Participants in this intensive three-day course will explore the gypsy festival in Saintes Maries de la Mer, a small town near Arles: a unique event when various communities come to honor their patron saint, black Sarah.

Participants will work on various devices, in natural or artificial light, seeking to faithfully transcribe the existing world or to create new ones by using accessories and adding new light sources.

Participants in this three-day course will take stock of their photographic practice by identifying what works, what doesn’t and what can be improved, experimenting to narrow down choices (distance, technique, subject, etc.).

Whether the light is natural or artificial, the participants will explore various aspects of the photographic portrait through the experimentation of diverse technical devices and shooting conditions.

Le temps d’un week-end, Arles sera le terrain de jeu idéal pour dépasser les aspects techniques d’une réalisation afin de se concentrer sur la manière de construire un point de vue qui soit personnel.

Les participants s’exerceront sur divers dispositifs, en lumière naturelle ou artificielle, cherchant à retranscrire fidèlement des univers présents ou à en créer par l’utilisation d’accessoires, l’ajout de nouvelles sources lumineuses. L’objectif sera de chercher à dépasser les contraintes techniques pour basculer vers une démarche prenant en compte la sensibilité de chacun... → lire la suite

Portrait photography is a vast area encompassing many practices, but it always aims to capture a person’s features by taking account of his or her environment, emotions and status. This three-day course will take various approaches to help participants steer their work towards what matches their desires and personalities. It will explore distance, lighting and time management.

This three-day course primarily targets photographers wishing to take a first step towards publishing or to deepen their approach by experimenting with a dummy book as a new way of perceiving their work.

This photographic immersion into the heart of the Camargue for an exciting weekend of encounters and discoveries will help participants develop a personal style. Between documentary and sensitive research, they will travel by mini-bus through an extremely interesting photography playground to deliver their vision of these vast spaces and the people alongside them.

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