Good work, properly looked after
Developing and scanning photographs is something we take seriously. Your film passes through real hands here in the lab and we care about getting it right.
About Take It Easy
We’re Take It Easy
Take It Easy is a family-run film lab built by a group of friends who share a deep love for analogue photography. What started as a passion project has grown into a creative hub where people come not just to process their film, but to connect.
Lab life
A film lab built around people
We want film photography to feel approachable whether you’ve been shooting for twenty years or just loaded your first roll.
No gatekeeping
Photography can be confusing enough already. We share what we know, explain things in plain English and never expect you to know all the answers before you walk through the door.
More than processing
Take It Easy is also a place for photographers to meet, learn, exhibit work, join events and be part of something beyond simply sending a roll away.
Meet the team
The people developing, scanning, printing, packing, answering emails and generally keeping Take It Easy moving.
Hannah
Rose
Liam
Nick
Jake
Kate
Grant
Mhairi
Joe
Dan
How we got here
It didn’t exactly happen overnight.
The story starts back in 2008, when Liam finished a Photography degree in Leeds and started working at Snappy Snaps. That’s where he met Nick, another person who was just as into film.
When the shop closed, Liam bought the old film processor. In 2011, Liam, Nick and Joe started a tiny lab called No Culture Icons Developing from a friend’s space.
It lasted about six months before life took everyone in different directions. The machine went into storage, but the idea never really disappeared.
Then in 2020 Nick mentioned the machine again. They dug it back out, started rebuilding, and Take It Easy Lab began.
Back when some of us had more hair
2008
Liam starts working in a photo lab in Leeds and meets Nick.
2011
No Culture Icons Developing opens with Liam, Nick and Joe.
2020
The old processor comes back out of storage and Take It Easy begins.
Now
A full team processing film for photographers in Leeds and much
further afield.
The community bit
Film photography is better when people share it.
We run events, workshops, socials and projects that give photographers an excuse to meet each other, learn something and make more work.
Come say hello
Visit us in Leeds or send us your next roll.
Whether you’re dropping film at the counter or posting it from the other end of the country, we’d love to see what you’ve been shooting.
