Fotohane DARKROOM

Fotohane DARKROOM is a non-profit association based in Mardin, Turkey working on arts & culture, children & youth, refugees & migration +1 more.

Fotohane DARKROOM is a registered non-profit association in Türkiye and a community-based, participatory analog photography project. It runs workshops in which local and migrant children, including Syrian, Iraqi, Turkish and Kurdish participants, learn to shoot, develop and print their own photographs using analog cameras. The workshops aim to build friendships, mutual understanding and self-expression, using photography and storytelling as a therapeutic and creative tool. Based in Mardin, in southeastern Turkey near the Syrian and Iraqi borders, the project works with children and youth and welcomes volunteers, artists and collaborating institutions.