dark rooms

Film processing chambers

Dark rooms are spaces with little or no light.

A darkroom (one word) is specifically a photographer's workspace kept dark for developing film and printing photographs, using only safe red light that won't expose light-sensitive materials.

The plural dark rooms more often refers simply to rooms that are unlit: The children were afraid of dark rooms.

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photo paper · black and white · graininess · shadow · negatives · fixer · exposure · silence · emulsion · darkroom · print · blackness · gloom · safelight · dusk · films · murk · introspection

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Opposites
openness to light

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Glass-enclosed home additions

solariums · conservatories · atriums · open-air spaces · greenhouses

photographic function

dark roomsphoto studios

Spaces for professional photography

gallery spaces · exhibition halls

photography context

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Shared spaces with workstations

lightboxes

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG