About
A centre for practicing analogue and other alternative
photography processes. Darkroom 34 offers a space for
professionals, amateurs and students to practice and
learn the art and craft of analogue film photography.
While the world has plummeted us to the age of AI dominated
photo sensors, the thirst for fine art and learning keeps
driving everyone to get back to a process that is more
magical and requires mastering the basics of photography
that has evolved over the last century and half.
Located in Siliguri, Darkroom 34 users have the unique
opportunity to access the valleys of the Himalayas and
the rain forests of the picturesque Dooars of North Bengal
giving every photographer the chance to capture breathtakingly
beautiful landscape. The area is also a potboiler of numerous
cultures- Nepali, Bengali, Lepcha, Koch and many such, which gives
the photographer the chance to render fascinating portraits and village scape.
Darkroom 34 offers cutting edge analogue apparatus making it a space
that is one of its kind in the global south. The studio can generate
workflow for all forms of analogue photography processes including
alternative photographs. Alongside the traditional darkroom enlarger
that is capable of printing large format negatives, Darkroom 34 also
offers state of art negative digitisation scanning process. The studio
space is also equipped with a ultra-violet burner to create alternate
photographs like Cyanotypes, Kallitypes and Platinum/ Palladium prints.
People associated with Darkroom 34 have spent a significant portion of
their life in practicing different art forms including photography.
Darkroom 34 remains a space for continuous practice and creation of
photographs using all formats of analogue photography.
Darkroom 34
