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Upcoming Photography Classes & Workshops
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Intro to Large Format Photography
Price range: $120.00 through $150.00A 1-Day Class
Saturday, February 21st
12:00pm–3:30pm
Ages 16+A 1-Day Photography Class for Ages 16+
Get started with large-format photography using paper negatives, strobes and natural light.
This class will teach the basics of Large Format – how to load a film holder, how to use a large format camera, how to read a light meter, along with the basics of wet darkroom work. Paper negatives offer an affordable way to get started with large format and are much easier to work with as you can work under normal darkroom safelights.
Practice taking pictures with a 4×5 and 8×10 camera, using photo paper – which has a similar speed and appearance of 19th Cent. processes – offering participants the opportunity to practice natural light portraiture in much the same way it was done 100 years ago.
Very Limited Seats Available. All Materials Included.
Location
CEPA Education Center
Date & Time
Saturday, February 21st
12:00 p.m.–3:30 p.m.Join CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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Intro to Digital Negatives and Cyanotype
Price range: $100.00 through $125.00A 1-Day Class
Saturday, March 14th
12:00pm–3:30pm
Ages 16+A Photography Class for Ages 16+
This class is an introduction to alternative process photography. Alternative or non-silver photography offers both digital and analog photographers the ability to make unique, hand made prints using traditional methods without the need for a darkroom.
In this hybrid photography class, students will learn how to correctly set up and print a digital negative in photoshop, practice the technique for coating water color paper with light sensitive emulsion, and print their images using UV light.
Cyanotype is simple, affordable and non-toxic, serving as a cheap gateway to more advanced non-silver processes such as Platinum Palladium, Calotype, Van Dyke, and many other variations that use a contact print and UV light.
The entire process is more accessible than traditional darkroom photography and can be easily replicated at home or in a classroom.
Supplies are included. Students only need a digital image.
Please call or email info@cepagallery.org if you have questions.
Workshop Location
CEPA Learning Center
Limited Availability
This class is limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times
Saturday, March 14th
12:00pm–3:30pmJoin CEPA Today and Save!
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Platinum Palladium Printing
Price range: $130.00 through $155.00A 1-Day Class
Saturday, March 28th
12:00pm–3:30pm
Ages 16+A Photography Class for Ages 16+
Platinum Palladium was a favorite of early Pictorial photographers, and is still one of most highly regarded fine art printing techniques for it’s delicate and wide tonal range, abilty to control contrast and warmth, and for it’s archival properties. Platinum prints are considered to be the most archival and durable of all traditional printing techniques, having been time tested, the chemistry is extremely stable and will last as long as the paper it’s printed on – for 100’s and 100’s of years.
As Platinum Palladium is a more expensive and advanced process we recommend starting with the Intro to Digital Negatives and Cyanotype class if you’re new to Alt Process photography. This is a hybrid digital/analog class and will briefly touch on many of the same steps as the Intro class, but go much more indepth for considerations specific to Platinum – controlling contrast/warmth via drop count, paper preparation and humidification, and more.
You do not need a darkroom, the entire process can be replicated at home or in a classroom.
Supplies are included. Students only need a digital image.
Please call or email info@cepagallery.org if you have questions.
Workshop Location
CEPA Learning Center
Limited Availability
This class is limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times
Saturday, March 28th
12:00pm–3:30pmJoin CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »
Features from the CEPA Shop
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The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now Catalog
$25.00CEPA Gallery publication from the exhibition for The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now.
The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now will feature 30 contemporary, regional, and international artists and writers whose works juxtapose and interact with archival material to create new imagery that delves into the complexities of time and space, place and memory, nature, and the devastation of civilized society. A 100+ page catalog accompanies the project.
The show aims to bridge growing divides that threaten our future with programming that inspires a cross-generational dialogue and creates a forum for artists and individuals of diverse lived experiences to come together and learn from one another with the intent of pushing back on hatred and racism. Community programming, public art, youth and adult workshops, discussion groups, and speakers will allow individuals to engage with the past as a way to inform the present and future. Community partners of the exhibition include the Holocaust Education Resource Organization (HERO), the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, UB’s Department of Jewish Thought, the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, Mirabo Press, Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, and Journey’s End Refugee Services.
The exhibition has been in planning for many years, long before the current events began to unfold, and is intended to reject hate and promote understanding and empathy among all groups of people. With art’s ability to foster dialogue, CEPA is inviting the community to engage with the exhibition and reflect on the experiences of everyday individuals caught in the crossfire of hatred. CEPA and its partners stand against all forms of racism and violence.
● 122 page full-color catalogs
● Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 in.
● Publisher: CEPA Gallery (2024)
● Language: English
● ISBN: 978-0-939784-38-7
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Ascension of Black Stillness (2021)
$25.00Ascension of Black Stillness, Black Existence and Exploration Through The Disruption of Still Photography
An Exhibition of Black Hope, Alternate Realities, and Parallel Universes Curated by Stacey Robinson
● Perfect bound : 93 pages full color
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-16-3
● Product Dimensions : 8.5 x 11 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery 2021
● Language : English
● ISBN: 978-1-939026-05-7 -
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Odyssey | Warriors Come Home: Combat Veterans Photograph Life After War (2020)
Price range: $35.00 through $45.00Through photography, combat veterans explore their journey back from war. Thirty-seven veterans participated in The Odyssey Workshops, a year long collaborative photography project led by artist Brendan Bannon and Marine Scout/Sniper Julian Chinana. This book explores the endless journey home from war in images that reveal the veterans’ challenges and victories over circumstances.
Preview“There is anguish here, and joy, resilience, pain and courage, and experimentation of all sorts with form in the pursuit of discoveries that might make lives better, or at least more vividly real. Here we witness an odyssey of self-introspection, of battles fought and those still being fought. And they resonate.”
~Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus, International Center of Photography
“This is one of the great photo books about the experience of war, one like no other. Every contributor to Odyssey|Warriors Come Home has been there, on the ground. They all came back, bearing memories and deep feelings. These photographs tell us what words could not. They tell us what it was like to have been the warrior, the care-giver, and the person back home when there are no words to express what happened.”
~Bruce Jackson
SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture
Co-director, SUNY Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative● Soft bound : 176 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-35-6
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 9/16 x 8 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (December 2020)
● Language : English
Support CEPA
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Lab Card
$30.00Not sure what birthday or holiday gift to get for the photographer in your life?
We are now offering punch cards for 6 Hours of Digital or Darkroom Lab Time. Perfect for the darkroom aficionado without a darkroom, or someone looking for a place to print their own work. Save a few bucks off the hourly rate for non-members by buying several hours at a time.
Interested in Discounted Rates? Become a member today!
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About CEPA
Located in Buffalo’s historic Market Arcade Complex, CEPA Gallery is a contemporary photography and visual arts center with impact in both local and national communities.
Originally incorporated as the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts to serve as a community darkroom and exhibition space, CEPA Gallery was founded during the Alternative Space Movement in May 1974 by recent graduates of the University of Buffalo.
Support CEPA
Our funders are just one way CEPA is able to continue on this trajectory, meeting the needs of artists and our community with artistic and arts education programming of the highest international caliber and repute.
Learn more about how you can support CEPA and the arts in Western New York today.