New Images from Old: Film Negative Interventions

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New Images from Old: Film Negative Interventions

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Hand‑altering film negatives can be an exciting way to create new work — let’s explore together experimental ways of intervening and working with analog film negatives, either from your own archive or that others have thrown out. We’ll engage with techniques such as bleaching, painting, collage, and alternative processes that transform negatives and slides into something new. Through guided exercises, weekly prompts, adaptations, and feedback that suit each student’s work, we’ll nurture within you a multidisciplinary approach to photography. This class is suited for everyone interested in re-imagining film photography through artisanal, slow, and accessible methods, utilizing materials that already exist, such as found images, discarded negatives — negatives that people didn’t pick up from labs or slides from flea markets — or your own personal archives.

Please note: Students will receive a list of easy-to-obtain materials that you’ll need for the class when you register.

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 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)

I was happy to have discovered StrudelmediaLive and the Cameraless Photography class with Daura and Samanta! Thank you both for the enthusiasm, knowledge, and hard work you put into the class. I appreciated the materials you put together for each lesson — they were really thorough and looked wonderful — and that you posted them quickly. Thank you also for your observations and insights that you shared with each of us based on our individual styles and concepts. I was happy to have been in the class and expand on my knowledge of cameraless processes. You make a good team! If you teach another class or have exhibitions, please let me know.

—Marta (US)

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.

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Samanta Ortega

Samanta Ortega is a Brazilian artist, educator, and researcher working with expanded photography, eco-conscious photochemistry, and found archive. Creating images, narrative compositions, and interventions that consider how human and non-human beings collaborate, her multidisciplinary practice merges visual, plastic, and filmic arts with handicraft and darkroom techniques. She understands experimentalism as an ethical and aesthetic commitment in which different media and processes converge, and errors, decay, destruction, and remixes are valued agents of change that keep images alive.

In 2022, she created Alquimia Fotográfica, a public pedagogy initiative that hosts her research in ecology and alternative processes in the form of essays and independent publications. As an educator, she offers classes, talks, and participates in exhibits in several Brazilian artist-led spaces, analog photography and cinema festivals, and institutions including the Brazilian National Archive, São Paulo’s Historical Archive, IMS-Rio, SESC, and SESI. As well as contributing to independent projects, seminars, and presentations as a consultant and production assistant, Samanta was part of the jury and selection committees in the Inflamável-Super 8 and 16mm Film Festival (2024), Derli Barroso Prize (2025), and Prix Photo (2024–2026).

Samanta teaches alternative processes for StrudelmediaLive.

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