Monika Fabijanczyk is a photographer and an architect, based in County Wicklow, Ireland. Her country of origin is Poland. She studied photography at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and has had work exhibited in Ireland and United Kingdom.
Monika works with analogue equipment, film and the 19th century photographic processes, creating labour intensive, hand crafted photographs. She specialises in the wet plate collodion technique, producing one of a kind images on glass and metal plates. She is a historical photography tutor in the Gallery of Photography in Dublin and Belfast Exposed, Belfast.
She provides individual workshops in the Galerie Lisette, in Enniskerry village. Her commercial / digital work mostly relates to architecture, interiors and architectural models.
11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Saturday, 29 July 2023
This intensive one day workshop led by experienced wet collodionist Monika Fabijanczyk gets you preparing plates, making exposures, developing, and varnishing your own wet collodion plates. Ideal for any photographer who wants to try something new – you can achieve results you will be proud of, and of course, you get to keep your work.
Bring some props for your still life image, for example, fruit, flowers, pottery, interesting objects.
Everything else is supplied, including 5 x 4 cameras, lights, all chemistry, clear glass, black glass and metal plates. Bring a steady hand and be prepared to fall in love with this most bewitching of processes!