Transform Photographs with Gum Printing

With Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Ages 17+

In English and Arabic

Create painterly images from photographs using gum bichromate printing. This nineteenth-century technique combines light-sensitive materials with watercolour pigments to produce richly layered works.

Learn the fundamentals of gum printing, from preparing and coating the paper to exposing and developing an image by hand. Experiment with layering, colour, texture and registration while taking in how the unpredictability of the process can shape the final image.

Suitable for photographers, artists and anyone interested in historical and experimental image-making, this workshop provides an introduction to one of photography's most enduring techniques for handcrafted printing. 

This session is free, and all materials are provided.

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

For more information, email learning@sharjahart.org or call (06) 568 8800.

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.