Experimental Salt Print Laboratory 

Salt Print Experimental Laboratory introduce participants to one of the earliest photographic processes: the salt print, invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830s.

Through a hands-on experimental approach, participants learn how light, salt, and photosensitive chemistry interact with paper to create images.

The Experimental Laboratory explores the salt print process as both a photographic technique and an artistic investigation.

Participants will produce their own salt prints using historical photographic techniques developed in the 1830s, while observing how images slowly emerge from the paper fibers through exposure to light and manual development:

• preparation of salted paper
• coating with salts
• contact printing process
• light exposure
• fixing and washing the prints
• artistic experimentation with textures and materials