Cyanotype

Cyanotype is one of the oldest direct image reproduction techniques still being used. It is a light-reactive photographic method which has mainly been used in architecture, where it became the name-giving technique for copies of architectural plans (=„blueprints“, from cyan).

Still today, cyanotype is an exciting and beautiful technique on the verge between photography and printmaking. Like in the photography development process, a medium (paper, stone, wood, textile, …) is covered with a light-reactive liquid and then objects, images or anything else are placed on top it before the whole package is exposed to UV-light for picture development.

Sounds complicated to you? Don‘t worry, it‘s not. We offer you the opportunity to explore this fabulous artistic technique in one of our workshops at the Kulturlabor, or at any place you would like to book our workshop for. You would like to learn how to make photo- or chemigrammes using cyanotype, or you have some specific image that you would like to get copied in a blueprint-style? Great!

Reach out to us and we will provide you with all the information, process guideance and material you need to start off. Come by and visit our scheduled workshops, or contact Trial&Error by email for private booking.