Staged Photography – 2025

Staged Photography – 2025

SCREENPLAY

This course introduces students to the creation of a seven-image series built around the theme Screenplay. They will learn to combine set design, characters, and lighting to produce strong, coherent staged images. Through a practical and technical approach, the course develops their ability to conceive and manage a complete photographic project, direct models, work with natural and artificial light, and collaborate under conditions similar to professional editorial or commercial shoots. Students will refine their photographic vision while preparing for the creative and technical demands of the industry.

Studio project (2025) by Martin Antherieu, Paul Berthon, Louise Botti Balaguer, Nastasia Crohas-Beselia, Simon Devillers, Janne Edel, Mateo Friedrich, Léa Huguenin, Dahui Jeon, Luca Humm, 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
Imagemaking, Fiction, Editorial, Still life
Janne Edel - ECAL
Janne Edel - ECAL
Janne Edel - ECAL
Janne Edel - ECAL

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Bogdan Kulyk - ECAL
Bogdan Kulyk - ECAL
Bogdan Kulyk - ECAL

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Luca Humm - ECAL
Luca Humm - ECAL
Luca Humm - ECAL
Luca Humm - ECAL

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Projects related to Still life

Staged Photography – 2026

BA PHOTOGRAPHY

Staged Photography – 2026

with Charlotte Krieger

Unseen This course introduces students to the creation of a seven-image series built around the theme Unseen. They will learn to combine set design, characters, and lighting to produce strong, coherent staged images. Through a practical and technical approach, the course develops their ability to conceive and manage a complete photographic project, direct models, work with natural and artificial light, and collaborate under conditions similar to professional editorial or commercial shoots. Students will refine their photographic vision while preparing for the creative and technical demands of the industry.

Workshop with Thomas Rousset

BA PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

ECAL x Moncler

BA PHOTOGRAPHY

ECAL x Moncler

with Philippe Jarrigeon

Drawing on Moncler’s Alpine heritage, its timeless style, and its technical mastery, the ECAL Bachelor Photography students developed their own interpretation of the brand’s visual language, blending documentary photography with staged scenes, and merging reality with fiction, under the artistic direction of French photographer Philippe Jarrigeon. As part of Paris Photo 2025, the students’ work was showcased at the Moncler boutique on the Champs-Élysées.

Contextual Design – BA2 S2 2026

BA GRAPHIC DESIGN

Contextual Design – BA2 S2 2026

with Adeline Mollard

  Genius Loci, or the spirit of the place, refers to the unique identity or essence of a location. In architecture, this principle suggests that the specific characteristics of a place should be reflected and extended in a design. In the case of the second-year graphic design students, they have applied this principle to communication projects focused on promoting or extending the identity of a particular place through design. Their work likely explores how to visually capture and communicate the essence of a space, using graphic design elements that resonate with the architectural features or history of the place.    

PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE – 2023

BA PHOTOGRAPHY

PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE – 2023

with Maxime Guyon

"Sculpture" is an intentionally broad theme to give this semester project in order to stimulate experimentation and freedom of realization. Sculpture is an artistic medium that allows for the realization of volume forms forms in volume thanks to innumerable techniques that have been used since the Paleolithic era to our contemporary society. This is an ambitious project where each student will have to complete a series of images highlighting their creations through advanced techniques of composition and light in the studio. Creating a sculpture is for some artists, for others it is a spontaneous way to elaborate a body of spontaneous way to develop a body of work.

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