Claudine Doury's workshop is about using reality in the service of fiction. It will involve thinking about ways of interacting with reality in order to tell a story.

Participants will be asked to compose a fictional narrative based on their own way of seeing things and their interests and obsessions, using natural surroundings and the spirit of the place.

During this five-day course, photography will often take on the characteristics of a passport, a wonderful open-sesame to explore new places but also a delightful pretext to approach and meet others.

Participants in this course produce and edit images, find the right order and pace and create a series—a coherent narrative. Accompanied by Julien Magre, they will start out with their own reflections, questions and personal obsessions to construct a photographic story about their intimate relationship to the world.

This exciting course focuses on practice, a personal search and simple, sincere, open, adapted discussions allowing everybody to find his or her own portrait-making method.
Yann Rabanier will offer three main areas to work on: light, framing and the model’s direction. The first sessions will focus on each one relatively separately, setting out certain preferences, experimenting with new distances and imagining fresh approaches.

During these days, Arles will be the ideal playground to build a vision by working on a small personal series that will question the city, its spaces and its players, but also more broadly the participants’ photography.

This portrait workshop will focus on the practical, very concrete aspects inherent to any project.

In this exciting five-day course, Jane Evelyn Atwood leads participants in making a personal series—a stimulating experience in which they spell out their desires, explore a theme without getting lost in it and skillfully select their own photographs to tell a story. The course takes a learning-by-doing approach: participants can identify aspects they need to develop and deepen by enthusiastically, sincerely discussing the photographs taken each day.

It will be largely a question of sensitivity, of the relationship to what surrounds us but also of the relationship we have with photography. A step that will allow us to specify our desires, our stakes, and our personal objectives that will guide us throughout the day.

This exciting course will help participants sharpen their eye and draw the outlines of a personal photographic language. Ljubisa Danilovic will talk about his experiences, the relationship between photographer and photography and each participant’s goals, sensibilities, obsessions, pleasures and doubts.
The aim will be to realize a project, precising intentions, building a guideline. The goal will be to make a step beyond one's photo practice, during the workshop but also in a long term approach.

Five exciting days which will allow you to explore new photographic spaces with simplicity every day, an opportunity for everyone to step out of their comfort zone a little and try new paths, new approaches. Every day, through concrete instructions and practical advice, Jean-Christophe Béchet will invite participants to develop their practice

The quest will gradually become more personal and inward-looking in these repetitive alternations, contrasts and different atmospheres. Participants will be asked to dig deep down within themselves and find a common denominator based on their sensations and feelings in order to connect everyday experiences to one another, working on what characterizes their gaze, accompanying the sensibility that dictates distances, obsessions and detours.

The challenge of these five days will be to develop a photographic writing that is specific to us and to question through a personal realization the link to the body and to space, in substance and in form.