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A centre for photography in the department of the Tarn

Located in a former winegrower’s house in the Château de l’Hom district of Gaillac, the Centre is dedicated to the transmission of photographic techniques. It is equipped with a complete digital workspace and a high quality laboratory for traditional developing and printing, thus permitting photographers to explore the numerous relationships between different kinds of techniques. Director Dominique Laugé wishes to emphasize the concrete aspects of the art and to experiment at the juncture of its various applications.

The Centre has been designed to enable the diffusion of photographic art form. It offers courses and workshops, as well as encounters with recognized photographers during masterclasses. In order to facilitate exchanges, a separate room has been allocated for shared meals. In its elegant vaulted hall, exhibitions, conferences and projections can be organized, as well as other activities related to photography and cinematography.

Each photographic style deserves a specific kind of printing. The production of prints followed by their analysis facilitates the emerging – or confirmation – of a personal style with the purpose,
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DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION THROUGH PRINTING
DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION THROUGH PRINTING
With traditional black&white photography, the zone system permits the control of exposure and development so as to obtain a print of the best possible quality. In an interview given to Playboy
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Zone system for digital photography
Zone system for digital photography
The development of digital precision printing allows experimentation that could not have been dreamt of a few years ago. This is the reason why the Centre for photography offers a workshop on the
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Piezo Pro, Piezo DN and platinum palladium
Piezo Pro, Piezo DN and platinum palladium
For connoisseurs of traditional photography, the final print is paramount in the rendering of a picture by the enlargement of negatives varying from 35mm to 8x10’’. Numerous technical factors such
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Traditional black&white printing
Traditional black&white printing
Ansel Adams’s zone system enables the photographer to determine the correct exposure as well as the adjustment of contrast on the final print. This method of exposure and film development
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Zone system
Zone system
Knowing how to control the numerous industrial papers on the market to obtain the best possible results for exhibition prints is important. But it is also very interesting for a photographer to
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DIGITAL COLOUR PRINTING
DIGITAL COLOUR PRINTING
The production of digital negatives Epson K3 printing process makes it possible to obtain big format negatives adapted to contact printing with any alternative method. Platine-palladium printing is
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Initiation pt-pd, Van Dyke and cyanotype
Initiation pt-pd, Van Dyke and cyanotype
Everything you want to know about traditional black&white photography and darkroom magic : exposing, developing and printing. It is not necessary to be familiar with photography to gain benefit
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Black&white film photography
Black&white film photography
Traditional large format photography has always been meant to give the best quality for architecture, landscape, still lifes and portrait. However, the use of a view camera needs a specific training
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Large Format
Large Format
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A centre for photography in the department of the Tarn

Located in a former winegrower’s house in the Château de l’Hom district of Gaillac, the Centre is dedicated to the transmission of photographic techniques. It is equipped with a complete digital workspace and a high quality laboratory for traditional developing and printing, thus permitting photographers to explore the numerous relationships between different kinds of techniques. Director Dominique Laugé wishes to emphasize the concrete aspects of the art and to experiment at the juncture of its various applications.

The Centre has been designed to enable the diffusion of photographic art form. It offers courses and workshops, as well as encounters with recognized photographers during masterclasses. In order to facilitate exchanges, a separate room has been allocated for shared meals. In its elegant vaulted hall, exhibitions, conferences and projections can be organized, as well as other activities related to photography and cinematography.

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