Location: Brunswick, VIC
Completed: 2025.02
Site: Manual Photo Processing Darkroom
Brief: Create a light-sealed darkroom for photo developing

Previously an open-plan real estate office, we were employed to create a modern yet traditional photo processing darkroom. As practised in their Fitzroy location, Brunswick Darkroom was to use the RA-4 process of colour printing, a traditional method brought to market in the mid-1940’s.

The open space was divided to create a front of house area and fully light-sealed darkroom with conventional door access alongside more sight-specific access. The second entry being a specialised revolving door to allow zero light infiltration. Works to the site included: installation of full-height parttion walls, non-slip flooring, conventional and red lights with additional power and plumbing outlets. A bespoke concrete proccessing bath was cast off-site and installed with millimetre precision on 6 concrete posts incorporation a storage shelf.

One of our more unique projects, the site now helps to continue this age-old practice.