Salted paper printing is an antique photographic process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1833. Salt prints were the very first silver images to be printed on paper. In this handson class, you’ll get to experience the beauty and magic of salt printing for yourself.

You’ll learn to coat fine-art paper and print your own images as you work closely with master printer Ray Bidegain. The delicate warm tones of salted prints give images a gorgeous, historical quality, and the fine-art paper has a rich, organic quality impossible to reproduce with more modern techniques.

Students must bring negatives. 2 1/4 or larger negatives (or enlarged digital negatives) are recommended.

Interested students may take this class in conjunction with The Digital Negative.

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.

www.rbstudio.com