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31/5/2015

George Awde

Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo

This will be an introductory workshop in the Gum Bichromate printing process. Gum Bichromate is a 19th century light sensitive printing process which mixes gum Arabic, potassium bichomate, and watercolor. In this workshop we will be making digital negatives, mixing and coating emulsion, and exposing and developing images.

Gum bichromate, or gum dichromate as it is also known, is a photographic printing process invented in the early days of photography when, in 1839, Mungo Ponton discovered that dichromates are light sensitive. William Henry Fox Talbot later found that colloids such as gelatin and gum arabic became insoluble in water after exposure to light. Alphonse Poitevin added carbon pigment to the colloids in 1855, creating the first carbon print. In 1858, John Pouncy used colored pigment with gum arabic to create the first color images.

Awde currently an Assistant Professor of photography at Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar and co-director of marra.tein, a residency and research initiative in Beirut. George received his BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art (2004) and his MFA in photography from Yale University’s School of Art (2009). His awards include the Aaron Siskind Foundation's Individual Photographer's Fellowship (2012), Philadelphia Museum of Art's Photography Portfolio Competition (2012), Fulbright US Scholar Grant to Egypt (2012-2013), Alice Kimball English Travel Fellowship (2009), and The Richard Benson Scholarship for Excellence in Photography (2008). In 2015 Awde will be an artist in residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York.

Awde’s work has been exhibited internationally, including his third solo exhibition, His Passing Cover, which was exhibited in 2014 as part of the 15th FotoFest International Biennial in Houston, Texas.

1 - 2 June 2015, 5 - 9 pm
Free Workshop

Contemporary Image Collective
22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat, 4th Floor
Cairo

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