Advanced Platinum Printing

Overview

Shave years off the learning curve of advancing your practice of Platinum Printing with this exceptional workshop taught by a master with decades of experience.

WINTER 2026 - February 25 - 28
This four-day workshop is designed for students who already have experience with platinum/palladium printing and making digital negatives. Kerik Kouklis brings his 35+ years of printing and 25+ years of teaching experience to the full benefit of participants in this immersive workshop. You will learn to print on a variety of unusual papers including vellums, gampis and others. You will also learn to combine palladium printing with inkjet printing to create colorized palladium prints that are reminiscent of hand-colored black and white photographs. We will also review the making of digital negatives. This workshop is held in what is arguably the most beautiful and least crowded season in the park.

Currently the QCDN software by Richard Boutwell and Epson printers is only available for the MAC Operating System.

Workshop Details

Currently the QCDN software by Richard Boutwell and Epson printers is only available for the MAC Operating System.

About the Instructor

Kerik Kouklis is a fine art and documentary photographer who has been involved in creating hand-made photographs since age twelve when his father set up a darkroom in the family’s basement. Born and reared in California with a background in music and geology, Kerik combines a contemporary eye when utilizing 19th, 20th and 21st Century processes to produce work that is uniquely his own. He has used these processes to create his work since 1990 and has been teaching workshops since 1997, both in his home studio and at various locations around the US, Canada and the UK.

Kerik was the recipient of the 2016 Yosemite Renaissance Artist in Residency. And in 2017 Kerik began working with color by combining inkjet pigments in his palladium printing. These prints are reminiscent of hand-colored photographs from the late 1800’s. Then in 2019 Kerik began to learned the very first photographic process called the daguerreotype. He is still honing his skills in this difficult but uniquely beautiful process. Also in 2019, Kerik became the President of the Board of Directors for the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California.

In recent years Kerik’s photographic travels have taken him to Iceland, Scotland, Norway, the Galapagos, Mongolia and Japan. He has adopted the use of a drone, where permitted, to make aerial photographs during these travels. Kerik has completed his first documentary short film “Mongolia in Winter'' and is now working on a documentary film about an Antarctic expedition that occurred in 1958.

Kerik’s work is currently represented in California by Oficino Uno in Carmel and the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite where he has been teaching hand-made photographic techniques since 2000. His prints are held in private and corporate collections in North America and Europe as well as the Museum of Fine Art, Houston and the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Newcastle, Pennsylvania. In 2019 Kerik became the President of the Board of Directors for the Viewpoint Photographic Art Center in Sacramento, California.

Workshop FAQ

Find answers to your questions about our Photography Workshops in our FAQ. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you need additional help. You can reach us by email at photoed@anseladams.com or by phone (650) 692-3495.

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Physical Limitations

This workshop may involve some walking and hiking around uneven, hilly, and rocky locations that may present a challenge to some attendees. The gallery workshop team requests your individual judgment to abstain from workshop activities that may be beyond your capabilities.

Although the workshop instructors will try to accommodate all attendees, please be advised that the gallery relies on your abstinence should you feel that a site location may not be safe for you.

Cancellation Policy

The Ansel Adams Gallery Multiple Day Workshop Cancellation Policy: 

We rely on your confirmed attendance to make important arrangements for the workshop. If you need to cancel, please inform a gallery representative in writing via email no fewer than 60 days prior to the first day of your scheduled workshop for a partial refund of your tuition that reflects the 50% non-refundable charge. Refunds cannot be made for cancellations initiated within 60 days of the first day of the scheduled workshop, or for no-shows, for any reason. 

If you are concerned with this possibility of cancellation, please consider purchasing travel insurance.

Workshop registration is NOT transferable.

In the extremely rare event that The Ansel Adams Gallery needs to cancel a workshop, the gallery will refund your full tuition. However, The Ansel Adams Gallery will not be responsible for non-refundable airline tickets, car rental charges, lodging reservations, or any other expense outside of the workshop tuition. 

Lodging reservations made through Yosemite Hospitality - Aramark are fully refundable 14 days in advance of the first day of check in. 

It is recommended not to purchase airline tickets or make non-refundable deposits on lodging that cannot be canceled 14 days prior to the initiation of the workshop event. 

The Ansel Adams Gallery highly recommends travel insurance to help with an unfortunate travel event.