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Youngsters Workshops

Seminar

Ties That Bind

Young Arlesians gather wedding photographs from residents of the Barriol quarter. Supplementing this research, the youngsters photograph couples and families months and even decades after the knot was tied – kindling memories, dreams and traditions.

Project conducted in partnership with the Espace Familial de Vie de Barriol as part of the national government’s urban policy, with support from the Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur regional council and the Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture.

Clicks and Classes

“Clicks and classes” is a nationwide project designed to raise young people’s awareness of imagery through photographs.
Students from primary school through to higher education do several weeks’ work on the theme “from portraiture to class photography”. Guided by a photographer or visual artist, the students and their teachers analyse and reinvent traditional class photography, a “compulsory subject” in every school education since photography was invented. They thus rediscover this quasi-unchanging practice, which becomes the pretext for multiple explorations into ideas of memory, self-representation, belonging to a group, staging and so on, depending on each class’s project. This operation, now in its fifth year, will be gaining fresh impetus and reach more than twenty classes all over France. It provides an opportunity to reflect on the conventions and uses of photography, and possibly to awaken the desire to practise a form of art.

“Clicks and classes” is produced by SCEREN-CNDP (arts and culture department) with support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication (regional cultural-affairs directorates, development and international affairs department), the Ministry of Education and Research (general directorate of school teaching), the “photography” resource centres, the French National Library (BNF) and the Rencontres d’Arles.