals to traditionally print your own negatives. Please bring your own black and white negatives to print from. No previous darkroom experience necessary ...
Learn how use an enlarger and photographic chemicals to traditionally print your own negatives. Please bring your own black and white negatives to print from. No previous darkroom experience necessary ...
In this one day class develop a black-and-white film and then make a contact sheet. Shoot a black-and-white film in advance (Ilford HP5 Plus) and bring this along to the session. ...
In this one day class learn how to make a basic black-and-white print, then how to enhance the print using various printing techniques. Bring your own black-and-white negatives (35mm or 120). ...
This practical course will introduce the beginner to film photography, covering film types, film speed, camera controls and black-and-white film processing, making of contact sheets and printing from ...
The Bristol Folk House has a brand new, purpose built wet-based photography facility.
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