darkroom

American  

[dahrk-room, -room] / ˈdɑrkˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

Photography.

1. a room in which film or the like is made, handled, or developed and from which the actinic rays of light are excluded.

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darkroom British  

/ ˈdɑːkˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a room in which photographs are processed in darkness or safe light

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Etymology

Origin of darkroom

First recorded in 1835–45; dark + room

Example Sentences

"There was a darkroom in the vicarage and I saw one of the older boys printing a photograph and I just knew that was going to be my life, really," he explains.

From BBC

She first discovered photography in a darkroom at Orange Coast College before completing her degree at UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times

With a mobile darkroom in her car’s trunk, she can develop the plates on-site, allowing subjects to see their ethereal black-and-white image within minutes.

From Los Angeles Times

That impulse translated into nights developing stock in a makeshift darkroom Lanthimos rigged in his Budapest apartment’s bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times

"When I was about nine, 10, 11, I used to work in my father's darkroom," Duncan said.

From BBC