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picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom

Name: picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom
Address: 437 West 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011, US
Telephone: +12122430170
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creative retouching + lab + prepress

we are an analog+digital post production studio servicing the fields of photography, fashion+beauty, and communication arts. with over 15 years of experience, we specialize in creative retouching, photo illustration, prepress, digital printing and darkroom services.

03/23/2026

Lauren Noelle Oliver is among the artists on this Friday’s exciting panel about the shared language of cinema, photography, and photobooks. She will be in conversation with Keisha Scarville , Martha Naranjo Sandoval , and Sofía Granados Dyer. RSVP via link in bio!

Lauren Noelle Oliver uses film and photography interchangeably to document performances that begin with her own body. For an ongoing project “Body Revolt,” Oliver set up an experiment in which she attempted to keep two eggs intact as she balanced them under the heels of her feet. Documenting this demonstration of physical endurance from just one perspective didn’t quite satisfy. That’s why Oliver added a 2nd camera and made a film structured as a two-channel diptych. After all — how to express the relationship between different parts of the body? How does stress move between the arc of the foot, the heel bone, and the tibula?

In her interdisciplinary approach to the lens, Oliver explores the tension between stasis and transformation that is always at play in the body. What does it mean to enter the frame and occupy the space? What happens when you leave?

03/16/2026

On Friday, March 27, Sofía Granados Dyer moderates a conversation between Martha Naranjo Sandoval , Keisha Scarville and Lauren Noelle Oliver .

RSVP via link in bio! ❤️

They will be exploring the shared language of cinema, photography, and photobooks. Where do jump cuts meet triptychs? Where does montage meet the page? And what kind of story does that tell?

Movement animates more than just the work of these photographers, as they explore the complexities and progression of their lives.

02/08/2026

We’re proud to have worked with Daniel Arnold on post-production for his book with Loose Joints , You Are What You Do. In honor, we’re exhibiting a selection of his work through February 28!

We’ve also got signed copies of the book in the studio, along with a limited number of Daniel Arnold t-shirts. 😋

Email [email protected] for inquiries about prints or sizing.

01/17/2026

TODAY at 6 pm, Sofía Granados Dyer speaks with Daniel Arnold and Jeff Mermelstein about their new releases: You Are What You Do and What If Jeff Were A Butterfly?

Tickets are sold out, but we’ll be live on IG at 6 pm! You can reserve a signed copy of the book via link in bio.

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Daniel Arnold is a jokester, an aesthete, and a charmer. He is also a scruffy sleuth seeking out life’s mysteries in an age of distraction. In his new monograph with Loose Joints, You Are What You Do, there are moments of absurdity and joy. Something out of the frame has stopped Alex Consani dead in their tracks. Meanwhile, a pig is roasting, rotisserie style, outside of Rockefeller Center, and Kim’s cleavage is eclipsing a scowling Kanye.

There are also moments of profound sadness and sentimentality whose secrets remain enclosed by the frame. Never mind the indignities of a black eye — a young woman has found a sweet rat to nuzzle. Its name was Dylan. From cover to cover, the book is a feast for the eyes.

What would NYC be without Daniel Arnold?

12/12/2025

This Monday, Dec 15 at 6pm, Sam Penn and Max Battle are in the studio to discuss their new co-published book Max!!! RSVP via link in bio. ❣️

Max, borne of Penn’s and Battle’s romantic collaboration, dives headlong into the complexities of eroticism and trust. The book, adorable on the outside and salacious on the inside, intertwines Penn’s photographs with a series of vignettes Battle penned about life, s*x, and desire.

The book accompanies Penn’s eponymous solo exhibition at New York Life Gallery , which combines portraits of Battle, self-portraits, as well as landscapes, and is on view through Dec 20.

Here’s an exerpt:

In the pharmacy, we struggle to find shampoo, shaving cream, sunscreen, and toothpaste in French travel sizes. We laugh and sigh and grab at each other as a task that should take five minutes drags us into the second half of the hour. I pick up a bottle of hand cream and curl my palm around the smooth plastic. I want to ask her, why do you love me, what would you do if I ended up pregnant, do you believe in marriage, would you break up with me if I pushed you in the canal, would you ever kill a man? We have breakfast in the park, surrounded by children laughing and picking at deconstructed hamburgers and fries. We talk about having kids. The fantasy keeps at bay a plethora of unpleasant realities, offering instead the pursuit of some long and legible future. We bike past an army of stern-faced French police officers, a hundred or so at least, machine guns held against their armored chests.

She shot 29 rolls this month, almost a thousand pictures, my body from every angle. Each image stings like her hand on my ass when I ask nicely. The greater the distance between the present and the moment of capture, the less the person in the photographs belongs to me; the harder it is to remember that I was there, moving my body into position, saying yes, saying no, saying please.

11/08/2025

What better way to spend a fall day than gallery hopping in the city! Make sure to check out Sam Penn’s new exhibition, Max, at on Canal Street.
We had the pleasure of collaborating with Sam on this beautiful intimate project — a complete treat seeing this body of work transform from film to an exhibition of 19 larger than life prints.
The zine accompanying the exhibition, along with her other publication Bad Behavior, will be available in our bookshop in the coming weeks—or you can grab them at NYLG.

09/25/2025

Don’t forget that Jungjin Lee is in conversation this evening with Brian Kanagaki on her new book Thing!! ( )

As part of a wider conversation on bookmaking, Lee is additionally presenting a selection of her rarely-shown book maquettes.

We’ll have 20 titles by Jungjin Lee available for sale at the event, many of which are sold out. Among them, Everglades, Opening, Desert, and ’s Unnamed Road.

Send us an email to reserve your copy in advance.

See you in a few hours ❤️❤️❤️

09/24/2025

TOMORROW at 6 pm, Jungjin Lee is in the studio discussing Thing ( ), as well as her wider approach to bookmaking.

Lee will present a selection of her book maquettes alongside photographer, designer, and publisher Brian Kanagaki .

Kanagaki is behind the gorgeous large-format series, Soft Copy. He has also published Golden Persimmons II ( ) and Doldrums ( ). Here are some photographs from Doldrums, which is about the grace of living in the present in the wake of emotional turmoil.

We have copies of Doldrums, Golden Persimmons II, and Soft Copy in the studio.

See you soon 🌹🌹

09/20/2025

Mike Brodie and Leo Fitzpatrick are in the studio on Saturday, October 4 at 4 pm to discuss the work of Mia Justice Smith. ❤️❤️❤️

RSVP via link in bio! Also - please consider donating generously to Shatterproof, an organization battling addiction.

“Then there must be a hell, where the spirit dance a sing,” wrote Mia Justice Smith, Mike Brodie’s long-time companion, collaborator, and lover. Mia was an artist in her own right, documenting the life of freedom that she found hopping trains. Mia’s life was tragically cut short from an overdose. She was 23 years old.

We’ve teamed up with Bill Daniel .daniel and Ian Ritter to print a selection of her photographs, which will be on view in the studio through December 12.

Don’t miss our afternoon discussion on Mia’s life, creativity, and her incredible collaboration with Mike Brodie.

Bonus: Copies of Failing and A Period of Juvenile Prosperity will be available at the event.

08/19/2025

Jeff Henrikson photographed New York contemporary artists and their studios for Study Volume 11!

From .magazine

“Photographer Jeff Henrikson spent his Spring crisscrossing New York City to chronicle the studios of contemporary artists...What he found is as varied as the city itself. Some spare, others vast and commanding but all bear the unmistakable imprint of the persons that inhabit them. They are more than workspaces; they are extensions of their mind, they are the places where art begins.

There is a long-standing mythology surrounding the artist’s studio. It’s a subject endlessly photographed throughout the annals of art history. We are drawn to these sites of creation, but Henrikson offers something more curious, more nuanced. His is a study stripped of romance, focusing instead on clarity.”

Develop + High Res Scans

Artists featured:
Joan Jonas
Jessi Reaves
Francesco Clemente
Joe Bradley
John Chamberlain
Maggie Lee
Nate Lowman
Nick Mauss
Win McCarthy
R.H. Quaytman
Olivia Vigo

06/19/2025

Happy Juneteenth!!

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Tuesday	10am - 6pm
Wednesday	10am - 6pm
Thursday	10am - 6pm
Friday	10am - 6pm
Saturday	11am - 5pm

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+12122430170

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https://phtsdr.com/

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