The kallitype process is an historic photographic process that gives a range of tones from warm

blacks to sepia tone. The process is often used as a less expensive but just as beautiful – and

more versatile – alternative to platinum/palladium printing. This workshop will go over the

basics of how to create images using the photogram technique as well as with photographic

negatives. Both digital and analog photographs can be converted to digital negatives. We will

go over a few different sensitizers and developers to get different tonal effects, as well as the

process for developing and fixing the prints. This workshop is best for beginners with

alternative process, but no experience is necessary. The workshop is open to participants 15

and older.

Adam Finkelston is an educator, artist, and publisher based in Kansas City. He has taught

cyanotype and other alternative photographic processes to hundreds of students at the high

school level, at the Kansas City Art Institute, and at public and private workshops in Kansas City,

New Orleans, and St. Joseph, MO. He has shown his own artwork in group and solo exhibitions

throughout the United States and internationally. Mr. Finkelston is also the publisher of The

Hand Magazine, an international journal for photography, printmaking and collage. The Hand

Magazine celebrates and encourages the presence of the artist’s hand in reproduction-based

processes.