Berlin Blueprints

In the artist's words:

With Berlin Blueprints we will be enchanted by the power of pure sun light and chemistry. In this workshops we will make our own blue prints. We will compose our images from the flowers, branches, stones and other things we find in the garden and the surrounding area. In a creative process and in collaboration with nature we develop blue images of the flora and fauna of the nature surrounding us.

The so-called cyanotype is one of the oldest photographic techniques. After the daguerreotype and the calotype, it is the third developed method for the production of stable photographic images and works completely without a camera and without a darkroom – only with the help of sunlight. Our images will turn a radiant, fascinating, deep, poetic blue. At the end of the workshop we will hold high-contrast photograms and deep blue photographic images in our hands – each blueprint blueprint a unique specimen.

Anna Falck-Ytter studied art history and media science and after working many years for different exhibition venues for photography such as Fotomuseum Winterthur and C/O Berlin, her love and fascination for the medium unfolded. Currently she is working as a press/communication officer for KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.