In this class, you will learn the platinum/palladium process and digital techniques to colorize platinum/palladium prints. You will also learn to make digital negatives for contact printing using QuadTone RIP.

This is a fun and exciting way to combine early printing techniques with modern technology to make prints that have a unique look, somewhat reminiscent of hand-colored black and white photographs from the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. Whether you have experience in the darkroom or not, if you’re interested in making color platinum/palladium prints, this workshop is for you.

A background in Photoshop and previous experience with alternative processes will help but are NOT required.

Kerik Kouklis is a fine art photographer who specializes in the handmade photograph combining a contemporary eye with 19th-century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. He has been working with these processes since 1990, and is known as a skilled practitioner and teacher of the platinum/palladium process and the combined gum-platinum process. In 2004 Kerik began working with the wet plate collodion process, which brought a new series of portraits and still-life images into his portfolio.