Baltic Analog Lab invites you to a two day photography workshop with Canadian artist Ella Morton who will teach mordançage technique applied on photography – both black and white as well as colour.

This two-day workshop will introduce participants to the fundamentals of mordançage. Mordançage is an obscure darkroom technique developed in the 1970s by French photographer Jean-Pierre Sudre, which evolved from the 19th-century bleach etching process. On the first day, we will learn how to produce silver gelatin prints in the darkroom that are best suited to mordançage. We will discuss the chemistry components, the bleaching and developing steps, and the emulsion handling techniques to add veils and textures to each print using the mordançage chemistry. On the second day, we will learn an innovative technique to apply mordançage chemistry to colour negative film. We will explore Riga with a large-format camera, capturing images that we will hand-process and treat with mordançage. Participants will gain a thorough understanding of this haunting process and leave the workshop with the knowledge to create fully realised mordançage prints and negatives.

Programme

-Introduction to mordançage: history and contemporary practice

-Introduction to black and white printing techniques for mordançage and production time

-Hands-on mordançage experimentation: safety, step-by-step procedure and veiling

techniques

-Introduction to mordançage in colour

-Photographing with a 4x5 film camera in Riga

-Processing c41 colour negative film

-Applying mordançage to colour film: techniques and hands-on experimentation

Ella Morton is a visual artist and filmmaker living in Tkarón:to/Toronto. Her expedition-based practice has brought her to residencies and projects across Canada, Scandinavia, Greenland and Antarctica. She uses experimental analogue processes to capture the sublime and fragile qualities of remote landscapes. She earned a BFA from Parsons School of Design (New York) and an MFA from York University (Toronto). She has exhibited her work internationally, including shows at Lonsdale Gallery (Toronto), Foley Gallery (New York), 516 Arts (Albuquerque, NM), Contemporary Calgary (Calgary), Galérie AVE (Montréal), SPAO Gallery, (Ottawa), the Turchin Center for the Arts (Boone, NC), Photographic Center Northwest (Seattle) and Hanstholm Art Space (Denmark). Her films have screened internationally, including the Vancouver International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Montreal International Documentary Festival and the Alchemy Film & Media Arts Festival, among others. Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the National Film Board of Canada and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto.  

Limited amount of participants - 10 people

Register by sending us an email to: balticanaloglab@gmail.com

Participation fee: 60 EUR

Supported by Latvian Culture Capital Foundation