Advanced Platinum Printing
Instructor: Kerik Kouklis
2025 Date: March 5 - 8
Focus: Darkroom
Medium: Platinum/Palladium
This four-day workshop is designed for students who already have experience with platinum/palladium printing and making digital negatives. Kerik Kouklis brings his 30 years of printing and over 20 years of teaching to the full benefit of participants in this immersive workshop.
Overview
Shave years off the learning curve of advancing your practice of Platinum Printing with this exceptional workshop taught by a master with decades of experience.
SPRING 2025 - March 5 - 8
This class is intended for people who are comfortable with the platinum/palladium process as well as making digital negatives and are looking for ways to push the process in new directions. While we will make and use digital negatives during the workshop and review the calibration process, the entire process will not be covered in detail. This workshop is all about printing. We will experiment with a variety of papers including Japanese papers like Kozo and Gampi as well as vellums and other surprises. Bring images of any subject matter that you would like to experiment with. Kerik will also lead at least one field session to make new images. This workshop is fun and will inspire you to push your work in new directions.
Currently the QCDN software by Richard Boutwell and Epson printers is only available for the MAC Operating System.
Workshop Details
| Advanced Platinum Priting | |
|---|---|
| INSTRUCTOR | Kerik Kouklis |
| FOCUS | Darkroom |
| MEDIUM | Platinum/Palladium |
| LEVEL | Intermediate to Advanced |
| ATTENDEES | 6 |
| TUITION | $1225 |
| MATERIAL FEE | $250 |
Currently the QCDN software by Richard Boutwell and Epson printers is only available for the MAC Operating System.
About the Instructor
Kerik Kouklis is a fine art and documentary photographer who has been involved in creating hand-made photographs since age twelve when his father set up a darkroom in the family’s basement. Born and reared in California with a background in music and geology, Kerik combines a contemporary eye when utilizing 19th, 20th and 21st Century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. He has used these processes to create his work since 1990 and has been teaching workshops since 1997, both in his home studio and at various locations around the US, Canada and the UK.
Kerik was the recipient of the 2016 Yosemite Renaissance Artist in Residency. And in 2017 Kerik began working with color by combining inkjet pigments in his palladium printing. These prints are reminiscent of hand-colored photographs from the late 1800’s. Then in 2019 Kerik began to learned the very first photographic process called the daguerreotype. He is still honing his skills in this difficult but uniquely beautiful process. Also in 2019, Kerik became the President of the Board of Directors for the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California.
In recent years Kerik’s photographic travels have taken him to Iceland, Scotland, Norway, the Galapagos, Mongolia and Japan. He has adopted the use of a drone, where permitted, to make aerial photographs during these travels. Kerik has completed his first documentary short film “Mongolia in Winter'' and is now working on a documentary film about an Antarctic expedition that occurred in 1958.
Kerik’s work is currently represented in California by Oficino Uno in Carmel and the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite where he has been teaching hand-made photographic techniques since 2000. His prints are held in private and corporate collections in North America and Europe as well as the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Newcastle, Pennsylvania. In 2019 Kerik became the President of the Board of Directors for the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California.
Kerik’s website is www.Kerik.com
Workshop FAQ
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Clothing / Dressing for the Elements
Physical Limitations Statement
This workshop may involve some walking and hiking around uneven, hilly, and rocky locations that may present a challenge to some attendees. The gallery workshop team requests your individual judgment to abstain from workshop activities that may be beyond your capabilities.
Although the workshop instructors will try to accommodate all attendees, please be advised that the gallery relies on your abstinence should you feel that a site location may not be safe for you.
Cancellation Policy
The Ansel Adams Gallery Multiple Day Workshop Cancellation Policy: We rely on your confirmed attendance to make important arrangements for the workshop. If you need to cancel, please inform a gallery representative in writing no fewer than 60 days prior to the first day of your scheduled workshop for a partial refund of your tuition that reflects the 10% non-refundable administration charge. Refunds cannot be made for cancellations initiated within 60 days of the first day of the scheduled workshop, or for no-shows, for any reason.
If you are concerned with the possibility of cancellation, please consider purchasing travel insurance.
Workshop registration is NOT transferable.
In the extremely rare event that The Ansel Adams Gallery needs to cancel a workshop, the gallery will refund your full tuition. However, The Ansel Adams Gallery will not be responsible for non-refundable airline tickets, car rentals charges, lodging reservations, or any other expense outside of the workshop tuition.
Lodging reservations made through Yosemite Hospitality - Aramark are fully refundable 14 days in advance of the scheduled first day of check in.
It is recommended not to purchase airline tickets or make non-refundable deposits on lodging that cannot be canceled 14 days prior to the initiation of the workshop event.
The Ansel Adams Gallery highly recommends travel insurance to help with an unfortunate travel event.
