Saturday Workshop: Photo Lab for Kids

24.01.2026 2 – 4:30 p.m.
28.02.2026 2 – 4:30 p.m.
21.03.2026 2 – 4:30 p.m.
18.04.2026 2 – 4:30 p.m.
16.05.2026 2 – 4:30 p.m.

Foto Forum Photo Lab for Kids – Let’s make photo!
Workshops for children and teenagers to explore the world through images

The project offers a cycle of five workshops (one Saturday per month, from November to March) dedicated to discovering photography and the image as a space of play, invention, and creativity. Through different techniques – historical, experimental, and contemporary – participants explore the magic of light and transform simple materials into surprising images.
Each session is hands-on and participatory, designed to stimulate imagination and manual skills. The programme will conclude with a collective exhibition at Foto Forum, showcasing the children’s work to their families and the public.

1. Urban Herbarium – Cyanotype
Children collect natural materials from the city and the park, turning them into protagonists of their photographic experiments. On cyanotype-coated paper, they learn how images are formed and fixed using sunlight, discovering photography through light and shadow. Each participant creates a personalised herbarium in the form of a small book or leporello.

2. Light Posters – Xerography
Participants creatively use a printer to generate surprising images. Transparent objects, negatives, and various materials are combined to produce original posters, encouraging experimentation with layering, colour, and composition.

3. Shadow Profiles – Silhouette Printing / Darkroom
Inspired by Duchamp’s profile self-portrait and the story of Pliny the Elder, children create their own silhouettes. Working in pairs, they trace and cut out the projected shadow of a partner, using the shape as a stencil for making positive and negative prints in the darkroom. This workshop fosters observation and creativity through light and shadow.

4. Wearable Camera
Participants build a wearable photographic device that allows them to see the world from unusual angles — upside down, like inside a real camera. The workshop encourages play, experimentation, and curiosity.

5. Rayograms
Inspired by Man Ray, children make experimental off-camera images by placing everyday and natural objects on light-sensitive paper, creating unique photographic impressions.

Age: 7–14
Duration: 2.5 hours
Costs: 20 Euro / 1 Workshop
Location: Gallery Foto Forum + outdoor area
Participants: 4–13