About · Lens Room

Photography class reviewing contact sheets together

A room for looking

Lens Room opened as a school, not as a side door on a camera counter. The ground floor at Ben Yehuda 142 holds a long critique table, a window room for portraits, and a dark room used only with an instructor. Students arrive for a course, not to browse bags and batteries.

We keep the groups small because the work is physical: walking the street, standing at a table of objects, sitting a person in window light, then reading the contact sheet the next session. If you need a space for a commercial shoot, this is the wrong address. If you want six weeks of looking, it is the right one.

Darkroom trays used during still-life printing classes

What the rooms are for

The street door is the first classroom. The still-life table faces a north window so the fruit does not cook under spots. The portrait window looks onto the boulevard; we use a reflector, not a ceiling of lights. The dark room takes one class at a time.

Print chemistry stays in labeled bottles on our shelf. We teach the sequence we use here — gloves, ventilation, trays, wash — as part of the still-life course. We do not issue professional handling licenses. We do not pretend a six-week school replaces workplace training.

Maya Azulay

Maya leads Daylight Street. She works with a medium-format camera on the same blocks the class walks: shop fronts, bus stops, the pause under a ficus. Her notes are about where you stand, not about collecting lenses.

Before each outing she sets a constraint — one block, one hour of light, one distance to the subject — so the contact sheet the following week can be read as a decision, not a pile of almosts.

Her street course

Eli Haber

Eli teaches Dark-Room Still Life. He meters the window before anyone moves a lemon. In the dark room he wants a quiet tray line and a print you can hold at the table the same evening if the wash is done with care.

He will tell you what we mix and why the timer is set where it is. He will not sell you a certificate. The point is a still photograph that survives as paper.

His still-life course

Noa Ben-Ami

Noa runs Portrait Window Light. She treats the sitter as a person who has somewhere else to be after class, which is why sessions stay short and the talk stays specific: chin, shoulder, the edge of the window frame.

Students photograph each other and, on two evenings, a guest who has agreed to sit. Noa keeps the reflector in the room so you learn one tool well instead of a catalog of modifiers.

Her portrait course

Address and hours

Ben Yehuda 142, Tel Aviv-Yafo. The desk faces the street.

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

October 2026 follows those hours. Ring 03-544-8090 if the shutter is down for a class in the dark room — someone will come to the door between trays.

What we are not

We are not a camera shop. We do not keep a wall of bodies for sale. Bring the camera you already use, film or digital.

We are not a rental studio. The rooms stay with the courses. If you need lights for a client, look elsewhere on the street.

Ask the desk if you are unsure which course fits. desk@lensroom.pro is read during the hours above.