Norwich Community Darkroom

If you’d like to find your own way into the real magic of the black & white medium, you might find PRINTING-only sessions in the darkroom an ideal entry point from which everything else flows. If you’re an absolute beginner, a curious artist, or if you have old family negs to make prints from, then this is the place for you.

Bring your black & white negatives of any age or era, to your first session - or ask to learn photogramming, double exposure, contact prints, or other cameraless/alt processes. We’ll also be developing learning exercises to accompany each unique enlarger, and offer users independent learning opportunities, as well as in-person expert tutoring onsite if required.

8 Black & White enlargers using Multigrade/Variable Contrast paper are revved-up and running again, in Dark Mode public darkroom, Upper Goat Lane, in the heart of Norwich Lanes. All sessions are staffed and supervised by a member of the darkroom team. We might even have fruit tea refreshments, and chilled music playing in our comfortable lobby seated area - but it would only be Khruangbin, Keith Jarrett, or Mozart. You think I’m joking? Come along and find out.

We’re open all day Saturday, all day Monday, plus Wednesday evenings, bookings taken online, in advance

Sessions are 3 hours am or pm, (Saturday & Monday only) or Wednesday evenings (6.00pm - 9.00pm)

or all day (2 × 3hr sessions). Hold on, here’s our current pricing….

Flying Solo 1 person booking £45 (3hr am/pm) or £65 (day)

Print with a Friend 2 person booking £70 (3hr am/pm) or £95 (day)

Three is Not a Crowd 3 person booking £85 (3hr am/pm) or £95 (day)

How to Book: use our acuity:scheduling panel ~ keep scrolling :-)……

Printing is more sociable - and much cheaper - if you bring friend(s) Sure it’s fun for one, but great value for 2, or 3, or (max) 4 ~ You’ll get a great group discount \O/ making B&W printing possible for just over a £5er per hr/per person

You’ll also get a free photo paper pack for your first session, which also includes free inductions for any group members or friends you book and bring, and free darkroom membership for you and your friends for your first year. All sessions are 18yrs-&-over & supervised in a clean, temperature-stable & ventilated space, ensuring you work in comfort.

• If you don’t see your preferred date/time appear on the scheduling system, it will be because the sessions for this date/time are already booked, and we don’t like to over-book. ‍ ‍

All chemicals and developing solutions are responsibly-sourced, environmentally-friendly, and disposed of safely. Processing and printing solutions are provided free of charge for any and every community darkroom session, and monitored by our community darkroom team. Relax, enjoy the magic, and welcome to the darkroom community \O/