The Photographic Arts Lab offers a fully outfitted photographic facility for the beginning, amateur, and professional photographer to practice the art of photography. We have dedicated spaces for:
- Darkroom film developing and printing
- Digital editing, scanning, and printing
- Mat cutting
- Lighting with strobes and continuous lights
- Alternative process darkroom
This space for Learning and Creating at Art Intersection nourishes the appetite of artists exploring photographic processes spanning three centuries.
- Nineteenth century print-making, known as alternative photographic processes
- Twentieth century gelatin-silver (black and white) film and prints
- Today’s twenty-first century digital photography, scanning, and printing
We can transform any digital image to a darkroom print, thus interconnecting traditional and contemporary techniques and making them timeless.
All areas of the Photographic Arts Lab are available for public rental after a mandatory orientation session. To learn more about our lab rental rates, click here.
Digital Lab
From digital or film capture to print, our digital lab offers the tools and equipment for the photographer to use modern digital equipment to create their images. With three large format photographic printers, artists can make museum-quality prints up to forty-four inches. A special focus of this lab is to create digital negatives for black and white and alternative photographic process printing. We teach with the latest software tools available for digital editing and production.
- Ten calibrated iMacs with 2-button mice and full keyboards
- Adobe Creative Cloud Photoshop and Lightroom
- Epson 9900 44″ printer
- Epson 4880 17″ printer
- Epson P800 17″ printer
- Epson 750 flatbed scanner with carriers for up to 8″x10″ negatives
- Nikon Coolscan 9000ED film scanner
Darkroom Labs
Black and white film developing and print-making live and thrive at Art Intersection. Here the photographer can develop and print using the gelatin silver process in two custom built darkrooms.
- Enlargers capable of enlarging 35mm – 8″ x 10″ negatives
- One Aristo VCL4500 variable contrast cold head enlarger
- One Beseler 810 cold head enlarger
- One Omega Super Chromega D color head enlarger
- Three Beseler MX45 enlargers
- One 8″ x 10″ Durst enlarger
- One 12′ x 55″ peninsula sink with ventilation hood
- Trays for printing up to 20″ x 24″ prints
- Two archival print washers
- Basic chemistry provided
Black and White Film Developing Darkroom
- One 8′ x 3′ sink with ventilation hood
- Water chiller for constant 68 deg F water
- Film drying cabinet with filtered air
- Canisters for 35mm, 120/220mm, and 4″ x 5″ film
- Trays for 4″ x 5″ – 8″ x 10″ sheet film
- Jobo processor for 4″ x 5″ and 8″ x 10″ sheet film
- Basic chemistry provided
Alternative Photographic Process Lab
Our commitment to alternative photographic processes shows in the custom built Alt Process Lab. This dedicated space provides the necessary equipment for coating, exposing and developing hand-coated emulsion processes such as cyanotype, kallitype, platinum, palladium, gum bichromate, and wet plate collodion.
- Two 6′ x 30″ sinks with ventilation hood
- Nuarc 1000 Watt desktop exposure unit
- Nuarc FT32V2, 2000 Watt flip-top exposure unit
- UV fluorescent light exposure box that holds the contact print frames
- Separate coating room with scales and mixer
- Six 11″ x 17″ contact print frames for printing in the Arizona sun
- Chemistry not included
Matting and Mounting
- Two 60″ mat cutters
- One 60″ paper trimmer
- Two 30″ mat cutters
- 24″ x 36″ dry mount press
Lighting Studio
- Studio space, 12’W x 20’D x 10’H
- Multiple dedicated power outlets
- Four Alien Bee studio strobes with wireless remotes
- Selection of soft boxes: square – rectangular – octagon
- Four CFL continuous lights with octagon soft boxes
- Two C-Stands with grip arms
- 9′ wide seamless, roll backgrounds: white – gray – black
- 8′ camera stand
- 4′ x 7′ table for table top work