Atelier de pratique en famille Motif & Couture — Cyanotype avec Brenda Hoffman

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

The Practice Workshops offer families the chance to discover a photographic technique or approach together. Guided by a photographer-artist, let your creativity express itself! On the occasion of the exhibition PENN & FASHION, this workshop invites participants to create patterns using sewing accessories, while experimenting with early photographic techniques. It is an opportunity to understand the principle of photosensitivity, at the root of the invention of photography, and to discover how light can leave an imprint on a surface. Invented by the English scholar John Herschel in 1842, the cyanotype is a photographic process that uses the photosensitive properties of certain iron salts. It produces monochrome images in a characteristic blue, known as cyan blue. The photogram is a photographic image made without a camera. Objects are placed directly on a photosensitive surface, then exposed to light. The parts protected from light stand out from the rest of the image, revealing the outlines and shapes of the objects. Contact printing involves placing a negative directly on a photosensitive surface in order to obtain a reproduction of it. The contact between the two surfaces transfers the image onto paper or fabric. During the workshop, each participant discovers the different steps involved in creating a cyanotype: sensitizing the paper or fabric, composing the pattern, exposure to light, and rinsing in a basin. Everyone will be able to create their own images using sewing accessories and discover the transformations produced by light. Guided by Brenda Hoffman, photographer-artist, participants experiment, create, and develop their own perspective on images. At the end of the workshop, participants are invited to explore the exhibitions at the MEP. ____________________ Brenda Hoffman is a photographer and visual artist. After studying audiovisual arts in Argentina, she trained in black-and-white printing with Georges Fèvre in Paris. Her work focuses mainly on landscape and botanical study, on chemical experimentation in the laboratory, and on the photosensitive qualities of surfaces. Her series are accompanied by artist's books, two of which, La promenade de Rilke and Absence, have been published in regular edition by Arnaud Bizalion Éditeur. Represented in Uruguay by Espaciofotoarte and in London by Jaggedart, she divides her life between creation and teaching.

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