darkroom
noun
dark·room
ˈdärk-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a room with no light or with a safelight for developing light-sensitive photographic materials
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Isaac Jones still remembers the walk-in closet of his Austin home doubling as a darkroom.
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Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
As usual, under Horst’s system, each roll was meticulously logged in with a double set of stick-on numbers: first beside the photographer’s name in a school exercise book and second on the actual roll of film for processing in the darkroom.
—Gary Knight, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
For herself: a darkroom, also on the ground floor, and a photography studio on the top, under a skylight.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
In the finale, Mia discovers another photograph at the home of George (Don Hany), whose darkroom Bronte had been using to develop her photographs.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 6 June 2025
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Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
As usual, under Horst’s system, each roll was meticulously logged in with a double set of stick-on numbers: first beside the photographer’s name in a school exercise book and second on the actual roll of film for processing in the darkroom.
—Gary Knight, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
For herself: a darkroom, also on the ground floor, and a photography studio on the top, under a skylight.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 15 July 2025
In the finale, Mia discovers another photograph at the home of George (Don Hany), whose darkroom Bronte had been using to develop her photographs.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 6 June 2025
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darkroom
noun
dark·room
ˈdärk-ˌrüm
-ˌru̇m
: a lightproof room used in developing photographic materials (as film and prints)
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