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Brown Photo Club

What is the Brown Photo Club?

The Brown club is a resource for student photographers. We provide access to equipment, information and other students with a similar artistic interest.

How do you join the photo club?

  1. Email Photo@brown.edu to sign up for the Photo Listserv.
  2. Go to the student activities office in Faunce (Next to the Upper Blue Room) and pay 25.00 dollars for the semester.
  3. Bring your receipt from the Student Acitivities Office to Sheila Kramer at the Sarah Doyle Women's Center.
  4. You can now use all of the photo club facilities.
  5. You can trade your school ID for a key at the Student Activities Office in Faunce or, after hours, at the glass cubicle near The Campus Market. At Sarah Doyle, go to the front desk or talk to Sheila Kramer.
  6. Contact Drew_Durbin@brown.edu to check out the fancy equipment (strobe lights, hot lights, light meter etc.)

What do you get access to?

The Brown Photo Club manages two new student Darkrooms, one in Faunce and one in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center. Each darkroom is equipped with two Saunders variable contrast enlargers with 4x5 capacity, and a 16x20 archival print washer. We provide chemicals.

Faunce Darkroom: Room 320


The darkroom in Faunce can be print both color and B&W, and is equipped with a Durst color processing system (dry to dry). Faunce also has a negative developing room, equipped with reels, tanks, archival negative washers and an industrial negative drier. Hours: Monday - Sunday, 8:30am - 1am

Sarah Doyle Darkroom: Corner of Brown and Benevolent Street
The Sarah Doyle darkroom is for printing B&W only. The work room in the Sarah Doyle has a 16x20 heat press and a matt cutter. Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm

Equipment Check out:
You can also check out a lowel tungsten light kit (3 lights), a visatec strobe light kit (3 lights) and a copy slide stand. Email Drew_Durbin@brown.edu.

Location:

Faunce Darkroom (B&W, Color, Negative Processing): Room 320
Sarah Doyle Darkroom (B&W, Matting & Mounting, Equipment Checkout)

What do you need?

You have to bring your own paper and film.
You need prior experience with darkrooms or equipment.

The Photo Listserv

What is a Listserv?
The List Serve is a big list of emails. Type photo@listserv.brown.edu and everyone interested in photography on campus will get your email.

How to sign up to get emails from the Listserv
Email Photo@brown.edu and write "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject.

How to send an email to the Listserv

  1. Send an email to photo@listserv.brown.edu.
  2. Write something interesting or informative.
  3. Press send.

What you hear about through the List Serve?

  • photo club meetings and events
  • gallery openings
  • job advertisements for student photographers
  • anything else you want to let us know about

Who to contact with questions, issues or admirations?

Equipment Checkout or general questions
Drew_Durbin@brown.edu

Faunce Darkroom
Drew_Durbin@brown.edu

Sarah Doyle Darkroom
sd_darkroom@Brown.edu
Listserv
photo@brown.edu

Sarah Doyle Women's Center
401.863.1781

Student Activities Office
401.863.2341

Workshops:

The photo club can provide a network between students interested in photography. We can learn from each other. If you want to teach a workshop, announce it on the listserv. After you teach a workshop, the next semester is free (no 25 dollar fee). If you hear about a workshop through the Listserv, go and listen and learn.

Paper and Pixel

Photo journal published every semester. Drop-boxes for submissions are located in the hall outside the SAO in Faunce, Faunce Darkroom (Room 320), and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Darkroom. Also, digital submissions may be emailed to paperandpixel@gmail.com