old technique = new style with jill enfield

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Renew your style in photography by going back to the beginning. Learning a different photographic process, will expand your vision, and make you a more creative photographer.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This is a workshop designed for photographers who have never worked with the Wet Collodion process or for people that have and want more formal training in it. We will in addition to learning the technique cover the creative process and how you can use your new skill set to distinguish yourself as a photographer.

Creating negatives/ positives on glass/tinnplates requires you to carefully compose each image, which will inevitably affect the way you photograph. We will use antique cameras, such as Brownie Cameras, or large format cameras, (4 x 5 to 5 x 7) and instead of film we will use glass, or aluminum to create negatives or positives. NORDphotography will have some Brownie Cameras to lend participants, but we suggest bringing your own, if possible. A good resource for these cameras is e-bay. A good camera for the workshop is the Vintage Kodak Brownie No.2 A Box Camera.

Our teacher is Jill Enfield, one of Americas most experienced and respected artists in the field of alternative processes. We will learn how to make ambrotypes and tintypes using the 1860's wet collodion technique. The process involves the hand pouring of chemicals onto glass to produce positives or negatives or aluminum for tintypes (positives) while the plates are still wet. The workshop will cover the basics from cutting the glass/aluminum, handling the camera, getting the right exposure for the image, developing, and of course learning about the chemicals and their effect, as well as how to mix and handle the chemicals safely.

The wet plate collodion process has undergone a revival over the past few decades, and artists like Sally Mann and Jill Enfield are largely to thank for bringing this amazing process back to life.

The collodion process, which is said to have been invented in 1850 by Frederick Scott Archer, was the first widely used photographic process that produced a negative image on a transparent photographic medium. Other methods of the time, such as the Daguerreotype, produced a one-of-a-kind positive image, which could not be replicated easily. With the collodion process, however, the photographer could make an unlimited number of prints from a single negative.

You can read more about The Collodion Process on Wikipedia

JILL ENFIELD:
Jill Enfield is one of America's most experienced and respected handcoloring artists. She has taught handcoloring and non-silver techniques at Parsons School of Design, The New School, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York University, Long Island University and the International Center of Photography in New York, as well as in workshops throughout the United States and Europe. Jill’s more recent emphasis has been on the wet plate collodion process, originally used by Matthew Brady during the Civil War.

Her work is in the collections of RJ Reynolds Company, Southeast Banking Corporation, The Amon Carter Museum, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Hotel Parisi in LaJolla, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin in Colombia, where her work was shown during a three month exhibition that traveled throughout the country.

Jill's personal work has appeared in such publications as National Geographic, Camera Arts, PDN, Hasselblad's FORUM Magazine, Nikon World, Camera & Darkroom Techniques, Archive Books, Step by Step, Shutterbug, Popular Photography, Digital Camera and ZOOM.

She has been featured in over thirty shows during her career, including an exhibition at The Vivienne Esders Gallery in Paris.

Nikon has honored Jill by featuring her on their website as a "Legend Behind The Lens" photographer as well as in their Full-Line product guide and an upcoming issue of Nikon World.

LOCATION/ ACCOMMODATION:
The workshop will take place in a small community in the middle of Norway called Straumen. This is the area where NORDphotography is building their workshop center, which will open mid July. We will use the darkroom of Sund Folkehøyskole, and stay at Strømnes, a typical Nordic Farmhouse, where we have rented the main house for our students. In the off chance that SAGA is ready to be used in late May, we will have the students experience the center. Students will have to share rooms, each room has single beds.

Price accommodation: kr. 675,- NOK pr person pr night in shared room (including breakfast). We have rented the farm from the 22nd of May until the 27TH, and suggest that students make plans to arrive on the 22nd, as the workshop starts on the morning of the 23rd.

HOW TO GET HERE:
Distance: Straumen is about a 2,5 hour travel distance from Oslo (plain 1 hour, train 1 hour and 15 minutes, car ride 15 minutes), about 3 hours from Stockholm or Copenhagen, and about 12 hours from New York City.

By Plain: The closest airport to Straumen is Trondheim International Airport. From the airport, take the local train, which stops at the airport terminal every second hour (from 7:45 AM – 9:45 PM), towards Steinkjer. You will disembark the train at Røra Station (about a 1 hour and 15 minutes ride from the airport) and NORDphotography’s van will be there to greet you and take you to our destination.

By train: Your disembark the train at Røra Station and NORDphotography’s van will be there to greet you and take you to our destination. Travel distance with train from: Oslo 9 hours. Trondheim 2 hours. Bodø 9,5 hours. Storlien (Sweden) 3,5 hours.

By car: Follow E6 to Røra, then RV 755 to Straumen.

WORKSHOP TUITION:
Workshop tuition: Kr. 7.500,- NOK
Material fee: kr. 1.200,- NOK
In total: kr. 8.700,- NOK

NB: Accommodation is in addition to the workshop tuition.

To secure a seat on this workshop we ask for a deposit of kr. 2.700,- NOK to be paid to NORDphotography. Shortly after registrating for the workshop you will recive an invoice via e-mail for the deposit to be paid within two weeks, and an invoice for the rest of the tuition + accomodation, to be paid no later then 1 month before the workshop starts.

REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP ON NORDphotography's webpage or e-mail us at post@nordphotography.com

CANCELATION RULES
For the workshop to run we need a minimum of 7 participants. If we for some reason are not able to reach our minimum number, the workshop will be canceled and you will receive a full refund.

NORDphotography is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline/ train tickets in the event of a program cancellation. Please check on your workshop status before making travel arrangements.

There wil be a maximum of 10 students on this workshop.

Withdrawal and Refund PolicyEnrollment is limited in our workshops, so once you have been accepted your participation is important to us - we are counting on you to attend.

We do however understand that sometimes plans fall trough and offer the following cancellation policies:

For our NORWAY workshops:
Withdraw more than 60 days before the start of class and we will refund all monies paid, minus a administration fee of NOK 1.500,-
Withdraw between 60 days or less before the start of class and we will charge you with the full workshop tuition.

TRAVEL INFORMATION
We ask that you do not book your ticket until we have confirmed that the minimum number of participants have signed up. If you need a hotel, we suggest that you reserve a room as soon as possible, but make sure that the hotel has a full refund cancelation policy. Travel expenses are each participant's own responsibility. We suggest that you always have traveler's insurance.