February 2023
Greetings!
I hope you are healthy and safe and back to “normal” life in 2023. 2022 turned out to be a great year for me with travels to the East Coast, Mongolia, Iceland, Germany, Austria, and 7 or 8 trips to Yosemite.
I have three workshops scheduled with The Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite in 2023, my 24th year teaching in Yosemite. My first workshop, Advanced Platinum/Palladium Printing, is already sold out. Five of the six students are returning from my November 2022 workshop! The May and November workshops are both Platinum/Palladium and Gum Printing with Digital Negatives.
I will also continue to work with Bill Schwab, co-leading tours to Iceland, The Faroe Islands, and other places. Take a look at his website for more info.
Thanks to those of you who have attended my workshops over the last 26+ years. I’ve enjoyed teaching and getting to know a wide variety of talented people from around the world; some of whom have become some of my best friends. Check in once in a while to say hello. I am always happy to answer questions from former students, so don’t hesitate to ask for help.
-Kerik
As of 2015, I am working full-time as an independent photographer/educator/printmaker/filmmaker. I offer workshops in platinum/palladium printing, gum-platinum printing, digital negatives with the QuickCurveDN System at a variety of locations. While I have cut back on my teaching a bit to make time for other things, I still love to teach and will continue to do so as time permits.
I am pleased to have been affiliated with the Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops in Yosemite National Park since 2000. I also offer one-on-one workshops in my home studio tailored to meet the needs of individual students. As of April 2021, I have relocated my home and studio to California’s Central Coast. After 30 years in the SF Bay Area, 31 years in the Sierra Foothills, I have found my Home in my home state, Arroyo Grande located in the unincorporated part of San Luis Obispo County (SLO). The ocean is 2 miles due west of our house as my drones fly. The climate is awesome year-round, the people are kind and laid back (SLO life), especially compared to the Bay, LA, and the Foothills and I have a big part of the state to explore with my cameras (land and aerial). New territory is always a motivation for landscape work. My new (and presumably last) darkroom is about 3x the size of the one I had for the previous 22 years. I completed it in 2022 with the help of a couple of contractors and help with the plumbing from my friend Bill Schwab. If you are interested in attending a workshop in the future, drop me a line and let me know your interest.
Workshops
Ansel Adams Gallery Workshops
The Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite National Park, CA
I will be teaching three workshops for the AAG in 2023. Go HERE for a full listing of the AA Gallery Workshops for 2023 and to sign up.
Palladium and Gum Printing with Digital Negatives
Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite - May 17-20, November 15-18, 2023
This workshop will get you started with the beautiful Palladium and Gum Bichromate Printing processes. You will learn to make digital negatives from your images using the wonderful QCDN Software and how to use those negatives to make beautiful prints. This is a fun and information-packed workshop and no previous experience is required. Students should be familiar with Adobe Photoshop and have good image editing skills to get the most from this workshop.
Advanced Platinum/Palladium Printing
Ansel Adams Gallery, Yosemite - March 15-18, 2023 SOLD OUT
This workshop will take your work in new directions. We will experiment with different papers including Gampi, Kozo, and others. We will also experiment with combining palladium with cyanotype. Students are encouraged to bring their own ideas and we can experiment together! Students should be well-versed in the platinum/palladium process and have experience with QCDN Software for making digital negatives.
Palladium over Pigment Printing
On temporary hiatus. This process has a look all its own. You can read about this process on my Blog.
Tours
Iceland: Bill Schwab and I have led several tours to Iceland in recent years. Bill has been leading tours to Iceland for more than 10 years, but we’ve taken a different approach with these trips as we stayed in one location, Djúpavík, one of my very favorite places on the planet. As an added bonus, we have been gifted with some incredible displays of the aurora borealis, although that’s never a guarantee. To make a long story short, these trips have been a raving success.
In April 2018 Bill and I took a group of good people on a trip to the Faroe Islands. Think Iceland, but smaller and much less traveled. We had a successful trip back to the Faroes in September 2021! Go to Bill’s website for future adventures.