Members Masterclass: Botanically-toned Photography (Morning)

In this hands-on mas­ter­class with Melanie King, you’ll learn how to mix, coat, expose, and devel­op your own cyan­o­type prints, before chop­ping, brew­ing, and boil­ing a palette of nat­ur­al toners made from every­day botan­ic­als to alter your images. From sea­weed to garden herbs, each toner reveals subtle col­our shifts and sur­pris­ing hues of gold and reds. This is a mas­ter­class of play­ful exper­i­ment­a­tion and nat­ur­al expres­sion. You’ll leave with a col­lec­tion of uniquely toned pho­to­grams and a deep­er under­stand­ing for the hid­den ton­ing poten­tial in plants.

Par­ti­cipants will be invited to bring flat objects, such as rib­bons or pressed plants, to use dur­ing the work­shop. This is not com­puls­ory — there will be plenty of mater­i­als ready and avail­able to choose from.

Dr Melanie King is an artist, cur­at­or, and research­er inter­ested in the intim­ate rela­tion­ship between the nat­ur­al world, pho­to­graphy, and mater­i­al­ity. She lec­tures in Pho­to­graphy at Can­ter­bury Christ Church Uni­ver­sity, and is the founder of the Lon­don Altern­at­ive Pho­to­graphy Col­lect­ive, as well as co-dir­ect­or of super/​collider and Lumen Studios.

Import­ant inform­a­tion about our tick­et bal­lot for this event:

We are using a bal­lot sys­tem to book tick­ets for these masterclasses. The bal­lot is open for a lim­ited time: from 10:00 Fri­day 19^th Septem­ber until 23:59 on Thursday 25^th September. Enter­ing the bal­lot means that you’ve entered into a draw for the oppor­tun­ity to book a tick­et. From Fri­day 26^th onwards, suc­cess­ful entrants will be auto­mat­ic­ally booked onto the event and sent a con­firm­a­tion email. If you can no longer attend please can­cel your place so someone else can be booked on. Unfor­tu­nately, the bal­lot may be over­sub­scribed, so enter­ing it doesn’t guar­an­tee that you’ll be offered tickets. Once tick­ets are fully booked, we will noti­fy every­one and offer the oppor­tun­ity to join the wait­ing list.

Images cour­tesy of Melanie King.

Par­ti­cipants will be invited to bring flat objects, such as rib­bons or pressed plants, to use dur­ing the work­shop. This is not com­puls­ory — there will be plenty of mater­i­als ready and avail­able to choose from.

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