Real Photography Company, St Pauls, Bristol, UK.

The Real Photography Company are a Bristol-based Community Interest Company incorporated in July 2017,

producing exciting photography projects, and managing Community Darkrooms at St Pauls Learning Centre, Bristol. We aim to revive and refresh traditional and alternative photography, and in normal times we ensure high quality Darkroom facilities are available 7 days a week for photographers in Bristol and beyond, with a low cost Membership scheme, and a programme of Workshops.

COVID NEWS:

Darkrooms are currently closed due to Lockdown - apologies to all our Darkroom Users and Members, we'll be back as soon as possible! Our free Covid-Safe Darkroom Inductions will resume when we are out of restrictions, and Supported Darkroom Sessions will be rescheduled. Darkroom Memberships are frozen until Darkrooms reopen.

Alternative Photography Workshops - April to July 2021

A new series of intensive workshops, exploring pinhole photography, solargraphy, anthotypes, chemigrams, lumen printing, cyanotypes and more - produced in collaboration with international artist-photographer, Cristina Nuñez See Events for details.

In Bristol, you can still see our Black History exhibition, The Pioneers, projected every evening from Glen's Cafe at St Pauls Learning Centre,

visible from dusk till midnight from Grosvenor Rd.

Over summer 2020 we ran a popular Alternative Photography Summer School, funded by an Arts Council Emergency Grant.

See our Resources for downloadable guides and video tutorials on all featured processes such as Room Obscuras, Anthotypes, Chlorophyll Printing, Cyanotypes, Chemigrams and Caffenol, Paper Negatives and more.

Have a look at the Summer School Gallery of amazing images created by participants!

Other funded community photography projects include:

Chemistry Workshops 2019 - 20 with local schools, Cabot, Glenfrome, St Werburghs, St Barnabus and Evergreen, funded by the Royal School of Chemistry.
Photo-Social Project 2019 - 20 bringing people together for a variety of workshops, talks, exhibitions and other events, funded by the Big Lottery,
Photography course, workshops and exhibition in 2019 - 20 for the Over 50's Inner City Photographers funded by Bristol Ageing Better,
School Science Project with five local primary schools 2018 - 19, funded by the Ogden Trust,
My St Pauls Community Photography Project, 2018 - 19 funded by Bristol City Council, working with local groups including Over 50's, refugees and asylum seekers and people recovering from addictions.