"Through an older eye" workshops
"Through and older eye" workshops are a range of workshops and presentations that cover historical photographic techniques that can still be used today to produce expressive and meaningful images. Images that are very different from the digital offerings we are faced with today.
Camera Clubs:
Bleadon Photographic Group analogue photography workshop 1st Nov 2022
After the success of workshops in 2021, for 2022 I am offering four workshops/presentations:
Use Old Cameras to Make New Images
- Photos from February workshop here
Historical & Creative Photo Printing
(Click on the links to download the details)
These are also available as presentations to; Camera Clubs, Photographic Societies and Arts Groups, and to the public as small-group workshops at Clevedon Craft Centre, The Arts Quarter Cheddar and Weston Artspace.
If you have a group of 4 to 6 people who are interested I will arrange a venue for you around the date that you choose.
Presentation cost is £50 in the Somerset/Bristol area, further afield by negotiation depending on travel distance/time.
Workshop cost is £20 per person plus venue costs (around £30-50)
Recent feedback
July 2022
"This is a huge big thank you for the workshop you did today.
I said at the beginning I hadn’t seen a full format camera (other than in pictures), let alone use one and your workshop more than made up for that.
I learnt so much and you made the whole day so enjoyable. You worked your socks off for us."
From June's Wetplate Collodionworkshop
Had a great time this morning doing a wet plate collodion workshop with @oldparson I’m now the proud possessor of a photo of me on a glass plate. I would have worn my crinoline if I had realised…. Will be trying a cyanotype with the plate - of course. Held at the lovely @theartsquartercheddar
April 2022
"A really fun photography workshop today with Simon Williams @oldparson.art . We used vintage cameras, some nearly 100 years old, learnt how to process our film in a darkroom, used x-ray film and glass plates and leant how to use a light meter and set aperture. The kids were allowed to do everything and Simon was great with them. 2 hours flew by, I'd highly recommend booking onto a workshop"
Please contact me for more information at oldparson@me.com