LIGHT WORK | About Us

Light Work's Community Darkrooms facility is a large community access photography and computer lab located in the Robert B. Menschel Media Center at Syracuse University. This modern facility has equipment and space to process and print a variety of black and white and color photographic material. The lab is also equipped with a state-of-the-art digital imaging lab for creating and manipulating computer based work. The Community Darkrooms serves as the focal point for our educational programming by offering a wide range of classes, workshops, and seminars that are taught by local professionals and visiting artists. Courses and workshops are offered throughout the year and are designed to introduce the public to the art and craft of photography and electronic imaging.

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The activities of Light Work include an Artist-in-Residence program, exhibitions, publications, grants to Central New York artists, projects for mid-career artists, and maintaining a collection of contemporary photographic works. Each year we produce five issues of our publication Contact Sheet that are distributed to artists, museums, galleries, and subscribers across the country and internationally. Each publication includes reproductions of an artist's work along with interpretative texts about the work. These publications are instrumental in creating opportunities for artists and presenting their work to a larger audience. Public lectures and gallery talks by visiting and exhibiting artists are presented throughout the year.

Click here to read a chronology of Light Work's history from 1973 to September 2008.

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery