DIY
Dark
Room.

Print your own black & white photographs directly at your home. No experience required.

The Process

Four steps.
Your photo.

Assembling the dokaLab kit

Leap into the world of darkroom photography by assembling the cardboard kit: creasing the trays, folding the enlarger, inserting the lens, building your own lab to make unique prints.

Composing the shot with the enlarger

Discover your artistic flair while composing your image. Here, you can master cropping, masking, double exposure; the possibilities are endless!

Exposing the photo paper

Using a smartphone to create a digital negative, you project your image onto photosensitive paper, creating a physical photograph.

Developing the photo in trays

Now it's time to be a modern-day alchemist! Using our in-app timers as a guide, submerge the photo paper into the developer and then the fixer. Give it a quick rinse, and you're officially an analog aficionado!

Retail Partners

Find dokaLab near you.

Pick up a kit at one of our retail partners.

Reviews

Printed by you.

Real prints, real darkrooms, real people.

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“I had a wonderful time using dokaLab! I am not a photographer and still the process was easy and I was able to develop gorgeous photos. I highly recommend! ”

— Anna M.

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“Developed photos with my family and it was a great experience! My young ones had no idea about darkroom photography. They thought it was magic!”

— Jeroen V.

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“I did this in my dorm bathroom. It was a great time!”

— Sofia K.

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“Super fun! I love experimenting with different photographic methods and dokalab did not disappoint! ”

— Daniel R.