Date: June 21st
Time: 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Photo Works:  7300 Macarthur Blvd, Glen Echo, MD 20812
Admission: Free with RSVP. Limited Spots Available

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Event: Oil printing demonstration (making photographs with lithographic Ink)

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Join us for a demonstration of the alternative photographic oil printing process, which relies on the fact that oil and water do not mix. Offered by Photo Works instructor and Handmade Photography Group leader Mac Cosgrove-Davies, you are invited to watch striking photographic prints emerge from seemingly nothing using lithographic ink. While the basics of this process are relatively simple, the artistic avenues it opens are vast. Come get inspired to take a closer look.

 

 

Instructor’s Bio:

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Mac Cosgrove-Davies is a self-taught photographer who has been practicing historic photographic processes since 1979, including gum bichromate, cyanotype, VanDyke, palladium, oil printing, carbon printing, and wet plate collodion. Mac teaches handmade photo printing methods and leads the Hand Made Photo Group at Photo Works in Glen Echo Park, MD.

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Mac’s images are contemplative observations of life and the world around him. Using antique and hand-made film cameras in various large and panoramic formats (21/4x31/4, 4x5, 5x7, 6x8, and 8x10 inches as well as 5-inch panoramic), he seeks to match each unique image to the beauty and elegance of the selected photographic process.

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In addition to building the occasional camera, printing frame, picture frame, or other photographic gadget, he also creates books, boxes, and presentation portfolios for his prints. He exhibits widely and is represented in various collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Library of Congress, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and Maier Museum.