Two exciting days to fully immerse yourself in the images, your own but also those of others, two days that will also allow you to find the right words to talk about your own work.

Thanks to small exercises and time for discussion and editing, Martine Ravache will guide the participants in their understanding of the images. It will be a question of observing, identifying, comparing or even detecting a style, an approach, a message, a technique...

The objective will be to train one's gaze, to take a little distance and then to hatch words.

The challenge will then be to compose your own lexical field in which it will be easy to come and draw words from it to compose a title, an oral presentation, a text or a declaration of intent that necessarily accompanies visual works.

Speaking French is highly recommended

Martine Ravache 
A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, Martine Ravache has been a critic and specialist in photography since her debut at Literary Magazine in 1991.

Curator of the exhibition “Lartigue in La Baule; 1913-1929", summer 2017, at the Bernard Boesch Museum in La Baule, curator of the exhibition "J.H Lartigue: Life in Colors" in 2015 at the European House of Photography in Paris, she is also the author of seven books about or based on photography.

Regards paranoïaques (Editions du Canoë, novembre 2019),
J.H Lartigue : La vie en couleurs (Editions du Seuil, 2015 / traduction américaine chez Abrams et allemande chez Schirmer Mosel),
Baie attitude (Editions Patrimoines médias, 2013),
Les Sudre, une famille de photographes (Editions Delpire, 2010),
Les années cool (Editions du Panama, 2006),
L’album photo des Français (éditions du Chêne, 2004),
Le fleuve des sables (Editions du Chêne, 2002).