We try to cover the whole spectrum so that anyone, from someone who just picked up a disposable camera to someone that has been shooting 4x5 for years can have their needs met. What are the services you offer? Is one more popular than others? Sometimes you want to see what other photographers are doing and what they have to say about your work and sometimes you don’t and those opportunities for feedback should arise organically based on people sharing a work space and slowly observing each others artistic evolution over a period of years, not weeks or months and certainly not in an environment where one person is being paid to “critique” another person's portfolio after just a few minutes of viewing. I didn’t see a space in New York that was just a space you as an analog photographer could go and either work on your own work or just interact with other like minded people. Times were bleak in 2010 and I wanted to build a space where people could gather and figure out what our next steps needed to be to survive as artists and photographers. I also sensed a demand from my art school peers, a sort of sense of “What's next? Where do we go?” But also my desire for a space where I could work alongside people without necessarily working with or for those people. "I haven’t been without darkroom access for more than a year since." We spoke to Lucia about the journey, challenges, and services that the Bushwick Community Darkroom offers. "That was basically the end of it for me," she says. At 12 years old, after taking an intro to Black White Photo Class, she was hooked. Lucia's own journey with analog started when she was around 5 years old with a 110 camera. What started with as a few trays and counters, became a DIY darkroom in a closet in the basement of a loft in 2011, and finally a fully serviced lab and studio in 2015 in a 4,000 squarefeet warehouse in Bushwick that today became a reference in New York's analog community. "I didn’t see a space in New York that was just a space you as an analog photographer could go and either work on your own work or just interact with other like minded people." It's been 10 years since Lucia and her boyfriend crowdfunded what later became the "Bushwick Community Darkroom". Necessity is the mother of invention, so when Lucia Rollow graduated from college looking for a space where the artistic community could gather and didn't find one, she simply created one. Darkrooms and Film Labs: Bushwick Community Darkroom 10 Share Tweet
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