Basic: Cyanotype Printing
Sunday
Photoworks Studio
3/7/26
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3/21/26
Date
5:00 PM
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8:00 PM
Time
Price
$125
Duration
2
About the Course
Learn to create botanical prints using cyanotype, the oldest photographic printing method. You will be guided step-by-step through the process, focusing on composition. In the second session, you'll use digital negatives to print images, blending traditional and modern techniques for unique, beautiful results. $10 Lab fee payable to instructor on first class session. More info: kraus.allison@gmail.com. Minimum age 16.
There will be a $10 materials fee for paper and cyanotype chemicals. Students will need to be able to purchase transparency paper to print their digital negatives, as well as have access to a printer as the printing will be done between the first and second sessions outside of class.
Your Instructor
Ally Kraus
Ally Kraus is an experienced and skilled photographer. She graduated from the American University School of Communications with a BA in Photography and Graphic Design in 2024 She shoots weddings, headshots, glamour portraits, organization events, graduations, architecture/landscapes, photojournalism, and experimental work.
She is currently an intern at Photoworks, a unique photography community at Glen Echo Park. At Photoworks, she has taught photography workshops and assisted with events and gallery exhibitions.
During 2025, she worked on a variety of video and photography projects for Youthcast Media Group, a nonprofit journalism organization that empowers under resourced youth to learn journalism to identify and solve problems facing their communities.
Ally is proficient in both digital and film photography and with Lightroom and Photoshop. She has an interest in alternative photography processes such as cyanotype and Polaroid emulsions.
She is eager to continue to apply and share her skills to make society more equitable, inclusive, welcoming, and artistically inspiring, and to amplify the voices of others.