{"title":"April Workshops","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"classic-analogue-development","title":"Classic analogue development","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDevelop your own analogue negatives with the help of specialists. Discover the magic of the apparition of an image engulfed in red light and the scent of hyposulfite – a must-have experience! The lab can be rented by the hour. You can work alone by yourself or be teached and coached. Products available at the boutique on request.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooking of the laboratory upon request. 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With high sensitivity and a wide range of tones, this process captures the full range of emotions and produce masterpieces that showcase the photographer's creativity from start to finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrivate lab for max 2 persons\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession 3 hours\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"86\" data-end=\"413\"\u003eAt \u003cstrong data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"104\"\u003eTinyGallery\u003c\/strong\u003e, participants can transform any digital photograph—even one taken with a phone—into a beautiful \u003cstrong data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"224\"\u003eVanDyke Brown print\u003c\/strong\u003e, a process that dates back to the 19th century. The workshop guides them through each step, combining traditional craftsmanship with modern technology to create a unique, handmade image.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"415\" data-end=\"894\"\u003eThe session begins with a brief introduction to the VanDyke Brown printing technique, its history, and its rich, warm tones that give prints a timeless character. Participants are invited to choose a digital image that they’d like to turn into a print. With guidance, they adjust the photo to optimize contrast and tonal balance before inverting it into a negative. This negative is then printed on a transparent film, allowing it to serve as a master copy for the final print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"1320\"\u003eNext, the focus shifts to preparing the paper. A fine-quality, cotton-based paper is hand-coated with a special light-sensitive solution, which must dry completely in a dimly lit space. Once ready, the sensitized paper is carefully placed under the digital negative and exposed to UV light. This step allows the image to emerge gradually, with sunlight or a UV lamp serving as the creative force behind the transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1322\" data-end=\"1748\"\u003eAfter exposure, the print goes through a gentle process of rinsing and fixing, which stabilizes the image and brings out its full depth and warmth. At this stage, variations in toning can be explored, adding subtle shifts in color to personalize the final result. Once the print is fully washed and dried, it reveals the unmistakable charm of a handcrafted photographic artwork, each piece carrying its own unique character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1750\" data-end=\"2041\"\u003eThe workshop concludes with a moment to admire the results, discuss the process, and explore ways to experiment further. 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font-weight:300; font-size:36pt;\n    line-height:1.1; color:#1a1814; margin:0 0 0.5rem 0;\"\u003e\n    Cyanotype\u003cbr\u003eInitiation Workshops\n  \u003c\/h1\u003e\n\n  \u003chr class=\"tg-rule\"\u003e\n\n  \u003c!-- ── STANDFIRST ── --\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"tg-intro\"\u003e\n    Two sessions in which light becomes medium, image becomes presence, and photography reveals what ordinary sight cannot see.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003c!-- ── INTRO BODY ── --\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    The cyanotype is one of photography's oldest processes — a slow chemistry of iron and sunlight that produces prints of a deep, unearthly blue. At TinyGallery, we bring it back not as nostalgia, but as a way of looking again: at images, at symbols, at the invisible currents that run beneath the surface of things.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Each workshop is built around the current exhibition — \u003cem\u003eGrand Art in Photography: Symbolism, Esotericism, Occultism\u003c\/em\u003e — and draws on its archive of images, ideas and atmosphere. You will leave with prints you made yourself, and perhaps with a different sense of what a photograph can hold.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n  \u003c!-- ══════════════════════════════════\n       WORKSHOP 1\n  ═══════════════════════════════════ --\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"tg-label\" style=\"margin-top:1rem;\"\u003eWorkshop 01\u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003eApparition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"tg-pull\"\u003e\n    The invisible in photography has held its place from the very first moment light touched film — as though every image carries something that insists on remaining.\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    What does a photograph retain that the eye does not? This workshop opens with a brief historical survey of photography's long entanglement with the unseen: spirit images, double exposures, the trace left by bodies that were no longer there. We move through the archive of the current exhibition, pausing on images where absence speaks as loudly as presence.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Then we make. Using the cyanotype process and a selection of copyright-free images — as well as prints from TinyGallery's own collection — each participant creates three images. The choice of what to expose, what to overlay, what to leave in shadow is yours.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat the session includes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Historical introduction to photography and the invisible (15 min) — followed by two hours of hands-on cyanotype making. Images printed on paper using light-sensitive solution, iron salts and water. No prior experience required. All materials supplied.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n  \u003c!-- ══════════════════════════════════\n       WORKSHOP 2\n  ═══════════════════════════════════ --\u003e\n  \u003cspan class=\"tg-label\" style=\"margin-top:1rem;\"\u003eWorkshop 02\u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003ch2\u003eAstrology\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n  \u003cdiv class=\"tg-pull\"\u003e\n    To read the sky is to read oneself — the solar sign, the lunar sign, two mirrors held at different angles to the same light.\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    This workshop begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of astrology: the solar sign, the lunar sign, the character of each and the tension between them. No prior knowledge assumed. We then move into image-making, each participant selecting and printing two cyanotypes rooted in their own astral coordinates — one for the sun, one for the moon.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Bring your date, time and place of birth if you know them. If you don't, we'll work with what the sky offers.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eWhat the session includes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Introduction to astrology — solar and lunar signs (30 min) — followed by two hours of cyanotype making. Images are created from copyright-free source material and your personal astral coordinates. All materials supplied. No prior experience required.\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n  \u003c!-- ── CLOSING PULL ── --\u003e\n  \u003cdiv class=\"tg-pull\" style=\"margin-top:3rem;\"\u003e\n    Each session runs for approximately two and a half hours. You leave with prints, with context, and with a process you can continue.\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n  \u003c!-- ── FOOTER NOTE ── --\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"tg-footer-note\"\u003e\n    Workshops led by Monya Ghabantani, in the space of TinyGallery, Brussels. Conducted in the context of the exhibition \u003cem\u003eGrand Art in Photography: Symbolism, Esotericism, Occultism\u003c\/em\u003e, in collaboration with Maison Hannon. Booking by session. 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