Lith Printing Intensive
Level 2-4
Lith printing is a fascinating alternative process know for its delicate tonal palate, rich shadows, and luminous highlights. In this class, master printer Ray Bidegain will show you how to make beautiful lith prints of your own. Ray will demystify the lith process and show you how to get consistent results.
You’ll work hands-on with your own negatives in the Newspace darkroom as you experiment with the technique. This class is a wonderful opportunity to diversify your darkroom skills. At the end of the day, you’ll have a stack of your own lith prints and the skills necessary to replicate the process on your own.
Required prerequisite: Beginning Darkroom or equivalent.
Students should bring black and white negatives. All other materials provided.
Ray Bidegain was born in Tucson, Arizona and started studying photography in high school. At age 17 he began working on weekends for a large studio that offered wedding photography to the Hispanic community in Southern Arizona. Ray graduated from Brooks Institute of Photography in 1981 and returned to Tucson to operate his own studio before moving to Portland, Oregon. After 17 years as a studio portrait photographer, Ray turned to fine art photography, eventually teaching himself the art of platinum printing and, later, wet-plate collodion. Fascinated by both the science and the art of photography and printmaking, Ray is an engaging and respected photo instructor throughout the Pacific Northwest. Ray’s photographs are internationally collected, and his work has been exhibited across the United States, and in France, Germany, and Scotland. For the past two years Ray served as President of the Portland Photographer’s Forum. He is currently represented by LightBox Gallery in Astoria, and by Russ Levin in Monteray.