BERLINER STRASSE

Community Darkroom

Berliner Strasse Lab is a community darkroom: a place to work professionally with analogue photography and to learn it.

A community darkroom combines a lab, an education programme and a community. It is open to visitors: some come to work, others to watch, learn and talk. The lab is shared, so you book time and use it.

How to book ↓Membership

Why a community darkroom

  • Supporting and developing analogue photography as a professional practice, building a local community
  • Demystifying analogue processes: it’s not magic that nobody understands, but processes anyone can learn
  • A place for slow, careful work with photography
  • A place to go through mistakes together and learn from each other
  • A place to grow professionally: print work for exhibitions, sell prints through the gallery, swap prints with other members of the community

Capabilities

  • Development: colour processes (C-41, ECN2), black-and-white, colour slide
  • Printing: colour and black-and-white, 135 and 120 formats
  • Lith printing
  • Ambrotype
  • Scanning: 135 and 120 film, prints, Polaroids and more

For any process you can book a guide: we show and explain everything and stay with you the whole time, so your results come out right.

Equipment →

Hours and booking

Opening hours:
Wednesday – Sunday, 14:00–20:00
35 Virmenska St, Lviv. Ring the bell at the gate.

To book a day and time, message us on Instagram: @berliner.strasse.lab

If you have questions, message us on Instagram or call +380634497858.

When booking, tell us:

  • What you need: development, printing or scanning
  • For development: which films and how many
  • Whether you want a guide to teach you, show you everything and oversee the whole process
  • The date and time you’d like

Learning

Workshops

Darkroom membership

As many hours in the lab as you need for a month, with the equipment and access to the photo studio included.