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Black & white photographic darkroom and studio in Bristol. Offering workshops, courses and an inclusive, inspiring community. Think Negative!
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Are you ready?! CritClub returns tonight at NTHQ! Bring your prints, project ideas, experiments, notebooks, and burning questions, or simply come and enjoy the vibes.
We can't wait to see what you've been working on!
Join us at any time from 6pm onwards at NTHQ, Willway Yard, Bedminster. All are welcome!
If you've never visited Negative Thinking before, CritClub is a great opportunity to see the space and meet our fantastic community of artists.
See you later!
#darkroom #communitydarkroom #bristol
06 Nov 2026
Hello beautiful people, just a lil update about the Cyanolumen workshop coming up on the 8th November. I would love for you to come and join me, Sula, to learn and explore the Cyanolumen process where we will create unique prints using black and white photographic paper coated with cyanotype chemistry.
We’ll try out different papers to make a variety of contact prints from found objects, plant material, analogue, digital and hand-made transparencies. Meaning you’ll leave with your own beautiful , textural and expressive photographic creations along with the confidence to experiment with the process at home.
This workshop is beginner-friendly, with materials provided. Just bring enthusiasm and some creative spirit!
Big Love
Sula x
04 Nov 2026
UPDATE! Due to requests we are changing Martyn Grimmer’s workshop to a one day bonanza on 5th December! (Previously is was a full weekend which people were finding hard to commit to)
This course is offered at £100 and will be a deep dive into Gum Bichromate over Cyanotype led by an absolute master @martyngrimmer
We love having Martyn teach here with us, he is, with no doubt, the safest hands for teaching this process. And an abolishes joy. Expect a busy busy day of layering up your gum and cyanotype layers, lots of cups of tea and lots of ooohs and aaahs and people’s prints emerge like magic from the chemistry.
We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a wonderful day of exploration and learning, giving you skills to create beautifully rich textural prints like the one above by Kieran Hayhow @ka.h.arts.
We hope you can join us! Email if you have any questions!
30 Oct 2026
Today we are wishing our wonderful friend Amy @_amywarren huge congratulations and best of luck as she heads over to LA for the Emmys! The documentary series that Amy works on in a team of four is up for 4 awards! We are so proud of Amy and everything she is achieving. Her commitment to share stories and worlds along with her kindness and hard work make her a force. We are incredibly proud of have her in the Negative Thinking team, both with teaching and with the growth of her personal practice. She has become an incredible friend to Tim and me, and fairy godmother to Fred and we are incredibly proud to know her and glad she came through our door two years ago.
Have fun in LA pal! It might be bizarre but it’s also wildly fun and where you should be!!
28 Oct 2026
Lith Printing Workshop - 7th November
Hello everyone! We would love to see you at our next Lith Printing workshop in November! This process is Tim’s most used process, and he loves teaching it. Opening the door to this alternative process always feels like an initiation of the participants: showing them the shoreline of an ocean and watching as everyone dips their toe and nervous systems settle into the pace.
This process is infectious- both on the paper and in the mind. The results are beautifully textural, but what I think really grabs people is the way it asks you to really slow down. You will make some wonderful prints that cannot be replicated. Every print is unique. Once initiation is compete you will be booking darkroom time to explore this world some more and master this process.
A basic understanding of the darkroom is beneficial to get the most out of this day, but we have a darkroom basics next weekend with a couple of places left if you want to dive in from there!
We hope you take a leap of faith and jump into lith printing with us. Email if you have any questions. We need one more participant for this day to run. So don’t be shy- come join the Negative Thinking project; for a day or for a lifetime- whatever suits!
Best wishes
Em
22 Oct 2026
Portfolio: Kieran Hayhow, Firenze
We look forward to showcasing our next Portfolio in the gallery at NTHQ!
Firenze by Kieran Hayhow @ka.h.arts
Kieran has been printing with us for 2 years, and this year secured some elusive @aceagrams DYCP funding. This is a showcase of just some of the work he has produced with this time, delving deep into the land of lith printing. Kieran has showed dedication and heart as he has walked this path and it has been an honour to support him through the ups and downs of the makers journey. We have had some wonderful conversations about artistry and productivity and allowing yourself to feel the chapters you find yourself in without punishment.
Lith is such an intricate and slow process, the natural introspection can be beautiful and challenging. I salute those that want to master this process; it takes strength.
We are incredibly proud of Kieran and are delighted that he is showcasing his work with us. He is an asset to the NT community; incredibly kind in spreading word of our existence, offering support with proof reading, and pretty consistently bringing in new recruits!!
Kieran - this portfolio will be a wonderful celebration of the artistic journey you are on and we are so excited to see your work up on our walls. It’s going to be great!
We hope everyone will join us on Thursday 29th October from 5.30pm to view this body of work and raise a glass to our wonderful friend. This exhibition will be on until the beginning of December so make sure you take some time amongst it over the coming weeks.
Come on over and join us on these rainy autumn days.
Em x
20 Oct 2026
A unique opportunity to get kids (aged 7-12) into the DARKROOM this half-term!
✨ Wednesday 28th October, 10:30 - 12:30 ✨
The kids will explore print-making, play with art prompts and make their own analogue print at Negative Thinking (Willway St, Bedminster, Bristol, BS3 4BG).
£20 including all kit/ materials.
Email [email protected] to book. Spaces are very limited, so email asap to avoid disappointment!
19 Oct 2026
The foreword I've written for the Negative Thinking publication, The Prints of Darkness, an important initiative launched at BOP sharing new work made in one of the few Dark Rooms available to everyone.
@negative_thinking_bristol @bop_bristol
Support the outposts that still survive for future generations.
@negative_thinking_bristol (Bristol),
@positivelightprojects (Exeter, Devon),
@contactdarkroom (Totnes, Devon),
@sw_darkroom (London),
@northlondondarkroom (London),
@rapideye.darkroom (London)
@thedarkroombc (Herne Bay, Kent),
@stillsedinburgh (Scotland),
@island_darkroom (Isle of Lewis),
@sustainabledarkroom (International),
@toner.pz (Penzance, Cornwall),
@cornwall_community_darkroom (New Mill, Penzance, Cornwall),
@318_art_lab (London)
@soupfilmlab (London)
I'm pleased to receive details of other Dark Rooms to include in future posts. Once long ago Ilford held a list for those seeking their 'local darkroom'. Hopefully together we can create a new list for the future.
Artwork: Quicken (iii).
#communitydarkroom #light #dark #darkroom #garryfabianmiller
18 Oct 2026
Hello folks, Em here. We have a book for you!
The Prints of Darkness has arrived.
What a busy few weeks it has been. Whilst conception for this book was long ago ignited, we have managed to turn this book around from first email to artists to sending to print in 18 days. Designed by Fenton Fleming @phenton.jf with Tim and I over each of his shoulders, adding in artists as they delivered work, writing words, proof reading- including a hopeful ask to our dear friend and hero Garry Fabian Miller @garryfabianmiller to see if he would write us a foreword.
BOP festival gave us a table on 8th September and whilst this book has been in our hearts a long time, it had dropped down the list of priorities when we didn’t get a table in June. But we said we had to go for it. We reassembled the priority list and set to work.
We have learnt so much with this first foray into the book world. We live in much more of a POW world (prints of walls) than a BOP world (books on photography) and this was a new and exciting project. Tim as ever, had the concept in his head in full and we just had to make it real.
We are hugely proud of what we have achieved, how excited people have been for us and the supportive drop ins with biscuits and laughs. This is a celebration of just some of the work that has been made in our darkroom over the last 4 years. This is a showcase beyond our exhibitions that illustrate the artistry and devotion of this community- not only as individuals with a practice, but as a connected web of generous supporters. We hope it makes you happy. We hope we have made you proud.
This is the first but by no means the last. This here launches an exciting new chapter for us, showcasing your work into new places. If you are not in this edition, please come and spend your time learning a soulful skill and be in the next one. We will support you every step of the way.
We have 160 copies of this book for @bop_bristol - they are priced at £18. It contains over 70 artists. Come say hello and have a chat, and pick up the OG Prints of Darkness
Negative Thinking, Positive Making
17 Oct 2026
My copy of Prints of Darkness arrived yesterday.
A celebration of the Negative Thinking community containing the work of over 70 photographers, all made in the Dark Room of @negative_thinking_bristol over the past four years.
Congratulations Tim and Emily – keepers of the Dark Room light in Bristol.
Launching at BOP today @bop_bristol @martinparrfdn Paintworks Event Space/Martin Parr Foundation, 10am-6pm. Continues Sunday.
#communitydarkroom #light #dark #darkroom #garryfabianmiller
16 Oct 2026
Come and join us at Arnolfini for a chemigram workshop!
In celebration of Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey, respond to the exhibition through expressive photo-chemical drawing. Using a specialist photographic technique, sketch your surroundings and experiment with mark-making and chemical reactions to create unique, hand-drawn photographic images.
Part drawing, part experimental photography, this workshop invites you to explore abstraction and discover the creative possibilities of image-making.
Experiment, create and see photography in a new light!
Time: 2–4pm
Location: Arnolfini, Light Studio, Level 2
This is a pay-what-you-can workshop, with everyone welcome to contribute what they are able to.
Children under 12 must be supervised by an accompanying adult.
16 Oct 2026
Hi all, Tim here. I just wanted to let you know about two fantastic half-day workshops that are coming up soon at NTHQ!
Firstly, on the 24th of October we have our Plant-based Developers workshop with Sophie @small.picture_ who will guide you through the process of making your own eco-friendly developers from plants that you might find in your garden or at the supermarket!
A fun workshop for anyone wanting to explore alternative methods of image making.
Secondly, we have a film processing workshop with Fenton @phenton.jf on the 25th, where you'll be instructed in how to best turn your film into negatives!
Both of these workshops are beginner friendly and fun, so why not come along and learn something new?
Each of these workshops will require you to bring along a roll of exposed but unprocessed black and white film, but all other materials and chemistry are provided.
We really hope you can join us!
#darkroom #filmprocessing #plantdeveloper #bristol
09 Oct 2026
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