At 2M ZONE, learning photography means understanding the process behind the image.
Our workshops and educational programmes combine hands-on practice with an understanding of materials, chemistry, light, and photographic techniques. From historical and alternative processes to analogue and contemporary photography, we focus on learning through making, experimenting, and developing the confidence to work independently.
Whether through a group workshop, individual training, or a programme developed for an institution or festival, our approach is centred on direct experience, experimentation, and the exchange of knowledge.
WET PLATE COLLODION
Ambrotype · Historical Photographic Process
Ambrotype · Historical Photographic Process
Discover one of photography’s earliest photographic processes through direct, hands-on practice — from preparing and sensitising the plate to exposure, development, fixing, and the finished ambrotype.
SALTed paper PRINT
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING PROCESS
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING PROCESS
Explore one of photography’s earliest paper-based printing processes through direct, hands-on practice, from preparing and sensitising the paper to exposure, processing, and the finished salt print.
CYANOTYPE
HISTORICAL & alternative photographic process
HISTORICAL & alternative photographic process
Discover the distinctive blue of one of photography’s earliest printing processes through direct, hands-on practice — from preparing and coating the paper to exposure, washing, and the finished cyanotype.
b&w film photography
analogue photography & darkroom process
analogue photography & darkroom process
Experience the complete analogue photographic process — from shooting black-and-white film and developing your negatives to working in the darkroom and producing your own silver gelatin prints.
MORDANCAGE
EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHIC process
EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHIC process
Explore the transformative possibilities of Mordançage through direct, hands-on practice — working with silver gelatin prints to bleach, alter, and physically manipulate the photographic image into a unique, one-of-a-kind print.