Tintype
WET PLATE COLLODION WORKSHOP
AUGUST 23-25th, 2024
Dates: Friday, Saturday, Sunday, August 23, 24 and 25, 2024
Location: Picto New York, Brooklyn, New York
Cost: $900
Immerse yourself in one of the most dynamic, diverse, and creative cities in the world! Join us for a two-and-a-half-day tintype photography workshop, brought to you by Picto New York, and taught by Rashod Taylor in the vibrant heart of Brooklyn, New York.
About the workshop
Come on a unique journey in New York with an award-winning photographer and teacher who specializes in the wet plate collodion process. Brought to you by Picto, this inaugural tintype workshop will be held in and around Picto’s New York headquarters located in Brooklyn.
This class will teach students how to create tintypes (positives on tin), ambrotypes (positives on glass), and glass negatives using chemistry and a darkroom. Each student will work one-on-one with the teacher and images will be made using large format cameras. There is no prior photography experience required – all are welcome, beginners to advanced!
All materials and cameras will be provided, but if you would like to bring your own 4”x5” camera or any other materials to work with, you are welcome to do so.
This workshop is limited to 20 students.
About your teacher
Rashod Taylor (b.1985) attended Murray State University and earned a bachelor’s degree in art with a specialization in Fine Art Photography in 2007. Taylor favors analog photography: silver prints and wet plate collodion process among them. Taylor’s work uses portraiture to address themes of family, race, culture, and legacy. The artist’s photographs are a window into the Black American experience. Taylor’s most well-recognized work is an ongoing project Little Black Boy. The series earned him an Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture in 2021. His work has exhibited nationally and internationally and is actively collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (two works now on view in group show, Love Languages, through Sept. 2025) Taylor has taught numerous workshops at Anderson Ranch Art Center. He has been invited to present lectures at Stanford University, George Washington University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Maine Media Workshop + College, Los Angeles Center of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among other venues. The artist is represented by jdc Fine Art and Obscura Gallery and has been included in group and solo shows, respectively. Editorial clients include National Geographic, Essence Magazine, ProPublica, among others. His work has also been featured in CNN, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Forbes, Hulu, Buzzfeed News, Feature Shoot and Lenscratch. Rashod Taylor lives in Springfield MO, with his wife and son.
SCHEDULE
August 23
5pm - 8pm
On Friday evening, Picto will be hosting a lively mixer where students have the opportunity to meet Picto’s talented staff and their classmates. This event will provide a relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere, perfect for building connections within the photography community, a great way to kick off the weekend and get to know everyone in a friendly and informal setting.
August 24
10am - 6pm
The workshop will begin with an orientation of the history and contemporary uses of the wet plate process, followed by a break for lunch, followed by an orientation to the process itself. Each student will make at least one (but usually more) tintype plate by the end of the day.
August 25
10am - 6pm
A review of the photographic plates from day 1, followed by an introduction to using glass – students will be welcome to make tintypes or glass plates for the entirety of the day. Depending on weather, there is a possibility of shooting on the roof or in the garden in the afternoon!