Salt Prints

With Mohamed Abdelwahab

Ages 17+

In English and Arabic

Have you ever wondered how to develop a photograph manually? Learn the full salt printing process, a 19th-century technique based on chemistry and light.

Coat paper with a salt solution, sensitize it with silver nitrate, and prepare contact negatives before exposing images with UV light. Work through each stage step by step, gaining an understanding of how early photographic processes operate.

Finally, process and tone your prints, observing how small shifts in light, timing and handling create subtle variations in each image. Through this hands-on approach, the workshop invites experimentation and offers a tactile way of engaging with photography.

Designed for photographers, artists and creatives at all levels, this session is free and materials are provided.

Sharjah Art Foundation is committed to making its programmes inclusive and accessible. You can arrange for any support needed through the registration form.

For more information, email learning@sharjahart.org, or call (06) 544 4113.

About the artist:

A long-time classical photographer and printmaker, Mohamed Abdelwahab works with a number of nineteenth-century photography techniques, including cyanotype, Van Dyke print, wet collodion plate, salt print, kallitype, traditional darkroom printing processes, platinum-palladium print, and gum dichromate. Founder of The Darkroom Cairo, he teaches and practises analogue photography and experimental printmaking in the UAE and the surrounding region.

Registration is closed as we have reached full capacity.