Family Photo by Hamilton Heights Darkroom
March 21, 12 to 2 pm | Family Photo: Everybody has an old box of photos or negatives of their family members. Students bring in negatives of past and current family and make enlarged prints. Multiple copies can be gifted to others.
For: 18+
(The CAC postcards had an error, but this is for ages 18 and up. Not for children.)
Max Participants: 5
Online registration is required to participate: Register Now
Upcoming Workshops:
February 21 | Photograms for Parent & Child: This is a fun introduction to the darkroom class. Students place objects on photographic paper and expose them to light, then develop the paper in our darkroom. The unusual combinations are personal expressions that utilize the student’s intuition. (Register)
March 21 | Family Photo: Everybody has an old box of photos or negatives of their family members. Students bring in negatives of past and current family and make enlarged prints. Multiple copies can be gifted to others. (Register)
April 18 | Darkroom Open Printing: Students can print what they like. They can print photograms again or combine enlarged negatives with objects for unique photographs. Students who attend two or more of these workshops begin to see the potential of creating art in a traditional darkroom.
May 23 | Matting: Students provide their own work to be matted in preparation for framing and display. This class is suitable for attendance by students from multiple disciplines. A bevel edged window mat (supplied) is cut for each piece and students attach their work. Photos, drawings, collage and old newspaper articles can be matted. Students leave with pieces mounted and ready to frame.
About Facilitators: Michael Macioce & Lenore Browne
Michael Macioce is a founder and the instructor at the Hamilton Heights Darkroom. Practicing photography from his East Village studio since 1982, he is known for combining fine art and documentary photography of the downtown music and art scenes.
A graduate of The School of Visual Arts (1990) Michael’s teaching career began at Parsons School of Design in 1994. He has taught photography at The New School, The School of Visual Arts and The Educational Alliance before founding The Hamilton Heights Darkroom.
He has exhibited at many galleries in the US and Japan, has had work shown in the Jewish Museum of Paris and was a featured photographer at the New York Photo Festival 2010 at St. Ann’s Warehouse, where he lectured an “Photographing Unseen New York.”
You can see his work at his website macioce.org and his instagram @maciocephotography
Lenore Browne started using a film camera after graduating high school. Although she later received business-related degrees, her passion lies with film photography and printing in a traditional darkroom. In her first attempt to display her photographs, Browne’s “Life Lines” was selected in a juried competition for exhibition at the Pen and Brush Gallery, in Greenwich Village, by Daile Kaplan, Vice President and Director of Photographs of the Swann Galleries, May 2009. Thereafter, she began documenting Harlem as it evolves through its Second Renaissance. Browne’s Harlem photographs have exhibited at Hamilton Landmark Galleries, Symphony Space, Harlem Hospital, Columbia University Barrie Russ, Harlem Fine Arts Show and the New York Public Library.
Browne is a founder and Board Member (President) of the Hamilton Heights Darkroom whose nonprofit mission is to provide photography and darkroom printing experience to youth and adults in the Harlem Community.
About Hamilton Heights Darkroom:
Located in the historic Hamilton Heights neighborhood within Harlem, Hamilton Heights Darkroom (HHD) is dedicated to the preservation of traditional darkroom printing and film photography. Students use film cameras, and print from negatives in the darkroom as a basis to learn photography. HHD offers photography basics and darkroom printing for youth, teens and adult printers, from beginner level to advanced.
As darkrooms, photography and public school arts programs disappear, HHD strives to preserve both culture and photography in the Harlem community. HHD offers group printing classes, photography classes (film and digital) and discussion about current photography issues in a collegial setting. HHD collaborates with local community arts and culture organizations seeking youth and adults interested in photography.
