a few photos documenting learning how to use plant-based developer in 35mm film developing and printing in the darkroom. thank you to Beatrice Thornton for leading the workshops and sharing your knowledge and craft, and to the East Bay Photo Collective for continuing to arrange these awesome workshops, connect photographers and creatives around the Bay Area, and provide darkroom use and space for testing. these two workshops were so fun and inspiring and I’m so happy to be learning.
Check out Beatrice’s website and incredible work: https://www.beatricevictoria.com/
For more on the East Bay Photo Collective: https://www.ebpco.org/
after adding vitamin C powder and laundry soda to the brew and dissolving well, the mixture acts as a film developer. we developed our negatives using these mixes in the same process we would use a regular developer (followed by stop/fix/rinse), and the negatives turned out pretty well!
in another workshop, we printed in the darkroom using similar plant-based developer brews and our previously-developed negatives. the results were really fun and a very “full-circle” moment to finish prints that are connected to the landscape not only based on what’s captured in the images, but what was used in the chemistry to develop them. very cool and inspiring experience and a great way of being more connected through every step of the process by using materials around us (rather than traditional darkroom chemical developer) as part of the final product.
Thank you Bea and EBPCO
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official EBPCO darkroom member cutie polaroids
hannah hansen 