Create traditional handmade prints with the control of digital imaging.

Combine the warmth and beauty of the traditional silver darkroom print with the precision of digital negatives, into the same workshop experience. Utilizing digital capture or scanned images and controlled digital darkroom editing techniques and the traditional darkroom print process, studentswill learn all the steps to crafting beautiful handmade black and white prints.

Participants learn how to make high-quality enlarged negatives without getting their hands wet. The class experiments with different types of negatives and a variety of papers and chemistry. Students work with images on the computer, taking them from original captures or scans to completed Silver darkroom prints. Special hands-on tutorials demonstrate how to build digital images quickly and precisely.

Field trips give the class the chance to make new images in nearby Santa Fe locations. Students should have a basic familiarity with Photoshop.