In a time where video has become the preferred medium of the generation and everything seems to be digitized and automated, a new program in the Bronx focuses on teaching a lost art.

Spearheaded by Suede Hunte, a self-taught photographer and Bronx resident, and his business partner, Pierre Guillet, filmmaker and media director of the Andrew Freedman Home (AFH), BXposure welcomes locals of all ages to their newly opened independent film lab and community darkroom.

“I started [at AFH] as an artist-in-residence in February,” Hunte said. “And then I gave a proposal like, ‘Hey, I want to start this up in the Bronx’ and they said, ‘Well, we've seen what you've been doing so, yea.”

With the support of the Andrew Freedman Home, the Mid-Bronx Senior Citizens Council and the Uptown Fine Arts Prin

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