From Photography to Mixed Media on Textile

Black Box Residency Workshop: Kwasi Darko

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How can a photograph become a garment? In this two-part workshop, Ghanaian photographer and visual artist Kwasi Darko explores the relationship between photography, fashion, fabric and identity. The session opens with an artist talk on how clothing and textiles function as storytelling devices — rooted in Ghanaian and African contexts — followed by an open Q&A on ethical image-making and working with community narratives.

The second part is a hands-on cyanotype workshop, where participants transform their own digital photographs or family archives into blueprints printed directly onto fabric. You will learn the historic cyanotype process from start to finish: preparing light-sensitive emulsion, coating fabric, creating digital negatives and developing the final print using sunlight or UV light. No prior experience with cyanotype is required. Each participant leaves with at least one finished cyanotype print on fabric.

Please bring a digital photograph (high contrast recommended), a laptop if possible, and a USB with your image file.

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This workshop is part of NÉNÉ’s Black Box Residency at MOMO Festival 2026, in which she collaborates with Neal and Kwasi to explore textile as a language of identity, resistance and storytelling. Read more about the residency here.

The visit of Neal Davids and Kwasi Darko is made possible by the International Visitors Programme of the Nieuwe Instituut with support from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.