Dunkelkammer-Workshop: Analoge Filmentwicklung

Analog work in the photo lab is a different form of image production and requires a decelerated approach to the image. Anyone working with film has to get involved with the material - with its sensitivity, its peculiarities, its unpredictability. Not everything can be determined, not everything can be controlled. A fingerprint on the negative, a water stain on the print, a slight overexposure. The material inscribes itself into the image. Uncontrollability is not a mistake, but part of the process.

Analog work takes time and patience. It forces you to slow down and thus forms a deliberate antithesis to fast-moving digital image production, in which shooting, correction and distribution happen in seconds.

In the workshop "Basics of film development - from latent image to contact print" we will learn the basics of analog black and white development together. We will develop the films we have brought with us and make visible what is inscribed on the film but not yet visible - the latent image. After developing the negatives, we make contact prints. We will experiment with exposure times and different light hardnesses.

The workshop is aimed at participants aged 18 and over who have little or no experience with the analog laboratory. No special previous knowledge is necessary.

To participate, please bring a black-and-white negative film that has been photographed but not yet developed (for example, the film from a black-and-white disposable camera).