Well, another 3 weeks in lockdown – lets do something else Lumenprints!! These are fab to do, especially with the nice weather. Basically, it’s one of the oldest photographic processes, you place stuff on top of the light sensitive paper, hold in place with plastic …
Due to the current situation, the build on the new darkroom has been put on hold until its safe to continue. In the meantime, we want to remain active in the community and here on social media, so we are proposing a little project for people …
Come join us on Friday 8th December 2017 to celebrate the formal opening of our new community darkroom. After months of work, enormous effort by Lo-Fi members and support from Braunstone Park and Rowley Fields community ward funding and also Westcotes community ward funding, we are ready to celebrate its completion. Will will also be launching our new education program for 2018 supported using public funding by National Lottery through Arts Council England.
See a working darkroom in action, view some of our previous group exhibitions, have your picture taken with our popular Kamra-e-Faoree (Afghan box camera) and enjoy the musical experience that is Rich Myoptik. His double gramophone gambit is a particular joy to behold, fusing his radio voice with classic 78s from a bygone age where photography was a thing of miraculous proportions, as indeed were the cloaks and the penny farthings…
Friday 8th December
6.00pm – 9.00pm
376A Western Road Leicester
LE3 0ED
After a few months of building and painting and drinking tea we are almost ready to open up the new darkroom. We will have 7 enlargers, capable of printing all film formats up to 5×4, as well as all the film processing kit from before …
We are proud to present Dev Stop & Fix, a quarterly photozine featuring the work of our members. A5 in size and 24 pages long, with a limited print run of 50 copies. Get yours now from the new Leicester Lo-Fi Store, or from our …
We are once again taking part in this years Handmade Festival, with two exhibitions at the O2 Arena at the Leicester University campus.
‘HighLife, Low Life’ – an analogue exhibition by Lo-Fi member Joe Manger
‘Handmade Books’ – a small collection of unique one-off books made by the group.
Both shows are on this weekend only.
We have been given permission to use the very well equipped darkroom at the St Margarets campus of Leicester College. We will be running darkroom and film processing sessions on a Thursday evening 6-9pm.
At the end of March we moved out of the Darkroom at the Manor House, since then work was started on building a new home at Yellow Bean studios on Western Road. The process is a slow one (seeing as work is carried out when we …
For this years Handmade Festival, we are inviting members to make photobooks.
check out the projects page for more details
We are proud to launch the theme for our main project or 2017: ‘Glow – Our Lives on Screen’ A recent study suggests that for the first time we spend more time online than we do watching TV. We would like to invite you to photograph people …