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2025 | Slow Light Workshop: Seeing Light Part 2 — Developing Images from Your Pinhole Camera
August 15, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
This is part 2 of the third workshop in the Slow Light Series
Slow Light Workshop: Seeing Light — Developing Images from Your Pinhole Camera
Friday, August 15, 2025, 4:00-6:00pm
Department of Fine Arts WSU, Pullman, WA (meet at the building entrance)
Participants will learn about pinhole photography, construct their own cameras, and use them to make photographic exposures inspired by the Palouse. This hands-on workshop invites participants to slow down and engage deeply with light, time, and material. We’ll explore the roots of photography through simple optical tools, and develop prints that reveal subtle shifts in perception and presence.
On August 8, participants learned how pinhole photography works, constructed their own cameras using 3-D printed kits (provided), and exposed and developed their first image in the Department of Fine Arts darkroom. Then they were encouraged to make their own place-based images before part 2 of the workshop. On Friday, August 15, participants will return to the darkroom to develop images and discuss what they learned. This will also be an opportunity to help curate “Slow Light,” a pop-up exhibition of work produced during the summer workshops.
This is the third workshop in the Slow Light Series, which engages alternative photography processes such as cyanotype and pinhole cameras, as well as place-based storytelling and imagery. See the museum’s event calendarfor additional workshops. Participants may register for any Slow Light Workshop: You are welcome to take just one, or all of them! (If you register for Seeing Light, make sure you are ready to attend on both August 8 and August 15.) Each workshop is free and open to the public, though registration is required. See link above.
About the Teacher | Keegan Baatz is a photographic artist and MFA candidate at Washington State University. His work explores themes of infrastructure, fragmentation, and place through experimental photographic processes including CMYK separation, physical intervention, and analog techniques. Baatz’s practice bridges documentary and material experimentation to reframe how we see rural and infrastructural landscapes, often engaging with systems theory, archival impulse, and ecological observation.
Funding | Provided by a Publicly Engaged Fellowship from the David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities. Organized by Keegan Baatz, MFA Candidate, Department of Art WSU and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU.
Image | Courtesy of Keegan Baatz
Location & Parking
This workshop takes place at the Fine Arts Center on Wilson Road across from the south entrance to Martin Stadium on the WSU Pullman campus. Hourly parking is available in the Smith Center Garage off Stadium Way. See the 2024-25 WSU Pullman Parking map and/or contact the Brelsford Visitor Center for additional campus parking advice.
