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Workshop Overview

  • Language
    Portuguese, English
  • Duration
    2.5
  • Difficulty
    All Levels
  • Private Groups & Team Building
  • 4
    Min Group Size
  • 10
    Max Group Size
  • 48 hours
    Advance Booking Time
  • €20
    Price Per Person (Groups)
  • €100
    Minimum Booking Value
  • On-Site, Off-Site
    Location Options
  • Next Date
    Upon Request
Anthotypes are an alternative photographic printing technique, that uses natural pigments from plants, vegetables and, sometimes, spices to create delicate prints. The natural pigments react with sunlight, burning out it's color, and leaving traces of our pressed flowers on paper or fabric. The session moves through the full Anthotype process, starting with a small introduction to analogue photography that

Schedule Program

15 min Welcome & Introduction the process
30 min Extracting pigments from plants and veggies
30 min Composing print & sunlight exposure
15 min Sewing your own almanac
30 min Visual experimentation with pigments

What's Included

Included

  • All materials and tools
  • Refreshments: Coffee, water and tea
  • Your own prints to take home!

Location Details

R. São João 12, 2785-124 São Domingos de Rana, Portugal

Look for the green gate. I can also provide coordinates to the entrance

Outdoor Free parking Near public transport

Bookings close 24 hours before the workshop starts.

Your Teacher

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Inês Catarino (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist, with her work rooted in analog photography and its alternative processes. In high school (Visual Arts, 2012) she joined the Analog Laboratory Club, where she learned the basics of developing and printing from photographic film.

She graduated in Photography at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (2016), where she started developing work with natural motifs and pigments, e.g. prints (called Anthotype). She was part of organizing, and participating, in a few community events related to photography and other arts. Also organizing a few collective pop-up exhibitions in Lisbon throughout the years.

In 2023, Lisbon, she enrolled in a series of workshops, offered by Tira-Olhos (an experimental photography association), where photography met performance, drawing and other mediums. Concluding it with the project Somatic Cyanotype - exhibited in a few photographic festivals and other exhibitions.

Her present work encompasses slow analog photography, the extraction of natural pigments for printing and dyeing. Together with other mediums like fabric, sewing, writing and others, in a search for the sublime between nature and human action. Inviting the search for a more sustainable view of photography and arts, and the idea of ephemeral work, that replicates the cycles of nature.

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