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Cyanotype Animation Workshop

2026

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Frame-by-frame animation with artisanal cyanotype printing, using inverted frames printed on plastic transparencies, as well as direct botanical contact prints.

The workshop was taught collectively by Casa Fósfora and Espora Taller, and led by José Tomás Urrutia, Nadiela Trinidad Plass and Niles Atallah, together with Matías Yunge, with film and animation students from Universidad Diego Portales.

Casa Fósfora, Bellavista, Santiago, Chile, October 2026.

Cyanotype frames hanging in front of the wall of masks at Casa Fósfora
Botanical cyanotype print in the wash tray
Exposure box with inverted frames printed on transparencies
Cyanotypes drying on a line
Introducing the workshop at Casa Fósfora
Students at the start of the workshop
Students around the worktable
Notebook of cyanotype toning tests
Showing the toning test notebook
Cyanotype portraits toned with coffee, mate, tea and more
Print tests in a sample book
Test chart in a sample book
Students looking through a test book
Brushing on the light-sensitive emulsion
Coated sheets drying on a line
Foil-lined exposure box
Setting up an exposure in the foil-lined box
Washing exposed frames
Students at the wash table
Washing a botanical print
Fern print in the wash tray
Wash trays with botanical prints
Botanical prints in the wash
Leaf print in the wash tray
A freshly developed botanical print
Plants arranged on coated paper before exposure
Pressed flowers on coated paper
Flowers and roots on coated paper in the courtyard
Cyanotypes drying
Botanical cyanotypes hanging
Cyanotypes hanging in the workroom
Cyanotype frames by the wall of masks
Strips of frames hanging in the mask room
Cyanotype frames hanging in the mask room
The mask room with the frames hanging
Cyanotype frames among the masks at Casa Fósfora
Prints exposing in the sun in the courtyard
Prints in the sun on stools in the courtyard
One of the Casa Fósfora dogs