Artist Brittonie Fletcher will lead a hands-on workshop that explores the Victorian plant-based photographic process of the anthotype. Using plants, leaves, flowers, and vegetables, you will discover how to extract and modify their natural colours to make your own photographic images. You will learn about the history of the process, a little bit of science and use found objects and materials to make interesting compositions.

The workshop will guide participants through the process, which includes preparing emulsions, grinding, extracting and filtering, applying emulsion to paper, making stencils and aesthetic choices, assembling the printing frame ready for exposure, as well as an insight from Brittonie into the history of the process and a discussion about light, climate, location and materials.