MV Photo Labs cofounders Jim Megargee and Cornelia van der Linde have a wealth of knowledge and experience in all aspects of photography including; film, equipment, lighting, exposure, developing, editing, fine printing, archiving, conservation and photo history. They have taught workshops in these areas in New York, Maine and Italy for the last sixteen years.

MV Photo Labs NYC provides the highest quality of hand processing, fine printing and retouching services. MV serves top photography professionals in the field as well as amateurs and hobbyists looking to advance their technique. MV Labs specializes in; books, exhibition and portfolio printing, magazine reproduction as well as your personal work. MV Photo Labs also provides extensive consultation services in all aspects of photography and conservation as well aiding photographers who are looking for a specific technique or look to their final images or project.

Jim Megargee

Jim Megargee,is not only the co-owner and co-founder he is the Master printer and the technical consultant at MV Labs as well as an active documentary photographer. Jim is presently working on a collection of his life work for exhibition and a book. Jim Megargee was director of the Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, Florida for six years. He then Director of Photography at Modesto Community College in California for the two years following. He then moved to Rochester, N.Y., to accept a professorship of photography at Rochester Institute of Technology. Jim taught all aspects of photography at R.I.T. from 1983 until 1989 . At which time he became Annie Leibovitz's in-house Master printer for four years. Jim went on to co found MV Labs with Cornelia four years later. Jim truly is a scientist and artist dedicated to continuing discovery about the medium. Jim has and is current lecturing and sharing his work at lectures for colleges, organizations, workshops, and camera clubs and many other forums.

Jim also teaches various workshops in photography in New York City, Italy and the Maine Photographic Workshops. In their commitment to education MV Labs offers internships for young adults, aspiring photographers and those simply interested in learning more about photography.

Jim processes all the film himself by had and via infrared goggles in order to make any adjustment in development if needed. There is no extra charge for this personal and time consuming process.

Cornelia van der Linde

Cornelia is currently acting President and CEO of MV Labs, Workshops & Archival Supplies Inc, as well as owner and founder. Cornelia graduated from the renowned Rochester Institute of Technology in 1989. After three years of assisting the best photographers in New York City, she became a staff photographer at the New York City School Construction Authority. In 1991 she joined famed photographer Annie Leibovitzs' staff as an assistant printer, leaving in 1994 to create MV Labs . Cornelia is also a master printer at MV Photo Labs.

Cornelia photographs exclusively with homemade pinhole cameras outfitted with polaroid backs. Everything is hand held ranging to a few seconds to several minutes, even hours. She primarily photographs trees, foliage, landscapes and nudes. She is now expanding that work to include NYC cityscapes.

Cornelia first participated in a group exhibition in New York City at gallery 49 in 1999. She had a solo exhibition of this work in Geneva, Switzerland in the fall of 2003. Cornelia next took part in a group exhibition at MV Photo Gallery in NYC featuring the works of renowned artists as Helen Bodian, Julia Calfee, Akira Nishida, Ellen Warner and Melenie Wells from 14 July 2006 a through 8 September 2006. From 2007 until Dec. 2009 Cornelia's pinhole work has been in numerous group shows in and around NYC.

CBS Television has used Cornelia's pinhole images for its' 2005 series "Love Monkey" as well as for the national hit series"Kidnapped", staring Timothy Hutton for its 2006 fall line up. CBS choose Cornelia's work as images for the set design of the star's homes. They felt "the quiet, simplistic beauty complimented the sets in a way that was both beautiful background decoration for the high end homes they replicated and filmed at, yet not distracting to the action and plot of the series."

Cornelia's has been purchased and shown by many different private collectors and galleries throughout the world.

"Cornelia van der Linde uses a handmade, handheld 3x4 pinhole cameras with black and white Polaroid 665 film. Cornelia explores the dreamy tropical landscape. Her photographs, soft focus and tranquil evoke familiar memories that are tangential to actual experience. Her pinhole image which include many different countries, have been widely exhibited and are in numerous public and private collections." (gallery@49) 

MV Labs has a great support staff with a multitude of different talents. Each individual brings his or her growing expertise and, dedication and hard work in making us achieve our high standards.

Interns are an integral part of MV Labs and a great asset.

They are generous with their time, hard working and prove to be committed to learning . 

We rely on them heavily to produce the high quality work MV does so consistently.

To them, 100's, over the last 17 years we are deeply grateful.