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Shadow Catchers Exhibition and Workshop Fundraiser

NOTE: DATE HAS CHANGED Saturday 15th January 2010, 1:00pm
Victoria & Albert Museum

Call the office on 020 7793 0000 for more details and to book your place.


zoom in shadow catchers exhibition and workshop fundraiser © Floris Neusüss, 'Untitled Berlin, 1962'
zoom in shadow catchers exhibition and workshop fundraiser - sunprints © lillieinthecity on Flickr

Zoom In will be going on an exhibition and workshop outing to celebrate camera-less photography. The events are happening from 1.00pm onwards. First meet at Zoom In to experiment with sunprints during a workshop in which you will produce your own camera-less photographs! Then we'll all head off to visit this inspiring exhibition.

The exhibition Shadow Catchers at the Victoria & Albert Museum presents the work of five international contemporary artists who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper. Camera-less photographs are also always 'an original' because they are not made from a negative. Encountered as fragments, traces, signs, memories or dreams, they leave room for the imagination, transforming the world of objects into a world of visions.

Sunprints are based on the cyanotype process, which has been used since the 19th century. It is a technique that uses sunlight and water on a chemically treated piece of paper to create images. Objects that eclipse the sun's light will show up in white, with the rest of the paper turning a vibrant Prussian Blue allowing you to make prints of physical objects or transfer digital images via transparency sheet. Layering techniques, motion, and manipulation of the paper itself are all implements in the Sunprinter’s toolbox.

Event Details: We will meet up in a café in South Kensington (venue TBC), wait for everyone to arrive and get to know each other, before we head out to the Victoria & Albert Museum to visit the exhibition. We will then reconvene to do the workshop in Hyde Park then we will go to a local bar / café to dry our prints!

Everybody attending the event will gain entry to the exhibition and have the chance to participate in the workshop and produce their own sunprints. You will also receive a 10% off voucher on our Annual Membership at Zoom In and have the opportunity to enter our raffle for a chance to win the exhibition catalogue worth £40.

This event is open to all for a modest contribution of £25 towards Zoom In's Work Placement programme. This includes entrance to the exhibition and materials for sunprints.
Call the office on 020 7793 0000 for more details and to book your place.

Each year Zoom In offers 25 work placement opportunities to disadvantaged young people from the local community providing experience and training for those wishing to gain skills in both the photography industry and running an arts and educational based organisations. So far we have 15 young people booked in to come and do a work placement with us in 2011.

Securing funding for this year's Work Placement programme has been more difficult than in previous years and we need to ensure that we can at least cover equipment and material costs.

  • £5 covers a roll of black and white film and processing
  • £10 covers digital prints for their sketchbooks
  • £15 covers a day outing to a photography exhibition in a London gallery / museum (inc travel, ticket and snacks)
  • £25 covers a box of black and white darkroom paper to do pinhole and prints on
  • £40 covers access to digital SLR camera equipment
  • £60 covers an annual membership at Zoom In so the young people can come back and used the facilities in their own time once placement is over

Take a look at some of our recent Work Placements' work here, and see what kinds of activities you could support.

This programme simply could not function without the amazing help of our volunteers who give their free time assisting and training our young people, thank you!

Call the office on 020 7793 0000 for more details and to book your place.