Anthotype Photography Workshop

Anthotype photography workshop in Cascais with Inês Catarino, a hands-on introduction to one of the most poetic and process-driven alternative photographic techniques available, at 45 euros. Using pigments extracted from plants, flowers, spices and vegetables together with sunlight, you create photographic prints that are as much a product of nature as they are of photography, guided by a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in analogue photography, natural pigments and the search for a more sustainable and ephemeral vision of image-making. No prior photography experience needed.

The session moves through the full anthotype process: an introduction to photographic printing using natural plant pigments, pigment extraction, coating paper with the pigments and composing the print, exposing the prints to sunlight and observing and discussing the results together. While the anthotypes are being exposed, participants experiment with natural reagents, painting, mark-making and stamp printing using the pigments they have produced, keeping the session active and exploratory throughout. Anthotype is a slow photographic technique that invites a different pace of making, a genuine pause from the instant image culture we live in, and an encounter with local flora, natural colour and the unpredictability of light as a creative collaborator.

What you’ll learn

🌿 An introduction to anthotype as an alternative photographic process
🌿 How to extract natural pigments from plants, flowers, spices and vegetables
🌿 How to coat paper with natural pigments and compose a print for sun exposure
🌿 How sunlight develops an anthotype and how to read and discuss the results
🌿 Natural reagent experimentation, painting, mark-making and stamp printing with pigments

What’s included

🌸 All natural materials including plants, flowers and pigment extraction supplies
🌸 Paper, coating materials and all tools for the session
🌸 Full guidance from Inês Catarino throughout
🌸 Your finished anthotype prints to take home

What you leave with

Handmade anthotype prints created through plant pigments and sunlight, a direct encounter with one of photography’s most slow and nature-rooted processes and a new way of thinking about what a photographic image can be.

I am Inês Catarino, a multidisciplinary artist born in 1994 with my work rooted in analogue photography and its alternative processes. I studied Photography at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar and have spent years developing work with natural pigments and motifs including anthotypes. My practice encompasses slow analogue photography, natural pigment extraction for printing and dyeing, and work across fabric, sewing and writing, in a search for the sublime between nature and human action and a more sustainable vision of photography and art.

Price 45 euros. Takes place in Cascais. No prior photography or art experience needed. All materials included.