"New Orleans' Darkroom is the most exciting photography workshop facility in the country. The Darkroom is adding what it's got to what is already here. It has the finest digital and darkroom facilities available, the crème de la crème photographers instructing their workshops, a huge selection of materials - paper, film, chemistry,...- to experiment with, and all these things are housed within a European-minded working space located in New Orleans. New Orleans naturally has location. The world's most visually charged images are right here all the time: jazz funerals, juke joints, Creole architecture, Caribbean colors, ghostly bayou landscapes, and now, since the flood, New Orleans has this incredible, historical landscape that is positively ripe with rare documentary and fine art images.
So, imagine you are immersed in a pool of talent, set in a historically and visually charged city, and you then filter your experience through the Darkroom. It just couldn't get any better." - Herman Leonard