This workshop will take place in an exceptional setting: the Brocher Foundation, located in a house by the Lake Léman. This place of life and work, both isolated and open, will foster exchanges and experiments, as well as theoretical and practical photographic reflections. The goal of the workshop is the production of a series of images, individual and/or collective, structured around stages of life.
It will be a collective experience of creation and reflection, in which the image will serve as a means to explore time, memory, materiality, and the relationship to the other. Throughout the week, the participant-e-x-s will produce a series of images that will both reflect on their own perspective and on how photography can give form to what lies beyond personal experience.
The objective goes beyond simply creating a body of work: the workshop engages a reflection on what it means to photograph the other in their alterity, to confront realities not lived, and to give visual form to what lies beyond immediate experience.
How do we use photography today? What are its social, scientific, or artistic uses? What are its limits and responsibilities? This axis will open a critical reflection on the conditions of image production and circulation in our contemporary society, in dialogue with bioethics and questions of representation. Beyond the image itself, what remains of a photographic act? A negative, a print, a digital file? This second axis will allow the participant-e-x-s to explore the materiality of the medium through concrete experiments: laboratory work, outdoor photograms, and work on various supports and formats.
The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop, the degree of active engagement of the participant and the submission, by each participant, of a series of photographs consisting of approximately 8 HD TIFF files at 300 dpi.