Darkroom Features

William Laven Photography offers a state-of-the-art darkroom for B&W, color, and Pt/Pd printing. The darkroom and work area encompass 625 ft² in a contemporary Japanese-style home with available kitchen and two Japanese gardens with ponds. It is located on Potrero Hill in San Francisco with easy access from both Hwy 101 and Hwy 280. (Click HERE for a map)

Darkroom equipment includes a 4x5 color enlarger, 8x10 variable contrast B&W enlarger, several UV printers (for Pt/Pd) up to 20x24", two Jobo CPP-2's for processing all film and print materials to 20x24", 6' and 8' sinks, double-stage filtered/tempered water, two archival washers and many fiberglass drying screens, densitometer, light tables and a well stocked library.

Group Tutorials in the darkroom

Occasionally, students wish to organize group tutorials which the darkroom/classroom can accomodate. Pt/Pd group tutorials with 6 students can easily be accomodated. The Pt/Pd printing area, wet- and dry-darkroom are all separate, allowing students to work independently of each other. For example, several students might be exposing and printing Pt/Pd prints while another processes film and another makes enlarged negatives. The darkroom/classroom were designed specifically as teaching spaces.