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:: SUMMER SESSION : PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS
The summer program is designed for beginners, amateurs and photography students alike. The various workshops deal with all the major aspects of modern photography: theory and practice, from past to present.
Students may enroll for the full summer program or choose one or several workshops, depending on their own interests.
:: Courses:
-> Black & White Printing - The Stop-System
-> Introduction to Studio Photography
-> Commercial Photography
-> Portrait Photography
-> Photojournalism - News
-> Photojournalism - Documentary
-> Visual Identity
-> Computer Lab
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These 2 workshops are not part of the full summer program:
-> In the Steps of Talbot, Herschel and Bayard
-> The Beginnings of Photography: Heliography and Physautotype
-> Black & White Printing - the Stop-System
- 5 days - 15h
- June 21 - 25, 2010
© Iris Hrasovec |
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This workshop presents black & white darkroom techniques, using the Stop System, a visual method invented at Spéos to understand and control the printing process. The course covers film exposure and development, the use of different photo papers, as well as print retouching. Working from their own film negatives, participants also explore advanced printing techniques, especially for fine arts prints. By the end of the week, each participant will be able to judge a print’s quality and to produce good black & white pictures. A film camera is indispensable.
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-> Introduction to Studio Photography
- 5 days - 15h
- June 21 - 25, 2010
- 4 days - 15h
- July 12 - 16, 2010
© Nikolai Wiezorek |
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In this practically-oriented workshop, participants are introduced to the techniques of studio photography: use of studio equipment, electronic flashes, basic studio lighting techniques, large format cameras, stop system. The course is based on intensive studio practice.
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-> Commercial Photography
- 5 days - 15h
- July 5 - 9, 2010
- 5 days - 15h
- July 19 - 23, 2010
© Natalia KhengJu |
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This workshop is open to participants with previous studio experience (for example after the workshop Introduction to Studio). Everyday a different commercial studio topic is introduced (basic packshot, metal, glass, culinary, use of different formats, etc.).
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-> Portrait Photography
- 5 days - 15h
- July 5 - 9, 2010
- 5 days - 15h
- July 19 - 23, 2010
© Christian Boulliaux |
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This workshop is open to participants with previous studio experience (for example after the workshop Introduction to Studio). By shooting portraits that reflect their own sensitivity, participants aim at developing their self-expression. They learn to optimize shooting parameters such as lighting, lenses, cameras, so as to exploit their creative potential to its best.
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-> Photojournalism - News
- 5 days - 15h
- June 28 - July 2, 2010
© Michael Sawyer |
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This workshop presents the main aspects of a news reportage: the photographer as a witness, the picture that tells a story, the information that completes the picture. Current techniques and tools of photojournalists will be discussed as well as how to select and publish reportages, how to contact newspapers’ and magazine publishers. The training includes practical exercises.
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-> Photojournalism - Documentary
- 4 days - 15h
- July 12 - 16, 2010
© Anne-Sophie Dikansky |
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This workshop presents the different aspects of a photographic essay: the construction on the long term of a story through pictures – the protagonists, the context, what is at stake. Current techniques and tools of photojournalists will be discussed as well as how to contact publishers. The training includes practical exercises.
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-> Visual Identity
- 5 days - 15h
- June 28 - July 2, 2010
© Pierre Phérivong - Sara Davis |
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In this workshop participants develop their visual awareness by analyzing the composition of pictures by well-established photographers. Then, moving from the analysis of light, space and object-reality to practical work, the participants experiment with their own visual creativity and shooting techniques.
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-> Computer Lab
- 5 days - 15h
- July 19 - 23, 2010
© Meggan Gould |
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This workshop is an introduction to the digital imaging techniques necessary to meet current market demands. Participants learn how to retouch and transform digital photos with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
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-> In the Steps of Talbot, Herschel and Bayard
- 5 days - 15h
- June 28 - July 2, 2010
© Pierre-Yves Mahe |
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Using the procedures from the first photographic processes, participants rediscover the magic when light strikes sensitized paper. In contact with flowers, lacework or negatives the paper darkens and takes on different shades, depending on the chemicals used. A historical approach to the beginnings of photography, this workshop permits participants to discover different methods of printing, allowing for their own photographic experiments.
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-> The Beginnings of Photography: Heliography and Physautotype
- 2 days - 8 hours
- June 15 & 16, 2010
© Pierre-Yves Mahe |
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In 1816, Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) began experimenting on the chemical fixation of photographs made with a camera obscura. It took him eight years to develop heliography, the very first photographic process to secure permanent images. He also invented the first photomechanical process allowing him to reproduce and print images. In 1829, Niépce started collaborating with Louis Daguerre, and three years later, they invented a second photographic process: the physautotype.
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In this course, participants assist Jean-Louis Marignier – the first researcher to rediscover these photographic processes – in the production of heliographs (on copper or silver plates coated with bitumen of Judea), as well as physautotypes (on silver plates coated with the residue of lavender oil distillation). These reproductions allow the participants to visualize certain aspects of the world’s first photographs and to understand the origins of subsequent photographic processes, such as the Daguerreotype invented by Daguerre after Niépce’s death.
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