This workshop offers participants the opportunity to enter the space of photography as if within a staged and rewritten framework. Starting from an existing image – drawn from art history, current events, or the press – it will not be about reproducing but about reactivating: reinterpreting, subverting, reperforming, and relocating.
Participants will work in groups to foster collaboration and leverage the strengths of each individual. During a research and scouting phase, they will be asked to identify a space, imagine or revisit a scene, select or design costumes, or even create objects – in order to build an image thought out in its smallest details. The image will thus be understood as a critical space where each element – far from being neutral – carries a function, a symbolic charge, and a power of meaning.
The workshop is open to both students with technical photography knowledge and those without. Regardless of their initial skill level, it will allow participants to understand the creation of an image over time, by engaging with the demands of various stages, from shooting to postproduction, using Adobe's software suite.
The final project – three large printed photographs – will serve as a point of culmination, but not as an endpoint in itself. The true focus lies in the process: experimenting with photography as a medium of translation, transgression, and reinvention, while exploring the collective potential of group work.
The workshop requires participants to bring an laptops with the Lightroom and Photoshop (Adobe Suite) software installed. A modest financial contribution may be requested for printing the final images, which can be done at the school.
The evaluation is based on participation in the five days of the workshop and on the degree of active engagement of the student.