The Faculty of Visual Arts organized a workshop "Lumen Herbarium" at Petrović Castle on Saturday, September 28th at 12: 00h. 8 participants were selected to attend the workshop, and you can see photos from the workshop below:

The project aimed to revive the art of photography through a party on the amphitheater stage in Kruševac Park. The students had a very creative task - to make a Lumen herbarium. What is a Lumen print? Lumen shooting takes us back to the beginnings of camera-free photography in the 1830s when William Henry Fox Talbot made his "photogenic drawings." He placed the leaves on sensitized paper and exposed it to the sun. In doing so, he created a negative print or photogram from which positives can be made.

The participants collected several different varieties of leaves, plants, roots or grasses on site and converted each selected variety into a lumen print. Eventually, we collected all the samples and narrowed them down into one common, tangible lumen herbarium, which would subsequently be converted to digital form. The participants were also given a short lecture on the lumen photographic process as well as on the varieties of plants that were collected. In this way, the participants not only created, but through entertainment and education adopted and mastered new creative processes, which, not coincidentally, took place on the grand stage of King's Park.

Let there be light!