New Images from Old: Film Negative Interventions
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.
She has exhibited at Cluster London, UK (2025); CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, South Korea (2024); Rotterdam Photo, the Netherlands (2024); MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK (2024); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2023); Museo de Arte de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia (2022); Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2022); Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada (2022); and Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada (2022).
Her work has been recognized by several awards, including the Honorable Mention of the Tokyo International Foto Awards (2025), the Official Selection of the International Photography Awards (2025; 2024), and the Analog Sparks Awards, where she received 1st place in the Fine Art/Experimental category (2025) and 2nd place in the Technical category (2024).
Daura received her bachelor’s degree in Film and Media Studies from PUC Minas (Brazil) in 2024. She works as an independent artist and researcher and continues to expand her practice as an art educator, leading courses and workshops, both in-person and online, across Brazil and internationally.
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Samanta Ortega is an artist, educator ,and researcher from São Paulo, Brazil, whose work threads through the relationships between nature, humanities, and image-making as world-making. Her practices aim to expand what can be understood as photography by bringing together photochemistry with artisanal and ecological techniques, along with archival re-imagining and found footage — all grounded in the commitment to the political role of images.
She dedicates her practice to public pedagogy through the project Alquimia Fotográfica, offering classes, talks, and exhibitions of her artwork in several Brazilian artist-led spaces, analog photography and cinema festivals, and cultural 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 (2024), and Prix Photo AF (2024/2025).
