These days we all carry a camera everywhere we go, but what do we do with the photos? Some get shared online but most of them just sit on our phones and are never seen again. The cyanotype process is a quick, safe, easy, and enjoyable way to make physical prints from your best photos from your phone or a dedicated camera, perhaps as a gift, as a memento for yourself, or as part of an art project. This workshop will show you how to go from photo to print and all materials for the afternoon will be included.

The cyanotype printing process dates back to the earliest days of photography and is terrifically versatile and varied. At its simplest it can be used to make photographs without a camera in the form of photograms, but it can also produce detailed and beautiful prints from conventional negatives. Chris fell in love with cyanotypes several years ago when he was looking for a way to make prints without a darkroom.

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About the artist

Chris Routledge is a photographer and artist who is increasingly drawn to alternative photographic methods. He exhibits his work regularly, notably in solo exhibitions at the Heaton Cooper Gallery, Grasmere, in 2019, at Veszprém, Hungary as part of their European Capital of Culture programme in March/April 2023. In 2025 he is exhibiting photographs of Cumbrian forests at the Brynmor Jones Library in Hull, and of Cumberland and Westmoreland wrestlers in an exhibition with painter Janet Moss at The Florence Arts Centre, Egremont.