Documenting DETROIT

04/01/2026

Documenting DETROIT, Inside Southwest Detroit & the Avis Street Photo Studio are excited to introduce a Darkroom 101 class. It will take place over two sessions:

Session one: Black and White Film Processing

Friday April 17th, 2026 6-9pm
• This session will introduce you to processing your own black and white film. Bring a completed roll of 35mm film.

Session two: Contact Sheets and Darkroom Prints

Friday April 24th, 2026 6-10pm
• This session will familiarize you with enlargers, contact sheets, and making a darkroom print.

To participate, you must attend both sessions.

Class fee: $300

Class will be lead by Amas Muhammad on Instagram, [email protected]

https://calendly.com/gabrielabaginski/avis-street-photo-studio-darkroom-101

03/27/2026

Celebrate Detroit Photographers!

12/23/2024

Do you have friends and family coming to visit for the holidays and need a place to put them up? Please consider Documenting Detroit’s Airbnb in Corktown! Building has its own parking lot and it’s so close to everything. Any proceeds after expenses supports our non-profit programming, including the analog darkroom we’ve launched in Southwest Detroit!

Corktown Detroit Brick + Beam Beauty Artist Loft!

12/03/2024

Please join us at the Detroit Institute of Arts this Saturday 12/7 and we will photograph you in our Pop-Up Photo Studio and gift you a 5x7 print on the spot! While supplies last, in collaboration with Inside Southwest Detroit :)

The Detroit Institute of the Arts is located in Detroit’s cultural corridor. Our address is 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.

04/25/2024

Please join Documenting DETROIT co-founder, photographer Alan Chin, for an evening at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Thursday, May 2 at 6 PM! The DIA is free to all residents of Metro Detroit's three counties. To see more and put it in your calendar --->

The Detroit Institute of the Arts is located in Detroit’s cultural corridor. Our address is 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202.

04/12/2024

🎉🎂 A very happy 53rd birthday to Alan Chin, copilot of Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA) and the Documenting DETROIT project! For 53 hours (aka through Sunday morning), he’s donating birthday sale proceeds of his book, ‘Infinity Goes Up On Trial’ (with cover art by his daughter Hannah, shown in Alan’s photo in this post), to Documenting DETROIT, and we’ll have big developments coming for that project in the next few months. Help Alan celebrate and snag a copy of the book at the link! 🎂 🎉

https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=H7RXD3KJNW2W2

02/22/2024

Freep Film Festival’s opening film has been announced— ‘Rouge’ is a documentary that follows the winningest high school basketball team in Michigan state history, and was produced by DD Alum Razi Jafri! Get your tickets to see the film, on April 10 at the Detroit Film Theatre.

The 11th annual documentary film festival will take place in April at the Detroit Film Theatre, inside the Detroit Institute of Arts.

02/19/2024

Photographer Amy Sacka (2016 DD Alum) and Detroit Free Press Visuals Editor Kathy Kieliszewski (DD friend, mentor, and Board member) paired up to bring Amy’s “Love Letters to Belle Isle” to the press! Over 700 letters were collected and a selection of them are shown alongside a thoughtful edit of Amy’s thousands of photos of the island park. What’s the thing you love most about Belle Isle? Tell us in the comments!

02/16/2024

Happy 75 to our favorite radio station, WDET 101.9FM!

Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET celebrated its 75th anniversary as a community service during an event at the Jam Handy.

02/08/2024

We’re thrilled to hear that 2018 Doc Detroit Alum Shiraz Ahmed, director of the documentary Alive in Detroit, has been selected to participate in NBCU Academy’s Original Voices Accelerator!

This program and funding will help complete his documentary feature this year, and connect the film to programmers and broadcasters who can get it on screens around the world.

Congratulations, Shiraz!!!