Darkroom Learning

Explore black-and-white analogue photography through hands-on, one-to-one darkroom lessons.

Halide Studios offers private instruction tailored to your experience level, whether you’re starting with film developing, building confidence in printing, or completing a full workflow from film to finished print.

- Private, tailored instruction at your own pace

- Hands-on guidance from professional artists and photographers

- Access to fully equipped, artist-run darkroom facilities

- Learn process literacy, not just steps, build confidence to work independently

After you have learnt how to use the darkroom then you can rent our darkroom and work independently.

Hands work over a photographic developing tray under red safelight in a darkroom, gently agitating black-and-white prints as images slowly emerge in the chemical bath, conveying hands-on learning and traditional analogue photographic processes.

Our Private Lesson Offers

Under red safelight in a darkroom, hands hold a developing tank beside a stainless-steel sink, with film chemicals and tools arranged nearby, illustrating hands-on instruction in black-and-white film developing.

INTRO TO B & W FILM DEVELOPING

NZ$150

Hands carefully place a photographic negative into a negative carrier beside an enlarger, with contact sheets laid out on a workbench, illustrating one-on-one instruction in analogue darkroom printing.

INTRO TO DARKROOM PRINTING ONE ON ONE

NZ$250

Photographic contact sheets being processed in a red-lit darkroom at Halide Studios during an intro to darkroom printing class, showing hands-on analogue photography training in Raglan

INTRO TO B&W FILM DEVELOPING

AND PRINTING ONE ON ONE

NZ$350

INTRO TO B & W FILM DEVELOPING

NZ$150

INTRO TO DARKROOM PRINTING ONE ON ONE

NZ$250

INTRO TO B&W FILM DEVELOPING

AND PRINTING ONE ON ONE

NZ$350

VIDEO WORKSHOP DEVELOPING YOUR FILM WITH PLANTS

NZ$30

Intro to Shooting / Camera Basics

NZ$135

A facilitator sits at a table set with plant material, containers, film-developing tools, and chemicals, speaking to camera in a studio space, introducing a video workshop on experimental film developing using plants.

VIDEO WORKSHOP DEVELOPING YOUR FILM WITH PLANTS

NZ$30

Intro to shooting and camera basics workshop at Halide Studios, showing a handheld light meter, medium-format film camera, and rolls of black-and-white film used in darkroom photography learning.

Intro to Shooting / Camera Basics

NZ$135

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Halide Studios.All Rights Reserved.