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2025 | Slow Light Workshop: Seeing Light Part 1 — Building and Using a Pinhole Camera
August 8, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Sign up for the third workshop in the Slow Light Series and make a pinhole camera: Aug 8 & Aug 15 (NOTE: Aug 1 workshop has been changed to Aug 8!)
Slow Light Workshop: Seeing Light — Building and Using a Pinhole Camera
Friday, August 8 and 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 will learn how pinhole photography works, construct their own cameras using 3-D printed kits (provided), and expose and develop their first image in the Department of Fine Arts darkroom. Then, before the follow-up workshop on August 15, participants will be encouraged to make their own place-based images as they explore local landscapes. 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 calendar for 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 Garageoff Stadium Way. See the 2024-25 WSU Pullman Parking map and/or contact the Brelsford Visitor Centerfor additional campus parking advice.
