Registration is now open!

Events included* in your registration fee:
~Symposium Opening Reception & Portfolio Review/Work Sharing Session
~Opening Reception Lecture with France Scully Osterman
~Lectures and Round-Table Discussions with 8 Featured Artists
~f295 Exhibition Opening Reception
~Alternative Photography ‘Walk-About’ (registration required)
~Closing reception
All this amounts to over 20 hours of programming & interaction with fellow alternative photographers!

*Workshop Information Symposium registration fees do not include workshops. Workshops are currently only available to those also registering for the symposium.

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Gum Bichromate PrintingInstructor: Scott McMahon Discover the beauty and painterly quality of the gum bichromate process. This workshop will focus on the light-sensitivity of chromium salts mixed with gum arabic and watercolor pigment... Students will contact print their negatives using actinic light sources and render images in multiple layers of pigmented gum emulsion. Watercolor and printmaking paper will be used as a support to print saturated images from a broad palette of color. Various light-resists may be used such as: large format negatives (4x5 and larger), pinhole, enlarged negatives, inkjet transparencies, cliché-verre, drawings and virtually anything that will block out varying amounts of light. This workshop will also focus on print manipulation techniques, guidelines for mixing chemistry and colors, sizing and coating paper. Students should bring: 2 or 3 large format negatives (see above). Medium format negatives will work if a miniature print is desired. Class is limited to 8 participants. Location: Pittsburgh Filmmakers Date: May 31, 2008 (Saturday) Time: 9:00am to 4:00pm (with one-hour break for lunch) Tuition: 0 Materials fee: (payable directly to Scott) Price: $200.00 This product has sold out.

**Cancellation Policy: Symposium and/or Workshop reservations may be cancelled for a full refund up to midnight April 17, 2008. Reservations cancelled between April 18 and midnight May 15 will receive a 50% refund and cancellations after May 15 will receive no refund.

**For those who have not pre-registered on-site registration will be available on Thursday from 3-5pm and again on Friday from 8-10:30am: cash or check only. No credit cards will be accepted for in-person registration.