Tag: photography

The wait is over!

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 

New Leicester Lo-Fi PhotoZine

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 

Handmade 2017 exhibitions

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.

Leicester Lo-Fi @ Leicester College

Leicester Lo-Fi @ Leicester College

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.

In every end is a new beginning…..

In every end is a new beginning…..

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 

New Project – GLOW

New Project – GLOW

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 lit by the screens that surround us. See the Exhibitions section for more details

Festive darkroom closing

Festive darkroom closing

As the Christmas Season is almost upon us, the darkroom will be closed on the following days over the next few weeks: Wednesday 14th December. Tuesday 27th December. Wednesday 28th December. We hope you all have a very merry Christmas and look forward to seeing 

Alternative Christmas Card Workshop

Alternative Christmas Card Workshop

We’re afraid we’re having to cancel this workshop for this year but it’ll be back again next year.  

Kamra-e-Faoree portraits – Art Trail 2016

Kamra-e-Faoree portraits – Art Trail 2016

Last weekend saw the start of this years Art Trail Festival, for our part we put on a Kamra-e-faoree portrait session at the Orange Tree, as well as the ‘Exposure’ exhibition. Check out some images from the portrait session below, and go check out the exhibition, its on until the end of the month.

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Exposure Exhibition

Our latest exhibition – Exposure – has just been installed at the Orange Tree. Collating recent work by current Leicester Lo-Fi members. With everything from pinholes to photograms, paper negatives to destroyed negatives.   It’s on show until the end of August. [foogallery id=”1635″]