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Carbon Transfer Printing

Photography Education

Instructor: Vaughn Hutchins
2024 Dates: April 17-20
Focus: Darkroom
Medium: Large Format Film

Designed for the curious, this workshop takes you on a journey into the lost art of what was once considered the premier photographic printing process. Rediscover the art of Carbon Printing with Vaughn Hutchins, master of the process, with Nature's grandest classroom as your muse. Learn to craft striking images with outstanding visual quality and proven archival permanence. This highly-regarded and aesthetically unique printing method is now practiced by a few dedicated artists. Now you can be one of them.

$1,150.00 USD
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Overview

Discover the intricately rewarding practice of Carbon Transfer Printing, a complex method of producing an image with layers of carbon to create exquisite detail-rich images. Dive into what was once considered a lost art, and explore the depth of craftsmanship it takes to achieve carbon printing's enchanting effects. 

Renown for their stability and long tonal range, carbon prints are considered by some to be the ultimate monochromatic photographic art form. For those who are looking to create an objet d’art as much as achieving their creative vision, this workshop is for you.

In this four-day workshop, join Vaughn Hutchins, one of the foremost carbon printing masters today, to learn to create and sensitize your materials, along with exposing and developing your prints. Vaughn can offer hands on assistance with his 8x10 View Camera allowing you to create a large format negative. This workshop will prepare you to continue the process independently, ready to develop your work at home with materials readily available.

 

SPRING 2024 - April 17-20
Scheduled for late April, this workshop will occur during the peak of Spring in Yosemite High Country. It is a beautiful and inspiring time to be an artist in Yosemite National Park.

Workshop Details

Carbon Transfer Printing
INSTRUCTOR Vaughn Hutchins
FOCUS Darkroom
MEDIUM Large Format Film
LEVEL Beginner to Intermediate
ATTENDEES 6
TUITION $1000
MATERIAL FEE $150

 

Vaughn can offer hands on assistance with his 8x10 View Camera allowing you to create a large format negative. Attendees are also welcome to bring there personal large format cameras.

About the Instructor

Vaughn HutchinsVaughn Hutchins A photographer since 1976, Vaughn's entire professional career has been based in the out of doors, from his years working for the US Forest Service in various capacities, including steelhead counter, mule packer, trail builder, fire fighter, campground maintenance, wilderness ranger, and fire lookout, to his current vocation as a full-time landscape photographer and teacher.

While enrolled at Humboldt State University (HSU) earning a BS Degree in Natural Resources Management, Vaughn studied with the three Tom's of the photographic department: Tom Knight, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Jim Toms. He transitioned to a full-time career in photography in 1991 when he became the darkroom technician for the HSU Art Department, operating the teaching darkroom for the Art Department.

A frequent instructor and assistant at workshops throughout the American West, he also teaches photography to high school students in the summer through the HSU Art Academy. He has been a favorite instructor at the Ansel Adams Gallery, where his original limited edition fine prints are represented.

Though he is accomplished with color, silver and platinum-based printing processes, it is the carbon printing process, with its long-lived imagery and its distinctive, raised relief that is especially suited to express the wide array of textures and the delicate light that filters through fog and dense forests of coastal redwoods near his home in Northern California.



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Find answers to your questions about our Photography Workshops in our FAQ. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you need additional help. You can reach us by email at photoed@anseladams.com or by phone (650) 692-3495. 

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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. 

This pre-workshop information may be emailed to the education coordinator at photoed@anseladams.com.

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