Anna Atkins

The exhibition Painting with a Lens features analogue images by photographer Marie-Jeanne van Hövell tot Westerflier. To accompany this exhibition, Museum JAN will on 3 September organize a masterclass by photographer Daphne Wagemans in which photographic painting is to be taken very literally. Participants will be introduced to the technique and experimentation of blueprinting, also called cyanotyping. This photographic technique - discovered in 1842 by John Herschel and applied to photography by Anna Atkins - has once again become a popular form of development used by many contemporary artists.

In this masterclass, you will learn about this old technique, making sensitized watercolour paper, creating compositions with various objects and developing the blueprint. Of course you can take home the dark blueprints that you made.

Daphne Wageman (born 1982) graduated with honours from the Amsterdam-based Nederlandse Fotovakschool to become a photographic designer and photographer. Her main focus is conceptual and portrait photography and she specialises in 19th-century glass negatives. Wageman combines small elements into a new reality; an extra layer. She loves vanishing worlds, like the ice crystals that used to appear on her grandmother's window. From memory, she recreates her recollections of the past, creating a new reality. To prepare for this, she researches innovative applications in photographic processes and traditional techniques in analogue photography, such as dry plate photography and cyanotype on glass. Her love of craftsmanship is reflected in her innovatively designed and handmade 3D installations.

Note: Do you have special small objects you would like to imprint on your cyanotypy? For exampledried flowers, lace fabriks, translucent objects, crystal glass, a special piece of jewelry? Bring it with you to the master class.

Tickets:

Normal - € 45,00

Friend - € 37,50

Student - € 37,50