Photopolymer Gravure Workshop
Wed 12 Nov
|Lux Darkroom
Learn how to make beautiful intaglio prints from your photographs on this 2 day workshop with Constanza Isaza
Time & Location
12 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 13 Nov 2025, 16:30
Lux Darkroom, 22-24 Prince of Wales Rd, London NW5 3LG, UK
About
Our photopolymer gravure workshop combines the best of two worlds: printmaking and photography. The photogravure process, developed in the 1870s, involved etching a photographic image into a copper plate, from which prints could then be produced. The modern equivalent – photopolymer gravure - replaces the copper plate with a photosensitive polymer plate, making the process faster and easier to learn, as well as reducing the maker’s exposure to hazardous chemistry.
This two day course will focus on making prints from photopolymer plates, as well as providing an overview of the platemaking process:
Calibrating polymer plate exposure
Producing the digital transparency
Exposing, washing out and hardening the polymer plate
Preparing the paper, inking the polymer plate and pulling the print
Drying and protecting the print
You will be able to make gravure prints from at least three of your own photographic images, which you will need to send to us via email ahead of the workshop.
No prior experience of intaglio printing is required. All materials will be provided.