Workshop Digital Medium Format

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Workshop Digital Medium Format

Beauty shot

The week-long Medium format digital workshop is both an introduction to shooting equipment and dedicated software. Students worked in groups to produce portrait images.

Studio project (2024) with Anoush Abrar

Assistants
Gaétan Uldry
Students
Janine Agbayani, Salomé Billato, Lee Eggenschwiler, Vittorio Franzolini, Antoine Genoud, Morea Gërxhaliu, Rose Graf, Léa Isoard, Farah Mirzayeva, Auriane Nicollier, Lara Niklas, Colas Ravey, Melanie Rengifo, Aline Savioz, Ashley Schneiter, Fanny Sherifi, Louise Tapponnier, Shiny Vallenas, Léna Voélin, Lucca Vogel, Sandra Teixeira
1st year program
1st semester
Know-how
Portrait
Janine Agbayani , Auriane Nicollier - ECAL

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Salomé Billato , Aline Savioz - ECAL

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Lee Eggenschwiler , Shiny Vallenas - ECAL

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Vittorio Franzolini , Léa Isoard - ECAL

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Antoine Genoud , Rose Graf , Louise Tapponnier - ECAL

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Farah Mirzayeva - ECAL

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Colas Ravey , Lucca Vogel - ECAL

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Morea Gërxhaliu - ECAL

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Ashley Schneiter - ECAL

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Constance Mauler – Club Kid

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Constance Mauler – Club Kid

by Constance Mauler

My project explores the Club Kid scene. Born in the 1980s in New York, this movement emerged as a radical response to artistic and social elitism. Led by queer and marginalized individuals, it transformed nightlife into a space of freedom, resistance, and self-invention. This publication aim to create a dialogue between the original generation of Club Kids and the contemporary scene, to show how this movement continues to challenge norms, invent new codes, and assert liberated identities. An immersion into a flamboyant and deeply political subculture.
Applied Photography – 2026

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Applied Photography – 2026

with Calypso Mahieu

Le temps des Fleurs This course, which is both practical and technical, requires students to develop a true photographer’s eye. Its goal is to introduce students to, or help them refine their skills in various photographic genres, such as still life, portraiture, and architecture, as well as documentary and staged photography. These disciplines demand particular attention and great precision in the selection of models, locations, and objects. Mastery of composition, framing, and the management of light, whether natural or artificial, is essential for a successful shot. Throughout the course, students are guided to refine their observational skills and their ability to create images that are both precise and expressive.        
Lidia Molina González – Toilet Break Magazine

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Lidia Molina González – Toilet Break Magazine

by Lidia Molina González

It all started with taking a break. A pause. A moment alone in a shared space: quiet, ordinary, a little strange. Toilets might not be the first place you’d look for big ideas, but that’s why we chose them. Toilet Break uses this overlooked space to explore how we live together, take space, and connect. This first issue is about in-betweens: between public and private, inside and outside. It gathers voices from Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, across generations and practices. A place where ideas circulate freely, where serious things can be said with a wink. A collective and personal space to test new editorial forms, listen more carefully, and believe in detours as a way forward. To take, quite literally, a moment to reflect and sit with things.
ECAL x Polaroid Foundation

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ECAL x Polaroid Foundation

with Douglas Mandry

This workshop brought together ECAL graduate artist Douglas Mandry, the Polaroid Foundation, and around thirty Bachelor Photography students. They had the exceptional opportunity to work with a camera that produces Polaroid films in a 40 × 60 cm format and weighs nearly 200 kg. This experience was made possible thanks to its operators, John Reuter and Harriet Browse, who introduced the students to the use of this unique device and the Polaroid Foundation team. Douglas Mandry provided the project’s artistic direction and supported the students in their experiments carried out directly with and on the films. The final result was presented as a collective exhibition on ECAL’s premises, revealing a particularly rich diversity of approaches and visions.
Workshop with Thomas Rousset

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Workshop with Thomas Rousset

with Thomas Rousset

The aim of this workshop is to explore the boundary between docu-fiction and magic realism in photography, using the architecture and spaces of the ECAL as a narrative framework. Both approaches are rooted in reality, but differ in the way they inject fiction.

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