Applied Photography - Spring 2025 - MAP1

Applied Photography - Spring 2025 - MAP1

This course explores contradiction, ambiguity, and authorship in photographic meaning and the role of aesthetics in shaping an image’s function across contexts. Photography operates in a complex space where visual style, context, and audience expectations interact to produce meaning. This course asks students to examine how photographic aesthetics influence interpretation and how an image’s function shifts when adapted for different applied photography frameworks.

This course explores contradiction and ambiguity in photographic meaning and the role of aesthetic conventions in shaping an image’s function across contexts.
Through the course, students will be expected to develop a coherent series of at least 10 images that applies a distinct treatment or aesthetic to a subject matter or multi-image narrative not typically represented in that style or aesthetic. Through this process, students will examine how visual codes, contextual shifts, and aesthetic strategies influence interpretation.

Studio project (2025) with Charlie Engman

Assistants
Tanguy Morvan
Students
Lóa Fenzy, Alix Debraine, Xiao Fu, Elisa Hampe, Binyu Lin, Zhiyue Liu, Andrey Lopatin, Thomas Martin, Gaia Pierobon, Luna Pons, Clara Stote, Julieta Tarraubella
1st year
2nd semester
ECAL/Luna Pons
ECAL/Luna Pons
ECAL/Luna Pons
ECAL/Luna Pons
ECAL/Luna Pons

1/5

ECAL/Elisa Hampe
ECAL/Elisa Hampe
ECAL/Elisa Hampe
ECAL/Elisa Hampe
ECAL/Elisa Hampe

1/5

ECAL/Gaia Pierobon
ECAL/Gaia Pierobon
ECAL/Gaia Pierobon
ECAL/Gaia Pierobon
ECAL/Gaia Pierobon
ECAL/Gaia Pierobon

1/6

ECAL/Xiao Fu
ECAL/Xiao Fu
ECAL/Xiao Fu
ECAL/Xiao Fu

1/4

ECAL/Liu Zhiyue
ECAL/Liu Zhiyue
ECAL/Liu Zhiyue
ECAL/Liu Zhiyue
ECAL/Liu Zhiyue

1/5

ECAL/Andrey Lopatin
ECAL/Andrey Lopatin
ECAL/Andrey Lopatin
ECAL/Andrey Lopatin
ECAL/Andrey Lopatin

1/5

ECAL/Julieta Tarraubella
ECAL/Julieta Tarraubella
ECAL/Julieta Tarraubella
ECAL/Julieta Tarraubella

1/4

ECAL/Thomas Martin
ECAL/Thomas Martin
ECAL/Thomas Martin

1/3