About the Lab

Hi there! We’re Tristan and Maia, the owners of Traia Photolab – a professional photographic film lab based in South East London. We opened the lab in January 2020, but our love of film started before then when we were both put in the same darkroom printing group in our first year of university. Analogue photography became a huge part of our own artistic practice, and the technique followed us throughout our three years at Falmouth University. In our third year, we dreamt up the dream of opening a lab when we graduated with the intention of offering an affordable and personalised service that recent graduates can rely on to continue their practice after their studies. With a lot of planning, this is exactly what we did.