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Image Processing with Plants Workshop
September 20, 2025 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm EDT
Join us for a workshop focused on alternative ways to develop images. Participants will use plant-based materials to develop photograms with Le Ratoire, a French group of artists. This workshop will span a few hours and is co-sponsored by iEar Presents!
In this workshop, Le Ratoire artist collective will work with participants to learn how to make a black & white film/photo developer using just local plants, ashes, and water– no industrial products, nothing from the store! We will go over the techniques of photograms (also known as rayograms) and phytography, two ways of exposing and making images on photo paper without needing to use a camera. We will explain how to choose, harvest, and process the plants for the making of a developer, exploring the properties of the plants that can develop the silver halides in photo emulsion (the same process works for all photo sensitive materials; film and paper).
Participants will be able to go home with their images and are welcome to stay for a communal meal ahead of the film screening.
Le Ratoire 16mm Film Screening, 7pm
Le Ratoire, a name that in French hints at both the words “lab” and “failure,” is a group of artists coming together with the proposition of making a movie from start to finish almost as a single act, as a joint organism, often with any materials they have at their disposal, and in extremely little time. About their methodology for filmmaking the artists explain: “each film is defined by a particular set of parameters; both technical and, especially, situational.”
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