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Analog photography is alive — and so are we!
Bushwick Community Darkroom is Brooklyn’s community supported film lab, darkroom, and creative playground. Develop your film, take a class, show your work, and meet the folks who keep the fixer flowing.

Welcome to the Bushwick Community Darkroom

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You belong here!

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Welcome to the Bushwick Community Darkroom 〰️ You belong here! 〰️

Film Photography Classes and Darkroom Rentals in Brooklyn, NYC

  • Person holding a strip of photographic film over a lightbox.

    Developing & Scanning

    Drop off your film, get your shots back quick — fresh scans, clean negs, done by people who actually care. Film’s not dead, it’s just waiting to be developed.

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    Classes & Workshops

    New to film or want to level up? We’ve got workshops for total beginners, darkroom dabblers, and analog nerds alike. Come learn the magic — chemistry, printing, alt processes — from people who actually get it.

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  • Woman focusing image at enlarging station preparing to make a black and white print in the darkroom under the red light.

    Darkroom Rental

    Bring your negatives to life in our fully equipped darkroom. Rent by the hour, day, or month — it’s your playground. Safelights, enlargers, vibes: all ready and waiting.

    Make a reservation
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    Membership Program

    Want 24/7 access, member discounts, and a crew that gets your film obsession? Become a member and keep the lights low and the fixer flowing — anytime you want.

    Become a member
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Your work belongs here.

Make your work — then show it off. We host group shows, pop-ups, art fairs, and open calls all year long, giving you real chances to share your vision with the community. Bring your photos out of the darkroom and onto the walls — let people see what you’ve made.

Exterior of Bushwick Community Darkroom, a brick building with large glass windows and an orange sign, showing a darkroom setup with photographic equipment inside illuminated by warm lighting.
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About Us 

Bushwick Community Darkroom was born in 2011 when Lucia Rollow turned a tiny basement storage unit in her Bushwick loft building into a DIY film lab. Back then, film was expensive, labs were closing left and right, and if you wanted to develop your own work in Brooklyn — good luck. So Lucia built what she needed: a space for photographers to develop, print, and learn together.

Word spread. What started as a single enlarger in a basement grew into a collective of photographers, artists, teachers, and neighbors. Over the past decade, BCD has moved through a few different spaces, each one bigger and better than the last — always driven by the same mission: keep film accessible, affordable, and alive.

Today, our new space on Himrod St. is home to fully equipped darkrooms, rental stations, workshops for all skill levels, and a growing family of analog nerds who believe that photography is better when it’s shared. Come through — we’re always developing something.

Join us for our upcoming events!

 

Public Hours: Tues - Sat 12-8pm
All members get 24 hour access.

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