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Photographic revelation

with Laurence Bonvin

Stammering This involves taking an idea, a project in progress or a project that has already been completed but not satisfactorily, and pushing it further, both from a conceptual and/or aesthetic point of view, as well as from a production point of view. To experience what can be improved in a project compared to a first realisation. Revisiting a classic. It is also about testing ideas, taking risks, pushing a process further, experimenting.

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Photographic Editions

with RVB Books/Matthieu Charon & Rémi Faucheux

Starting from the premise that the book constitutes both an alternative practice to the exhibition and an alternative exhibition practice - alternative exhibition practices insofar as the book and the printed word are essentially modes of visibility of art; alternative practices to the exhibition because this means of visibility is very different from what is usually called an exhibition - we consider the book to be the medium that is perfectly suited to soon-to-be-graduated photographers.

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Photographie et Art plastiques

with Natacha Lesueur

Based on projects around a common theme, the students develop a personal and in-depth work over the entire semester. The project must be developed, clarified, modified if necessary, and enriched throughout the semester, as the students conduct research, reflections, and experiments, and as they consult with the professor. During these regular consultations, the students address the various aspects related to the conception, production and realization of a photographic work...

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Workshop Stefanie Moshammer

with Stéfanie Moshammer

« For this workshop there are no rules but I want you to tell me a story. I prefer to see a few images with a good concept, rather than too many images without any idea. » S.M With this invitation, the students worked on the territory of the city of Renens in search of places, people and traces of a history that is not simply a series of beautiful images.

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Workshop Paolo Wood

with Paolo Wood

It has been established that photography is a language. With all its limitations and peculiarities, but a language anyway. Photography is often a relatively poor language that constantly repeats the same nouns and verbs. In the documentary tradition, the range of subjects treated is quite limited and recurrent, and for this reason, in order to make photographs, one must learn and master this language: its vocabulary, its grammar and its history.

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Ciné-photographie

with Marco Poloni

Projects realized by the second year class of the Bachelor of Photography, within the framework of the course Cine-photography directed by Marco Poloni during the first and second semester 2020-2021.

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Earth is Already Crying

with Anouk Kruithof

"Earth is already crying" workshop d'une semaine avec l'artiste Anouk Kruithof.

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Humans Have Bodies

with Maya Rochat

Humans Have Bodies, workshop with the Swiss artist Maya Rochat. Projects realised by the first year students of the Photography unit during a one week workshop. The workshop was based on the novel "Sapiens" by historian and author Yuval Noah Harari. "100.000 years ago, the earth was inhabited by at least six different species of hominids. Only one survived. We, the Homo Sapiens" Each student had to interpret a chapter of the book relatively to her/his personal work.

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Workshop Novembre Magazine

with Nicolas Coulomb, Florence Tétier

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Ciné-photographie

with Marco Poloni

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Révélation photographique

with Clément Lambelet

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Improvisation is shit

with Melanie Bonajo

"Improvisation is shit" is a performance workshop introducing role-play and improvisation techniques led by Melanie Bonajo at ECAL. During the workshop the students are challenged to negotiate again what it means to be human by way of our relationship to technology and systems of control. The onset of the digital era and the steady increase in globalised secular values has led to sexuality as a sphere of daily life being more visible and more available than ever. Nevertheless, it seems as though people are losing the ability to make meaningful connections even in physically intimate circumstances. What does it say about our society that many people would rather meet and then ghost a hook up rather than pay someone for a conscious orgasm? And what does it say if Capitalism is making money off of our loneliness and incapacities to source our own intimacy?

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Undo

with Shirana Shahbazi

For one week, artist and photographer Shirana Shahbazi asked the 3rd year students in the Bachelor Photography to revisit their work. By changing, re-editing and destroy existing forms and materials, the students were able to broaden the scope of possibilities in the various production processes. The title "Undo" invites students to get rid of their methodology and explore beyond their own borders, through a more refined approach to the concept of form.

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BRUTAL 003

with Nicolas Poillot

To celebrate the Paris Photo 2019 edition, the Bachelor Photography students of ECAL, under the artistic direction of Nicolas Poillot, translated the music of the producer IKAZ BOI into images. The visuals, sometimes smooth and neat, sometimes dark and rough, were produced by listening to the new project BRUTAL 3: an  intimate album oscillating between romance and darkness composed with instrumental tracks only. Exclusively, 500 unpublished and numbered vinyl copies were created especially for this occasion. For two days, ECAL invests the Au Roi gallery, inviting spectators to a sound and visual journey, in an ephemeral sensory space generated by a synchronous video installation. HD Images Cocktail: 07.11.19 from 19h00 to 21h30 (by invitation only) Exhibition: from 08.11.19 to 09.11.19 from 10h00 to 20h00 Place: Au Roi, 75, rue de la Fontaine-au-Roi, 75011 Paris After: Brutal Party Curators: Nicolas Poillot & Milo Keller Students: Mina Albespy, Faustine Ardaine, Maëwenn Bourcelot, Sarah Coppet, Gaël Corboz, Noé Cotter, Matthieu Croizier, Alexandra Dautel, Charlotte Favre, Laurent Fiorentino, Norida Ho, Gohan Keller, Achille Laplante - The Brown, Pavo Marinovic, Santiago Martinez, Mindaugas Matulis, Anouk Maupu, Maxime Pouillot, Margot Sparkes, Tara Ulmann, Valentin Woeffray Partners: Know-How, Heineken, Elipson www.ecal.ch www.nicolaspoillot.com www.auroi.fr

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Zone Grise

with Taiyo Onorato

For their first workshop at ECAL, the first year Bachelor Photography students were given the opportunity to work with the Swiss photographer duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs. After receiving 20Kg of clay each, they began their plastic exploration with the creation of a mask, a recognizable and anthropomorphic form. By gradually moving away from figuration, the clay, gradually transforming into an image, has been the founding element of formal, intuitive and experimental explorations. The results have been published in the form of a book and an ephemeral installation in a closed and fragile space where the frenzy of creation seems frozen in time.

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Mise en Espace

with Anja Schori

This semester, ECAL had the opportunity to welcome the Swiss artist Anja Schori for a one-week workshop. The students developed a project that interacts with the school space, exploring the issue of the spatialization of photography. Their work studies and analyses the way in which photography is transformed and adopts an installative, even sculptural, character. By using architecture, infrastructure, objects, materials, light, etc., students transform the 2D image into a three-dimensional subject related to its exhibition space. The final result does not show images on the wall, but images that have gone through a transformation process.

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Workshop Renate Buser

with Renate Buser, Milo Keller

For a week, the Swiss artist Renate Buser led a workshop with students in first year Bachelor Photography. The ECAL building, a former factory converted into an art school in 2006 by architect Bernhard Tschumi, was the starting point for their photographic explorations. The rules of the game: two black and white films per student and darkroom prints that helped define the initial framework. By taking advantage of the constraints, the varied results illustrate the creativity of the students who experiment with options in shooting, drawing and installation.

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Workshop Antony Cairns

with Antony Cairns

For one week Ecals bachelor students had the chance to work with photographer and artist Antony Cairns. The workshops aim was to investigate a variety of processes within the history of photography. Since the invention of the medium, photography has shared a close relationship with technology. Students had the chance to explore a range of forgotten techniques and machines to create artworks around the theme of time while researching its connection to other art pieces, films, books, and images that shared the same theme. Cairns' practice has been hugely inspired by cyberpunk science fiction and Futurology. These subject matters led him to explore new ways to interpret the photographic medium.

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Workshop with Camille Vivier

with Camille Vivier

The workshop held by fashion photographer Camille Vivier with the second year Bachelor Photography students has immersed in the world of the peep show, oscillating between eroticism, voyeurism, gender and beauty. The students had the chance to study the mixed light but also the pose of the body and the staging, in a cinematographic atmosphere, warm, soft, smoky and foggy.

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Workshop Thomas Albdorf

with Thomas Albdorf

Workshop held by Austrian photographer Thomas Albdorf with the first year bachelor in photography students. Under the title "Working from memories", Albdorf introduced the students into his approach in image making and  asked them to find ways to react to recent technological developments in image production. with the photographic tools that largely determine the photographers practice, be it camera-based photography, photorealistic 3D-rendering or still lives in front of a mostly flat constructed scenery.

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Workshop Christian Patterson

with Christian Patterson

For a week, the New York based photographer Christian Patterson worked with the first year students in photography of ECAL on the edit, sequence, layout and design of a book. Starting off from pre-existing books, the students developed together with Christian Patterson their own book in a book.

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"Walk With Pierre Hardy" in Tokyo

with Philippe Jarrigeon

PIERRE HARDY & the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne present the exhibition Walk with Pierre Hardy . Fifteen iconic models by the designer were visually reinterpreted by the students of Bachelor Photography under the direction of Philippe Jarrigeon. Additionally, a luxurious special publication marks the occasion. Presented for the first time in November 2016 during Paris Photo at the PIERRE HARDY boutique (Palais Bourbon), this exhibition was a huge success. Pierre Hardy thought that it was absolutely necessary to share this event with his Japanese friends. Therefore, the exhibition will be discovered from 18 to 22 May in the exhibition space related to the PIERRE HARDY boutique in Tokyo. “I really enjoyed interacting with the students. At ECAL, my role was very different from that of a teacher coaching the students on their work – as I myself was the subject I knew the stuff inside out! Just show me half a centimetre of a heel and I instantly recognise the model which I created”, says Pierre Hardy. The ECAL Bachelor Photography students thus worked on various collections produced by the Parisian designer in the past fifteen years in order to give them a new visual interpretation. Photographer Philippe Jarrigeon comments on the method he chose to conduct this workshop at ECAL: “Together with PIERRE HARDY’s team we selected fifteen pairs of shoes in the archives – a purely practical decision which allowed us to keep the models as long as we wanted at ECAL. In addition, this allowed students to free themselves from seasonal trends. At the beginning of the workshop in October 2015, each student got a model on which to work by drawing lots”. This project allowed the students to question the relationship between photography and footwear, and by extension to confront the interconnection between photography and fashion. Milo Keller, Head of Photography at ECAL, observes that “Students, working without any business constraints in that case, are less formatted than a professional and therefore often offer unexpected approaches”. The results are indeed surprising and offbeat, sometimes even provocative or poetic, but always treat the original creations with respect.

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Workshop Antje Peters

with Antje Peters

interlacing the image - process 1st step create and shoot three still lifes without focusing on a certain product or object. in other words : create ‘abstract images’ through various ingredients. you could use: paper, fluids, photoshop, paint, cloth, etc. 2nd step create objects out of the 3 abstract still life images you shot earlier. think about the presentation of the photograph in the space. try to stretch the general concept of the two dimensional image, the photograph (not just a print on the wall). find and explain the connection between image, object and presentation. 3rd step re-shoot the objects you created, your ‘products’, in the studio. be inspired by and try to stretch the visual clichés of online-shop and catalogue photography.

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Workshop Peter Knapp

by 2 BAPH

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ECAL presents 3 photographers at Circulation(s)

by Maxime Guyon

CAL is the only school invited by the Festival Circulation(s) at the 104 in Paris until the 7 of August. “Skeuomorphic” is a body of work created by three ECAL Bachelor Photography graduates, Jacques-Aurélien Brun, Maxime Guyon and Jean-Vincent Simonet, and set designed with Marceau Avogadro and Anaïs Benoit Dignac, Bachelor Industrial Design graduates. An observational practice of the physical and contextual form of the photography medium has took place in the past year. Whether they record abstract visuals, re-appropriate commercial aesthetic discourse or playing with a whole delightful digitized chaos, the three artists here ended their process with the question of the persistently shifting modes of the photography media today. Their natural collaboration came in the investigation of physicality in photography. The apprehension of the image as an object dissipate the initial narratives from the three distinct bodies of work, but also attempts to expand the visual experiment on the current extreme ubiquity context that undergoes this medium. www.festival-circulations.com/about-us/ www.104.fr

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ECAL au JEEP

by Jacques-Aurélien Brun, Quentin Lacombe, Clément Lambelet

A l'occasion des Journées Européennes des Écoles de Photographies et dans le cadre du  Festival Circulations  à Paris, trois étudiants ( Calypso Mahieu , Quentin Lacombe, Clément Lambelet) du Bachelor Photographie de l'ECAL ainsi que  Jacques-Aurélien Brun  (diplômé et assistant du département) présentent l'ECAL et leurs portfolios ce week-end au  Centquatre-Paris . www.calypsomahieu.com http://jacquesaurelienbrun.com http://c-lambelet.com www.festival-circulations.com/evenement/j-e-e-p-2016/ www.j-e-e-p.eu

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Workshop Stefan Burger

by 2 BAPH

Burrowstagram - asocial media today "Once i dug a hole in the ground close by the Karlsruhe Palace, with a swiss knife, in the middle of a meadow. The hole had the dimensions of 25 cm depths to a diameter of 15 cm. Holes are important in photography. With 1/4 liter of sparkling mineral water and a hand full of the excavated earth I mixed a soft and creamy fluid with which i lubricated my left foot. Tenderly i slipped the foot into the burrow and left it there for 37 days, eyes closed i listened to the sound of the birds and the wind in the trees."

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Workshop Lucas Blalock

with Lucas Blalock

"Imagine for a moment that photography is not a good copier but a rather a fairly poor one that is constantly needing to be propped up through formal play, association, and intervention. What does it mean to make a copy? Why do we do it? What is a good copy? One answer to this proposition, that the photograph is a bad copy, would be to make another kind of copy that was better. This is an entirely valid position. However, in today’s world the photograph is an important type of copy because it is able to travel through networks at an extremely high speed and not lose its most important qualities. During the workshop, students was asked to attend to a site within the city and use the tools of contemporary photographic making (the camera, the computer, the studio, and the printer) to draw out their relationships to these environs in more palpable ways. This means shooting out in the world or bringing things back subjects from outside and photographing them in the studio, all the while processing." Lucas Blalock

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Exhibition "1020 Renens"

1020 Renens Exhibition photo 03 mars – 23 mars 2016 Place du Marché, Renens It’s all a question of time. A photograph is shot in a fraction of a second, in one instant. A city changes, it transforms; and to be defined into a new image, it could take years, decades or centuries. During one year, the photographer Nicolas Faure has worked together with the 15 students of the 3rd year photography class at ECAL in Renens. They explored various themes such as the documentary of an African community or the life of teenagers in schools or at the pool as well as the every day life at the office or the intimacy of retired people. The images, assembled in a book as a tribute to Nicolas Faure, are pieces of reality that are sometimes raw and sometimes reworked. They let our mind travel around even when we are still here, in Switzerland, in Renens.

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Summer University Rio de Janeiro

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with Viktoria Binschtok

Hashtags: #myneedlessitem #perfectday #measananimal #yellowsecret #wtf/bw

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The Embarrassment Show

with Milo Keller, Erik Kessels

After ECAL in June 2015 and Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam in September 2015, ECAL Bachelor Photography students present "The Embarrassment Show", an exhibition curated by Erik Kessels, cofounder & creative director of KesselsKramer (Amsterdam), at the  NRW-Forum Düsseldorf  from 20 November to 10 January. --------- The Embarrassment Show A workshop and exhibition curated by Erik Kessels cofounder & creative director KesselsKramer (Amsterdam), with Bachelor Photography students. “Embarrassment is important. If you’re not willing to humiliate yourself, make mistakes and downright fuck up, you should consider working in a cubicle farm. It’s safer there. Because as a creative person, you’ll be called an idiot at least once a day. That’s okay. Making mistakes and risking embarrassment, even failure, is how you make progress. Without it, you’ll be stuck in the same old safe zone: not embarrassed, but not better either. In other words: boring. So if we want to do this thing we love – making stuff – we mustn’t be afraid of looking stupid. In this workshop and exhibition I stretched the abilities of 2nd year ECAL Bachelor Photography students to the limit. By embarrassing themselves they are able to tell a personal, often awkward and risky story. This gives them an opportunity to explore an area of photography which they would probably not have dared to touch.”  Erik Kessels