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Mini-Workshop

Brewing Images: An Introduction to Film Soup

Daura Campos

Dates: Sunday, Sept 13, 2026

Time: 12–1:30pm (ET)

Sessions: 1

Fee: $50

In this 90-minute mini-workshop, you’ll get an introduction to “film soup” — an alternative film process where chance, chemistry, and material intervention become active collaborators in the photographic process. Drawing from her own artistic practice, Daura explores film soup as an experimental analogue process in which everyday ingredients and organic materials transform the film, producing unexpected colors, textures, and distortions while embracing unpredictability, imperfection, and the expressive potential of analogue photography. Designed for photographers, artists, and curious beginners alike, the workshop invites participants to rethink the photographic negative as a mutable, expressive surface.

Mini-Workshops may have higher enrollment than our other classes.

Daura and Samanta were a winning tag team combination of enthusiasm, encouragement about everyone’s work, brainstorming the outcomes of assignments and providing real-time solutions, superb materials, and being well-organized in their presentation. I could go on and on, but I can offer no higher compliment than that they are pros at teaching and sharing.

—Kevin (New Jersey)

Daura and Samanta did a wonderful job facilitating this class — they were super prepared for each class and gave us really helpful resources and video tutorials that I referred to multiple times when trying out assignments. I enjoyed learning other methods of alternative processes (although cyanotype is still my favorite).

—Tina (New Orleans)

Daura and Samantha have mastered the not-so-easy task of teaching a class in craft processes very well. They were a good team and guided us through the different processes of cameraless photography with a lot of enthusiasm, youthful drive, and excitement. The documents we received were excellent. Both of them were also very helpful and guided our first steps in a benevolent manner. I really enjoyed the course, I had a lot of fun trying out the different methods, and the results are impressive.

—Barbara (Zurich)

Daura Campos

Daura Campos is an artist and educator based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Through experimental techniques, her work investigates the dynamics of perception, interpretation, and memory, treating photographic film and paper as active collaborators in image-making.

Her work has been exhibited at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), Rotterdam Photo, MK Gallery, Pinakothek der Moderne, Open Eye Gallery, Gallery 44, Museo de Arte de Pereira, and Experimental Photo Festival. She has been recognized by the 2025 Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA), the 2024-2025 International Photography Awards (IPA), and the 2024-2025 Analog Sparks International Film Photography Awards.

She has led courses, workshops, and lectures at various cultural organizations, including the Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS), Festival de Arte Analógica de São Paulo (FAASP), Espaço Força e Luz, StrudelmediaLive, Santa Fe Workshops, Alternative Processes, and The Alternative Art School.

Campos is the Communications and Digital Media Manager of the Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) and holds a Bachelor of Social Communication, Film and Media from PUC Minas.

Daura teaches alternative processes for StrudelmediaLive.

dauracampos.com

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