Workshop Paolo Wood

Workshop Paolo Wood

It has been established that photography is a language. With all its limitations and peculiarities, but a language anyway. Photography is often a relatively poor language that constantly repeats the same nouns and verbs. In the documentary tradition, the range of subjects treated is quite limited and recurrent, and for this reason, in order to make photographs, one must learn and master this language: its vocabulary, its grammar and its history.

Workshop (2021) by 2 BAPH, Gwendoline Albasini, Tony Altermatt, Matteo Angelé, Laure Brandford Griffith, Bérénice Cauchois, Yann Difford, Eloïse Genoud, Marie Häfner, Ulysse Martel, Inès Mermoud, Yan Miranda, Gaétan Uldry, Antoine Woeffray

It has been established that photography is a language. With all its limitations and peculiarities, but a language anyway. Photography is often a relatively poor language that constantly repeats the same nouns and verbs. In the documentary tradition, the range of subjects treated is quite limited and recurrent, and for this reason, in order to make photographs, one must learn and master this language: its vocabulary, its grammar and its history.

Students

Albasini Gwendoline , Altermatt Tony

Angelé Matteo, Brandford Griffith Laure

Cauchois Bérénice, Difford Yann

Genoud Eloïse, Häfner Marie

Lozano Ulises , Mermoud Inès

Miranda Yan, Uldry Gaétan

Woeffray Antoine

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ECAL / Ulises Lozano, Tony Altermatt

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