T51. Lumen Print’o’gramas with Gal Wachs

In this workshop, we’ll dive headfirst into the world of Lumen Print’o’grams, combining lumen prints, photograms, and other experiments that are hard to explain but easy to enjoy. The idea is to approach photography as a living process, where light, chemistry, time, and our hands hold as much power as the camera… or even more.

The session will be entirely hands-on: darkroom, photosensitive paper, mysterious liquids, and plenty of moments spent turning the lights off, turning them back on, or simply stepping outside to see what happens when the sun decides to join the picture. We’ll experiment with different exposures, timings, and different ways of manipulating the materials to observe how each modification transforms the result.

It’s not about getting it perfect, but about seeing what happens.

About letting the paper react, letting the chemicals do their thing, and letting the image emerge in ways that can’t always be predicted.

The workshop is designed as an open, intuition-filled space, where the process is just as important as the final image, and where making mistakes is often part of the method.

At the end, we’ll do a group review to see what has survived, what has mutated, and what has turned out completely different from what was expected… which is usually the most interesting part.

Outline

• Introduction to the lumen print’o’gram technique and its conceptual approach

• Experimental practice combining lumen prints, photograms, and mixed media

• Lab practice with control of materials and exposure times

• Practice with ambient light and results observation

• Collective review and final comments

Participants must bring (optionally):

• Their own negatives for the enlarger.

• Negative acetates, such as those used for cyanotypes, to print them on the sensitive paper, as in photograms.