WORKSHOPS
Choose a workshop experience that fits your needs as an artist and practitioner. Customizable private and group workshops can be tailor-fit to your skill level and interests, and scheduled when and where you need them. Workshops are available in wet plate ambrotypes, tintypes, and negatives, dry plate negatives, platinum prints, albumen prints, salt prints, carbon prints, kallitypes, and collotypes, to name the heavy hitters! If you don't see the process you're interested please don't hesitate to be in touch, at the very least we can refer you to a skilled practitioner in your area of interest.
GROUP
Group workshops are a great way to get into wet plate photography (or whatever process you are interested in), allowing you to learn from other participants' successes and failures, work independently, and share costs.
PRIVATE
One-on-one workshops are ideal for serious students looking to establish or improve their workflow and dive deeper into a particular process. These are practice-driven workshops designed to give you a firm understanding of the chemistry and equipment you need to continue making successful images in your own workspace.
PRODUCTION
Production-focused workshops shift away from the granular details of process toward achieving your particular vision as an artist. Alternative process photography is full of unexpected problems to solve, whether you are creating 30x40 inch ambrotypes in the field or 4x5 foot silver gelatin prints in the darkroom. If you have an uncompromising vision or a hard deadline, these goal-oriented workshops are intended out to iron out the challenges and get you the images you need.
Little River Studio
Luther Gerlach has been working in historical photographic processes for the past 40 years. His Connecticut barn houses three stories devoted to photography. On the lower level, Gerlach's 800 sq ft darkroom is equipped to produce mural-sized prints in a variety of historical printing processes including platinum, carbon, albumen, and silver gelatin. On the ground floor, he builds cameras and contact printing frames in his workshop. And upstairs, overlooking 100+ acres of conservation land, is a newly renovated private apartment, currently available to clients at no extra charge. Be in touch.