photography labs

The college's photography facilities allow both beginning and advanced students to work in a well-equipped environment that fosters the exploration of individual photographic vision. These facilities can be used for traditional black and white, color, digital, and alternative photographic methods.

CVA's Western Avenue Photo Studio houses a large shooting studio, lighting equipment, seamless backdrops, reflectors, tripods, and other gear necessary for studio work. It functions as the Photo Classroom as well. Also located in the Western building are the Dry Mounting, Matte Cutting, Copy Camera rooms, and the Photo Faculty Office. Adjacent to the Photo Studio is the new Digital Darkroom, housing computers, scanners and our state of the art Epson Inkjet Photo Printers, allowing printing with pigmented archival inks on elegant 100% rag papers.

Close by in the Marquette Building are the college's black and white and color darkrooms, film processing area, photo student lounge, and equipment check out counter. Here, small, medium, and large format cameras, video cameras, tripods, darkroom kits, and other equipment can be accessed. Our newest facility is an Alternative Process Darkroom located adjacent to the Film Processing area in the Marquette Labs. Here students can explore the fascinating world of such historical processes as cyanotype, Van Dyke, gum bichromate, platinum and palladium, and hand-applied liquid emulsions on alternative surfaces.