Fine Art Photography – 2025

Fine Art Photography – 2025

Last minute risk

As the students enter their final year of training at the ECAL, and their interests and methods take shape, it's time to take advantage of this last project to question our own rules, achievements and influences, not to be satisfied with them, and to take risks. 

Studio project (2025) by Maude Bally, Gabrielle Coué, Adel Debabéche, Sofia Grytsiv, Lester Kielstein, Inès Riber, Héloïse Tourrenc, Cedric Zellweger

Assistants
Gaétan Uldry
3rd year program
1st semester
Know-how
Documentary, Fiction
Adel Debabéche - ECAL

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Maude Bally - ECAL
Maude Bally - ECAL
Maude Bally - ECAL
Maude Bally - ECAL
Maude Bally - ECAL

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Inès Riber - ECAL
Inès Riber - ECAL
Inès Riber - ECAL
Inès Riber - ECAL

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