Workshops

All of Imagerie – Casa de Imagens' workshops explore alternative and tangible ways of creating images, from building cameras to printing using historical, alternative, or experimental processes.

Cyanotype prints and art supplies drying on a line in a professional printmaking studio and darkroom.

Off-site workshops

Activities developed off-site through partnerships with institutions (museums, associations, schools, etc.).

Private Workshops

Customized workshops, individual or group, run in Portuguese or English.

At the Studio

Regular training throughout the year.

Folha em Branco [Blank Page]

A program of workshops on other processes, led by guest artists.

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At the Studio

Black and white grainy film photography of a dark misty forest with evergreen trees.

Alternative Dreams I – Introduction to Alternative Photographic Processes

A technical workshop with four hands-on sessions, in which participants get their first taste of various alternative and historical photographic processes...

Alternative Dreams II – Project Development

This workshop, with four hands-on sessions, is meant to be a free space participants can use to develop their practice of printing images with alternative processes, aiming toward the production of a small project...

October 10 and 17 2026

October 24 and 31 2026

Workshop / Alternative Photographic Processes

Workshop / Project Development

Jardim Azul – Anna Atkins and the Garden - Cyanotype workshop

In this workshop, participants will wander through Jardim da Estrela, then create a small album of the objects they find, fixing their outlines through cyanotype as a small tribute to the visionary work of Anna Atkins.

Natureza [Foto]Sensível – Photography and Botany - alternative processes workshop

By the end of the workshop, participants will have created a body of work reflecting the deep, intrinsic, and reciprocal connections between Author, (natural) Matter, and Creation.

September 12 2026

September 20 and 27 2026

Workshop / Cyanotype

Workshop / Photography and Botany

A light brown horse grazing in a grassy field with a grainy, tricolor cyanotype workshop

A vintage-style DIY pinhole camera made from cardboard and recycled materials

Para Além do Azul – Tri-Colour Cyanotype Workshop

One of the great potentials of cyanotype is the possibility of exploring it plastically through simple, accessible chemical substances, expanding it beyond shades of blue.

TOSCA – Pinhole Photography + Film Development Workshop

In this workshop, participants build and customize their own TOSCA, and explore its technical and plastic (material/aesthetic) qualities. This experience is also intended to be an encouragement toward creative exploration in the construction of handmade/artisanal cameras...

August 17-20 2026

To be announced

Workshop / Cyanotype / Trichrome

Workshop / Pinhole / B&W Development

Analog Photography Workshop – 24 Hours

From Camera to Print

Rediscovering analog photography today is an experience that can go far beyond nostalgia and what it meant to shoot before digital cameras. Analog photography lets us explore extraordinary visual possibilities, and its apparent limitations are, in reality, an almost infinite range of new possibilities.

Personalized training for 1 or 2 participants

Workshop / Analog Photography / Black and White