*NEW* Advanced Photograms: Light, Form, and Experimentation
Taste of Art-Photography | Available
Push beyond the fundamentals of cameraless photography in Advanced Photograms, an intensive one-day course focused on experimentation and personal expression. This class explores how light, material, and time can create complex, layered compositions. Through guided demonstrations and hands-on practice, students will investigate transparency, motion, and multi-exposure techniques while refining their ability to create intentional, visually compelling photograms. The course emphasizes both technical precision and creative risk-taking, culminating in a small, cohesive body of work.
Who This Class Is For
- Darkroom experience is helpful but not necessary
- Film Negatives can be especially useful for this class. Exposed or unexposed.
- Artists interested in abstraction and experimental processes
- Students ready to push beyond traditional photographic methods
What to Bring
- Objects of varying transparency (glass, fabrics, organic materials)
- Sketchbook or notebook for planning
- Optional: unique materials for experimentation
(All darkroom materials and chemistry provided unless otherwise noted.)
Outcome
Students will leave with a refined series of advanced photograms, a stronger command of light-based image making, and new strategies for pushing cameraless photography into more expressive and conceptual territory.
Chloe Plumb
Chloe Plumb has been experimenting in alternative photo art ever since she felt the need in 2016 to expand the types of fun she was having in the color and black-and-white darkrooms. As an ongoing Teacher's Assistant for the various film and alternative photography classes in New York's International Center of Photography, she both printed her own film photography and taught others to print. During her university years at UNC-Chapel Hill, she frequently taught groups of students how to use the darkroom, first serving 2 years as Darkroom Manager of the school's Photography Club, then as President. Currently she is focused on scanning and organizing her thousands of photograms so that others can finally see what she has gained so much fulfillment over the years in making!