The Art House begins a new international collaboration with Fotohane Darkroom, a participatory arts project using analogue photography to work with children and young people living near the Türkiye–Syria–Iraq border regions. Founded by photographers Serbest Salih and Amar Kılıç, Fotohane creates spaces where children can learn photography, develop their own images, and share their experiences through visual storytelling.

This collaboration will begin with a carefully curated presentation of hand-printed photographs, produced in our Darkroom using original negatives of photographs taken by children, documenting their everyday lives, relationships, surroundings, and imaginations, offering a self-authored view of the world shaped by memory, play, and lived experience.

At the heart of this partnership is a shared commitment to analogue process, storytelling, and access to creative tools, alongside a wider commitment to supporting people and making a meaningful difference in the lives of local, migrant, and sanctuary-seeking communities. Presented alongside contextual material about Fotohane’s work and approach, the exhibition marks the first step in a longer-term ambition for a “twinning-style” collaboration between the two organisations.