Developing
Stories
There’s a story inside every envelope of negatives that passes through Safelight Labs.
Developing Stories is our place to celebrate photography, as San Diego’s best photographers turn their lens on our community and our world.
For a chance to be featured on the blog, send us a note, or just opt in next time you drop off a roll of film.
A Year in Change: Yearbook Creative turns One
No need to call the babysitter. ‘Girls on Film’ frames a family portrait for their next event.
Don’t shudder to open the shutter! 2025 San Diego film zine wants your submissions.
Forgotten Frames: Slide by slide, a family rediscovers an archive of Antarctic memories
At Barrio Logan’s Día de Muertos, Checka Sardina finds ‘Our faces, our culture, our block, our history.’
Do you choose your camera or does the camera choose you? Rob Cowan has the answer.
A group show that’s all about the details
Camera Exposure brings a new look into focus
An Adams Avenue Street Fair to Remember
A Local Journalist’s Guide to Surviving the Attention Economy: Questions for Bella Ross
Still processing Jacob Koopman’s tribute to Normal Heights
If Adams Avenue could talk. A street fair and gallery show collide to celebrate Safelight Labs / Camera Exposure’s five-year anniversary
‘Girls on Film’ photography club puts the female gaze on display — front and center
Food Porn on Film: Nitty Beat Redefines the Starving Artist
Behold the female gaze! All-women’s photo club now accepting submissions for group show
Is Kodak on the Brink? Here’s why our beloved film stocks will endure
It’s San Diego Summer. Let’s Celebrate with a Print Swap.
In San Diego FC’s parking lot, ‘football brings cultures together’: Questions for Israel Castillo
This is a Developing Story: A trifecta of digital shorts to unspool on YouTube.
