This four-day intensive workshop at Prints on Paper Studio is designed for photographers, book artists, and image-makers working in extended series who are ready to take their projects to press and into book form through photogravure — one of the most singular and revered print processes in photography.
Photogravure renders thousands of distinct tonal transitions in oil — a capacity unmatched by virtually any other photographic print method. At Prints on Paper, that process has been developed and refined by two practitioners who have spent decades at the forefront of fine art printing. For photographers looking to make a unique handmade book, there is no comparable studio.
Participants work with Walker Blackwell and Nathanael Kooperkamp — who together teach, operate, and oversee the gravure process — and with photographer J Carrier, whose seven published photobooks include Elementary Calculus (Mack) and Mi’raj (TIS Books). Blackwell and Kooperkamp guide each participant through the material decisions that define a book made in gravure — image selection and rendering, paper and ink — while Carrier brings his experience as a photobook maker and editor to questions of sequence, layout, and structure.
The four days move from foundation to production: photobook theory, gravure process, and participant share-out on day one; print-testing, editing, sequencing, and material commitment on day two; hands-on plate preparation and printing on days three and four. Each participant also proofs a single editioned print of an image drawn from their project.
You arrive with a developed body of work. You leave with a finished press proof — the basis for a self-published edition, or to share with a publisher.
