The new Photosynthesis community darkroom is open for you to bring a friend, an exposed roll of black and white 35mm film, or just your curiosity.

This space is for everyone: if you have no experience or heaps; if your first experience of the magic of analogue processes is part of the current resurgence of film, or if you want to return to hands-on photo practices you did last century. 

Our volunteers will be running hands-on demonstrations of the silver gelatin printing process with our enlargers, and running a sausage sizzle from 1pm for you to grab a hotdog and meet some of the people who want to be part of our emerging vibrant darkroom community.

This is part of our Boosted Campaign to offer a wide variety of equipment. This event is a chance to see what we currently have, see the potential to extend from 35mm to medium and large format film development and printing; to scan your own film, and think about how you could use a large format film camera in the Photosynthesis studio. Invision how you control every step of your artistic processes.

The darkroom is at the Climate Action Campus (formerly Avonside Girls High School) at 180 Avonside Drive, Avonside.

Enter and park from Cowlishaw St, walk to the side entrance of room B4 as shown on the map.