Humans Have Bodies

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Humans Have Bodies

Humans Have Bodies, workshop with the Swiss artist Maya Rochat. Projects realised by the first year students of the Photography unit during a one week workshop. The workshop was based on the novel "Sapiens" by historian and author Yuval Noah Harari. "100.000 years ago, the earth was inhabited by at least six different species of hominids. Only one survived. We, the Homo Sapiens" Each student had to interpret a chapter of the book relatively to her/his personal work.

Workshop (2020) with Maya Rochat

Humans Have Bodies, workshop with the Swiss artist Maya Rochat. Projects realised by the first year students of the Photography unit during a one week workshop.

The workshop was based on the novel "Sapiens" by historian and author Yuval Noah Harari. "100.000 years ago, the earth was inhabited by at least six different species of hominids. Only one survived. We, the Homo Sapiens"

Each student had to interpret a chapter of the book relatively to her/his personal work.

Résultat du workshop avec Maya Rochat
Still image, ECAL/Gwendoline Albasini
Still image, ECAL/Antoine Woeffray
Still image, ECAL/Matteo Angelé
Still image, ECAL/Nita  Sejdaj
Still image, ECAL/Gaétan Uldry
Still image, ECAL/Flurina  Ramondetto
Still image, ECAL/Noa Chevalley
Still image, ECAL/Louis Michel
Still image, ECAL/Ulises Lozano
Still image, ECAL/Tony Altermatt

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Still image, ECAL/Samuel Spreyz
Still image, ECAL/Stéphane Bonard
Still image, ECAL/Léa Sblandano
Still image, ECAL/Bérénice Cauchois
Still image, ECAL/Yan Miranda
Still image, ECAL/Sara De Brito Faustino
Still image, ECAL/Antoine  Massari
Still image, ECAL/Valerie  Geissbühler
Still image, ECAL/Eloïse Genoud
Still image, ECAL/Oliver Kümmerli

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