Cyanotype / Blueprint Workshop

Create a life size cyanotype print with your body. Using technology invented in the middle of the nineteenth century and the spring light participants can produce a special photographic artwork. During this event we can get closer to the primitive world of the image, creating something beautiful and truly unique.

*Date will be moved to May 7th in case of rain.
*KYOTOGRAPHIE does not take responsibility for participants belongings or health. Please be aware this event uses chemicals that can harmful to clothing and sensitive skin.

What is Cyanotype:

Cyanotypes are contact prints of a negative or object on photosensitised paper (or other suitable material), exposed to sun or other UV light source. Rendering negatives or objects in Prussian blue, cyanotype is a straightforward but highly enjoyable process of printing. Photosensitive emulsion is brushed onto paper by hand, which makes each print unique. This camera-less, iron based technique was invented by John Herschel in 1842.

Toshihiro Suzuki

Toshihiro Suzuki was born in 1952 in Kobe. He graduated Kyoto City University of Arts. He worked as a part-time instructor in the College of Image Arts and Sciences in Ritsumeikan University from 2009 to 2016. He was the instructor of photographic workshop. Throughout the workshop, students experience the original moments of movies/photographs emerged in the environment of lights and space before their eyes by using somatic sensation.