June’s exhibition features Michele Thompson’s images from her book, I Will Not Hurt Myself/I Will Not HurtOthers. The series combines traditional photography with the abstract, scraps of poems and text to talk about the psychology and emotion of being in the middle space; freed of personal history, apprehension for the future, and the distrust that the contentment of the now could all be an illusion, something to be snatched away at any moment.

Megan Sinclair returns to teach this one-day basics of film development and darkroom printing.

10 a.m.-1 p.m.: film developing

3 p.m.-6 p.m.: printing

You’ll receive guidance from Megan on best practices, and to help you troubleshoot common issues. Whether it’s perfecting the development process or fine-tuning your print’s contrast, they’ll be by your side to ensure you leave with the knowledge and skills to confidently use a darkroom on your own.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll have not only developed your own roll of black and white film, but also created a series of prints from your negatives.

The workshop provides 1 roll of film, and 10 sheets of photographic paper for developing and printing during class time. The workshop also includes 3 additional weeks of membership - so you can continue to come in and develop more film and make more prints (you will need to provide your own extra film and paper for lab time outside of classes).

Learn to hand-develop your own color negative C-41 film with Franklin FOTO’s temperature-controlled color processing kit. Then learn to scan your color negatives using our professional scanning equipment. Although the results of hand-processing color film are sometimes a little less than perfect (as compared with getting your film processed by machine at a color lab), the joy of doing it yourself by hand, and getting your negatives processed and scanned in a little less than 2 hours is nothing less than pure photographic alchemy!

 Once you complete this class, you will be certified to use our color processing equipment, chemistry and scanning equipment for all your future color negative processing needs (standard hourly / monthly rental rates apply – these rental rates also include full use of all B&W developing, printing and scanning equipment & chemistry as well!)