Fine Art Photography

Fine Art Photography

Documenteur – The Power of the Fake

Based on projects developed around a common theme, students create a personal and in-depth body of work exploring the notion of deception. They build a project that plays with the boundaries of photographic truth, using the medium as an artifice of lies.

Studio project (2025) by Martin Antherieu, Paul Berthon, Louise Botti Balaguer, Nastasia Crohas-Beselia, Simon Devillers, Janne Edel, Mateo Friedrich, Léa Huguenin, Luca Humm, Dahui Jeon, Bogdan Kulyk, Natasha Saccardi, Adriana Saint-Wilkolek, Landelin Schaub, Lucie Schrag, Nicolas Tripod, Riccardo Troia, Janine Agbayani, Juliette Peletier

Assistants
Sara De Brito Faustino
1st year program
2nd semester
Know-how
Documentary, Fiction

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Fine Art Photography

BA PHOTOGRAPHY

Fine Art Photography

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