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Developing Black and White Film with Chemistry made from Mill Valley Plants with Beatrice Thornton

September 14 @ 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
$70.00 – $95.00

Learn to develop your black and white film in plant-based film developer chemistry with a selection of teas made from foraged plants currently in abundance in Mill Valley, part of the Northern California Coast bioregion!

Workshop participants will have the option to bring 1 or 2 (preferred) rolls of film (35mm preferred, 120 ok, too!) that they have already exposed/ shot in advance. Please try to shoot Kentmere 400 or 100, Ilford HP5 400, or Delta 100.

If you are unable to purchase and shoot film in advance of the workshop, Beatrice will have film and cameras available for folks to use during the workshop. Participants will have time to explore the lovely grounds of OHCA during the first part of the workshop, where we will learn about some of the plants we’ll be using to develop our film.

Participants can pay a $30 materials fee for two rolls of film and use of camera on the day of the workshop, if planning to shoot film during the workshop.

We will all develop our film together starting with one roll and then improvise for the second roll based on results of the first.

The workshop format is likewise a meditative practice in non-attachment, so please keep in mind that results will vary. Participants will come away with an understanding of basic sustainable and low-toxicity darkroom practices that they can continue at home.

All other materials will be provided. No experience developing or loading film tanks is necessary. Beatrice is willing to demonstrate and assist with loading.

Pricing:

$95 if shooting film in advance to bring to the workshop —see below description for preferred film stock details and below links to physical and online stores in the bay area to purchase film.
$30 materials fee if shooting film on day of workshop—35mm cameras and film available during workshop for use.
*All developing equipment and chemistry otherwise provided.

12 participants max

Bay Area Photo Shops and Labs that sell film:

About the Facilitator

Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based land artist, archivist, historian, and darkroom instructor working in black-and-white film photography through sustainable, alternative darkroom processes equally in dialogue with place and medium. Since moving back to the Bay Area from New York in 2018, she has been exploring ways that reconnect her to her home state — along the way learning, questioning, and considering its complex histories with a sense of wonder spanning environmentalism, art and design history, archival methods, and darkroom-based graphic design.

She develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using ingredients including foraged plants, collected rainwater, and low-toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemistry.

Her photographic style often features landscapes and architecture through in-camera double exposures and compositions that connect multiple images, or which use the same negative multiple times and at various scales and orientations. She pairs developers with plants featured in or that grow within the environments pictured. She sees developing with plants as a circular process where the art she produces is as much about process as it is the final objects.

BeatriceVictoria.com
@Beathornton – Instagram

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Details

  • Date: September 14
  • Time:
    1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Cost: $70.00 – $95.00

Venue

Organizer

  • OHCA Staff
  • Phone (415) 388-4331
  • Email office@ohanloncenter.org

Other

Facilitator
Beatrice Thornton
Regular Price
95
Materials Fee
30