Lens Room

A photography school on Ben Yehuda

Three in-person courses, one street-level school. We teach daylight street work, still life that ends in the dark room, and portraits made beside a window — not camera retail, and not a room you rent by the hour.

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Photographer working with a film camera on a sunlit Tel Aviv boulevard

Daylight street

The course starts on the pavement outside our door. Ben Yehuda throws hard noon, open shade under awnings, and that last hour when shop lights come on. You learn to stand still long enough to see which of those three is actually on the frame.

We walk as a small group. You keep your own camera — film or digital — and we talk before you raise it: distance to a doorway, whether a scooter in the curb lane helps, when to wait for a passerby to leave. It is a school week, not a sightseeing loop.

Street course
Classroom still-life table with a camera, fruit, and a ceramic bowl beside a window

Dark-room still life

Inside, the subject is a table: fruit, glass, cloth, a camera used as an object. You build the arrangement, photograph it, then take a chosen frame into the dark room and make a print. The two rooms belong to the same class.

We teach gloves, ventilation, tray order, and how to wash a print so it can leave the building. That is workshop practice in our rooms — not a license, not a certificate from a ministry, and not a chemistry lecture for its own sake.

Still-life course
Portrait session beside a tall window with a reflector and an instructor

Portrait window light

One window on the street side is enough. Sitters face the glass or turn a few degrees off it; a white reflector fills the shadow you actually want to keep. We do not build a fashion set. We learn how a face changes when a cloud passes.

Classes stay small so the person in the chair is not performing for a crowd. You rotate as photographer and sitter. Notes go on paper, not into a rented studio booking calendar.

Portrait course
Students and an instructor reviewing black-and-white contact sheets at a classroom table

Contact sheets first

A week at Lens Room is a loop: shoot, make a contact sheet or a work print, then sit at the long table and look. We talk about what is on the paper before we talk about taste. Loupes stay on the table. Phones stay in bags during the look.

This is why we are a school and not a room for hire. The rooms stay open for enrolled groups. Desk hours for October 2026 are posted on every page if you want to visit before you enroll.

How the school works
Darkroom trays and hanging prints under red safelight

The dark room is a classroom

Trays, a timer, a line for drying prints: the dark room at Ben Yehuda 142 is sized for a class, not for walk-in printing. You enter with an instructor. You leave with a print that has been washed and a note about what to try next week.

We name the materials we use in the room and we keep the language practical. If you need a formal workplace qualification for photographic chemicals, that lives outside this school. Here you learn to work carefully in our trays.

Student work

October 2026 hours

The desk is on the street level at Ben Yehuda 142, Tel Aviv-Yafo.

  • Sunday–Thursday 09:00–18:00
  • Friday 09:00–13:00
  • Saturday closed

Call 03-544-8090 or write desk@lensroom.pro. Courses start from the same desk — we do not sell camera bodies, and we do not rent the rooms by the hour.

Enroll from the desk

Tell us which course you want and a day you can visit Ben Yehuda 142. The desk confirms the place by phone.

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