Event
Makerspaces Closed
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Makerspaces will be closed Saturday 4 July, Saturday 11 July and Wednesday 15 July
What's On
Workshop
School Holidays: Winter Photo Makers
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Enjoy two full days of photographic making and experimenting in the winter school holidays! For kids aged 8-16
Event
Exhibition Opening: Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize 2026
Join us for the opening of Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize 2026
Exhibition
Canberra Contemporary Photographic Prize
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Exhibition and competition celebrating both emerging and established talents in photo media.
Workshop
Film Developing and Scanning Workshop
This workshop is a quick and easy way to learn how to develop your own black and white 35mm film or 120 film.
About
photo access is a unique centre for image making, established in 1984, and is the longest-lived such organisation in Australia. With a full exhibition and events program, workshop schedule, and community projects, there is always something happening at photo access.
Upcoming
Workshop
Build Your Own Portfolio Website Workshop
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Learn how to create your own professional portfolio website - for beginners
Workshop
After Dark
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After Dark 2026 is a space where photo access members can come together to use the member's facilities after hours.
Exhibition
LUCKY ROCKET:
Yani Clarke
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LUCKY ROCKET follows Yani Clarke’s return after the 2022 floods, revisiting Bun Bang Fai rocket festivals to explore place, ritual, and resilience.
Exhibition
Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归) :
Guylieuzy (Ming Liew & Will Wang)
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A moving-image exhibition exploring Chinese–Australian hybrid identity shaped by migration, memory and cultural negotiation.
Workshop
Meeting You, Again: Photography, Memory and the Practice of Return (2016 calls 2026)
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Revisit 2016 and develop new work that responds to memory, reflection and growth with exhibiting artist Yani Clarke
Workshop
Eco Darkroom Series: Phytogram Printing Workshop
Learn the interesting alternative eco darkroom process of phytogram printing with artist Simone Darcy
Film Lab
The Canberra region’s longest running and friendliest film lab, offering a full service and competitive prices for all your film processing needs. We process all 35mm, medium format and large format b&w films, colour C-41, and E-6 slide film when there is enough demand. Scanning and digitising of your processed film is also available in our fully-equipped film lab.
Workshops
photo access offers a wide range of creative workshops, across digital and analogue photography, each professionally led by an experienced tutor or exhibiting artist.
Making Spaces
We offer a number of photographic facilities to develop your skills, and support your creativity including darkroom, film developing lab, digital suite and photobook library.
Call-Outs
Looking for a creative opportunity? photo access offers various opportunities to be involved in the community, including annual call outs for exhibitions, residencies, and projects, as well as for volunteers and internship positions.
Tutor Call-Out
photo access invites photographers and artists of all kinds to consider being a tutor!
First Nations Residency
photo access invites expressions of interest from First Nations artists to join our annual residency program.
Volunteer with us
Seeking volunteers!
Supporters
photo access‘s program and facilities are supported by the ACT Government through ArtsACT Arts Centre Investment Funding, and through generous business partnerships & philanthropic support.
