Studios

Dark Room and Photography Studio

Location: List 3rd floor

The photography lab is located on the third floor of the List Art Center. Hours vary throughout the semester. The Lab is closed on Friday night and all day Saturday. The lab is available only to those students presently enrolled in photo classes, at Brown University, or by permission of the professor.

The lab consists of three areas, the dark room, film loading room (a small room to put film onto reels), and the main space to prepare film and finalize presentation. The equipment available is standard for most photography labs to allow for processing, developing, and print presentation. There are ten enlarging stations, two Macintosh computers with flatbed scanners (for the production of digital contact sheets of processed film), a dry mounting press, and film processing stations among other things.

Photography courses are small with no more than 15 students per class so that students can maximize their time in the lab. The courses are taught as a combination of lecture, critique, technical demonstration, and small group film and print processing.

Typically, students shoot film on 35mm cameras they provide, load the film onto a reel, develop it in the classroom area, and print it in the darkroom on the enlargers. The photo lab is capable of prints up to 16 X 20. If desired, the student can then take the photograph and add display features such as mounting or matting. The Photography Lab has a small selection of cameras, tripods, light meters, and other essential equipment, available for student checkout.