Developing Black and White Film with Chemistry from Central Coast Plants
12-4pm, September 7th 2025, Tancredi & Morgen, Carmel Valley, CA
Learn to develop your own black and white film and mix plant-based film developer chemistry from a selection of brews made from plants currently in abundance along the Central Coast.
Workshop participants will have the option to bring 1 or 2 (preferred) rolls of film (35mm preferred, 120 ok too!) that they have already exposed/ shot in advance. Please try to shoot Kentmere 400 or 100, Ilford HP5 400, or Delta 100.
If unable to purchase and shoot film in advance of the workshop, Beatrice will have film and cameras available for folks to shoot film during the workshop. Please select the $120 rate, which includes this extra materials fee, if planning to shoot film during the workshop.
We will all develop our film together starting with 1 roll and then improvise for the 2nd roll based on results of the first.
The workshop format is likewise a practice in non-attachment, so please keep in mind that results will vary. Participants will come away with an understanding of basic sustainable darkroom practices that they can continue at home.
All other materials will be provided. No experience developing or loading film tanks is necessary. Beatrice is willing to demonstrate and assist with loading.
Bio:
Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based land artist, archivist, historian, and darkroom instructor working in black-and-white film photography through sustainable, alternative darkroom processes equally in dialogue with place and medium. Since moving back to the Bay Area from New York in 2018, she has been exploring ways that reconnect her to her home state — along the way learning, questioning, and considering its complex histories with a sense of wonder spanning environmentalism, art and design history, archival methods, and darkroom-based graphic design.
She develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using ingredients including foraged plants, collected rainwater, and low-toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemistry.
Her photographic style often features landscapes and architecture through in-camera double exposures and compositions that connect multiple images, or which use the same negative multiple times and at various scales and orientations. She pairs developers with plants featured in or that grow within the environments pictured. She sees developing with plants as a circular process where the art she produces is as much about process as it is the final objects.
12-4pm, September 7th 2025, Tancredi & Morgen, Carmel Valley, CA
Learn to develop your own black and white film and mix plant-based film developer chemistry from a selection of brews made from plants currently in abundance along the Central Coast.
Workshop participants will have the option to bring 1 or 2 (preferred) rolls of film (35mm preferred, 120 ok too!) that they have already exposed/ shot in advance. Please try to shoot Kentmere 400 or 100, Ilford HP5 400, or Delta 100.
If unable to purchase and shoot film in advance of the workshop, Beatrice will have film and cameras available for folks to shoot film during the workshop. Please select the $120 rate, which includes this extra materials fee, if planning to shoot film during the workshop.
We will all develop our film together starting with 1 roll and then improvise for the 2nd roll based on results of the first.
The workshop format is likewise a practice in non-attachment, so please keep in mind that results will vary. Participants will come away with an understanding of basic sustainable darkroom practices that they can continue at home.
All other materials will be provided. No experience developing or loading film tanks is necessary. Beatrice is willing to demonstrate and assist with loading.
Bio:
Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based land artist, archivist, historian, and darkroom instructor working in black-and-white film photography through sustainable, alternative darkroom processes equally in dialogue with place and medium. Since moving back to the Bay Area from New York in 2018, she has been exploring ways that reconnect her to her home state — along the way learning, questioning, and considering its complex histories with a sense of wonder spanning environmentalism, art and design history, archival methods, and darkroom-based graphic design.
She develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using ingredients including foraged plants, collected rainwater, and low-toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemistry.
Her photographic style often features landscapes and architecture through in-camera double exposures and compositions that connect multiple images, or which use the same negative multiple times and at various scales and orientations. She pairs developers with plants featured in or that grow within the environments pictured. She sees developing with plants as a circular process where the art she produces is as much about process as it is the final objects.
12-4pm, September 7th 2025, Tancredi & Morgen, Carmel Valley, CA
Learn to develop your own black and white film and mix plant-based film developer chemistry from a selection of brews made from plants currently in abundance along the Central Coast.
Workshop participants will have the option to bring 1 or 2 (preferred) rolls of film (35mm preferred, 120 ok too!) that they have already exposed/ shot in advance. Please try to shoot Kentmere 400 or 100, Ilford HP5 400, or Delta 100.
If unable to purchase and shoot film in advance of the workshop, Beatrice will have film and cameras available for folks to shoot film during the workshop. Please select the $120 rate, which includes this extra materials fee, if planning to shoot film during the workshop.
We will all develop our film together starting with 1 roll and then improvise for the 2nd roll based on results of the first.
The workshop format is likewise a practice in non-attachment, so please keep in mind that results will vary. Participants will come away with an understanding of basic sustainable darkroom practices that they can continue at home.
All other materials will be provided. No experience developing or loading film tanks is necessary. Beatrice is willing to demonstrate and assist with loading.
Bio:
Beatrice Thornton is an Oakland-based land artist, archivist, historian, and darkroom instructor working in black-and-white film photography through sustainable, alternative darkroom processes equally in dialogue with place and medium. Since moving back to the Bay Area from New York in 2018, she has been exploring ways that reconnect her to her home state — along the way learning, questioning, and considering its complex histories with a sense of wonder spanning environmentalism, art and design history, archival methods, and darkroom-based graphic design.
She develops film and prints in her home darkroom, creating developer recipes using ingredients including foraged plants, collected rainwater, and low-toxicity household ingredients in place of traditional darkroom chemistry.
Her photographic style often features landscapes and architecture through in-camera double exposures and compositions that connect multiple images, or which use the same negative multiple times and at various scales and orientations. She pairs developers with plants featured in or that grow within the environments pictured. She sees developing with plants as a circular process where the art she produces is as much about process as it is the final objects.