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Polite notice:
If you have purchased a 1:1 workshop, please email me to discuss availability
Please note that my availablility is limited during the summer months as I have pre-booked events and bookings.
My earliest availability begins September on wards and is booked on a first-come-first served basis.
For Darkroom Hire
please see the hiring schedule here.
Upcoming Events
Browse upcoming group workshops, opportunities and other news
bOing festival
Cyanotypes Workshop
Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug
Times: 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3pm
Tickets: £5.25 (Inc booking fee)
Ages: 5+
BOOKING:
boingfestival.com/event
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Are you looking to gain volunteer experience in the arts?
Please email Emily: thedarkroomatbeachcreative@gmail.com
Days: Sat 29 & Sun 30 Aug
Times: 11.30am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3pm
Tickets: £5.25 (Inc booking fee)
Ages: 5+
BOOKING:
boingfestival.com/event
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Are you looking to gain volunteer experience in the arts?
Please email Emily: thedarkroomatbeachcreative@gmail.com
Harvest & Release Retreat
Sun 4th October 2026
11am-3:30pm
Painters Forstal Community Hall
Centred around yoga, seasonal nourishment, creativity, and sound. Inspired by the abundance of the harvest season, this retreat is an opportunity to honour everything you've grown throughout the year, let go of what no longer serves you, and create space for what you're being called to nurture next.
11am-3:30pm
Painters Forstal Community Hall
Centred around yoga, seasonal nourishment, creativity, and sound. Inspired by the abundance of the harvest season, this retreat is an opportunity to honour everything you've grown throughout the year, let go of what no longer serves you, and create space for what you're being called to nurture next.
Donate via Patreon
✨In 2015, I began to put together a small darkroom onsite at Beach Creative. 10 years on I have been lucky enough to have met and taught so many people. As we step into a new decade of The Darkroom, I have decided to add a bit more spine to this community focused darkroom
✨With this Patreon, I aim to bring in a trickle of funds to bolster the hard work I have put in over the last 10 years. Via various monthly donations of support, you can access behind the scenes content and receive photography related perks in the post. The behind the scenes content will grow as time goes on
✨Your donations will help to support the basic runnings of the darkroom, materials and help keep workshops and other opportunities affordable for all
✨Over the last 10 years I have continued to keep affordability and access at the heart and soul of what I do. Many of my workshops are free or low cost
✨In 2023 I began offering artist residencies within the darkroom, self funded* and free for artists to enter and attend. I’d love to expand this and offer more artist residencies in Herne Bay
*edit: to clarify, I personally funded the artist residencies. I didn’t ask the artist to self-fund
✨Most of the work I do focuses on enabling children & young adults to gain new skills. Enabling them to access photography skills, darkroom experience and exhibition opportunities is vital in this ever changing screen based world.
✨I’d like to take a moment to say a huge thank you to everyone who has attended my workshops and courses since 2015. And a special thank you to all the partner organisations who have invited me to their spaces. Here’s to 2025!
‼️Find my Patreon link on my website, in my Instagram
bio or in my newsletter
✨With this Patreon, I aim to bring in a trickle of funds to bolster the hard work I have put in over the last 10 years. Via various monthly donations of support, you can access behind the scenes content and receive photography related perks in the post. The behind the scenes content will grow as time goes on
✨Your donations will help to support the basic runnings of the darkroom, materials and help keep workshops and other opportunities affordable for all
✨Over the last 10 years I have continued to keep affordability and access at the heart and soul of what I do. Many of my workshops are free or low cost
✨In 2023 I began offering artist residencies within the darkroom, self funded* and free for artists to enter and attend. I’d love to expand this and offer more artist residencies in Herne Bay
*edit: to clarify, I personally funded the artist residencies. I didn’t ask the artist to self-fund
✨Most of the work I do focuses on enabling children & young adults to gain new skills. Enabling them to access photography skills, darkroom experience and exhibition opportunities is vital in this ever changing screen based world.
✨I’d like to take a moment to say a huge thank you to everyone who has attended my workshops and courses since 2015. And a special thank you to all the partner organisations who have invited me to their spaces. Here’s to 2025!
‼️Find my Patreon link on my website, in my Instagram
bio or in my newsletter
WILD SWIM PROJECT IS ON PAUSE RIGHT NOW Wild Swim Project
Wild Swim is a self funded project by Emily Rose Parris. The aim of the project is to photograph Kent based wild swimmers and dippers at all stages of their wild swimming journey as a form of celebration. Emily will photograph participants across a year using 35mm Ilford HP5 film in a candid, un-posed style. The exposed film will then be processed by hand and printed at The Darkroom at Beach Creative, Emily’s studio and small business based in Herne Bay.
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