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Photographic Essays

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Photographic Essays

with Matthieu Gafsou

In the second year, the course Photographic Essays course enables students to exercise a documentary photographic practice –one based on a relationship with reality, with something anchored in the here and now. This year, students worked on a theme related to ecology in the broadest sense: a very specific, concrete starting point (a permaculture garden, Extinction Rebellion activists, documentation of polluted sites, encounters with people working with more-than-human animals), a broader, multiple or personal approach.

Workshop Paolo Wood

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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.

Ciné-photographie

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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.

Essais photographique

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Essais photographique

with Matthieu Gafsou

The mere mention of the term animal already raises questions; the most general of all is the following: do we, as humans, belong to this kingdom, or have we become totally alien to it ? The aim here is not to answer such a question, but to understand that the divide between humans and non-humans is extremely strong in our society - the only one in human history that has forged such a boundary. Yet the animal is everywhere in our daily lives. There is the animal we eat, or refuse to eat, the one we domesticate, the one that lives in our - its? - environment, the one we hunt, the one we cage in zoos, the one we study, the one we protect, etc... There is now talk of the sixth mass extinction of biodiversity. This context, which is ours today, complicates our relationship with living beings and with animals in particular. We are forced to rethink our relationship with others and become aware that life is a complex network in which we do not have all the space. Moreover, recent scientific research has exploded the Cartesian theory of the animal-machine and demonstrated that we are not the only ones to have developed an interiority. During this year-long project, students were asked to produce a series that addresses one or more of the themes associated with the animal world, in the form of their choice but using reality as raw material.

Pratiques et technologies photographiques

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Pratiques et technologies photographiques

with Jonas Marguet

Atelier Photographique

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Atelier Photographique

with Kalev Erickson (AMC), Luce Lebart

Accrochage Photographique

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Accrochage Photographique

with Clément Lambelet

Workshop Novembre Magazine

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Workshop Novembre Magazine

with Nicolas Coulomb, Florence Tétier

Ciné-photographie

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Ciné-photographie

with Marco Poloni

Ciné-photographie

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Ciné-photographie

with Marco Poloni

Essais photographique

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Essais photographique

with Matthieu Gafsou

Workshop Antony Cairns

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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.

Workshop Olivier Cablat

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Workshop Olivier Cablat

with Olivier Cablat, Milo Keller

On July 2nd 2018 Ecal’s second year Bachelor photography students presented their "guerrilla communication" project at the opening of Rencontres d'Arles. Under the direction of Olivier Cablat (artist, teacher and artistic director of Cosmos Arles Books) and Milo Keller (head of the Photography Department at ECAL), the 2nd year Bachelor students analysed and diverged modes of communication and diffusion for one semester. Both physical and digital strategies have been developed for the field work in Arles: from wild posting, to live webcam, from propaganda to social networks. During the opening week of the festival, the students transformed a 55 m² room of the Cosmos Arles Books into an editorial office, exhibition and work space. This project between installation and caricature, aims to augment our relationship to our society of spectacle, where the speed of dissemination of information sometimes makes the true and false indistinguishable. A newspaper of 250 copies will be printed daily as a physical witness of this experience at multiple media levels.

Workshop with Camille Vivier

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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.

Workshop Peter Knapp

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Workshop Peter Knapp

by 2 BAPH

Workshop Stefan Burger

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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."

Egoportrait

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Egoportrait

by 2 BAPH

Instagram account creation ThinkingOnlyOfOneself

Novembre Magazine workshop

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Novembre Magazine workshop

by 2 BAPH

The result of one week workshop in collaboration with Novembre Magazine and the class of second year bachelor photography.

#Photobooth

PRODUCT DESIGN

#Photobooth

with Camille Blin, Nicolas Haeni, Vincent Jacquier

The ECAL students of the Bachelor Photography and Master Product Design present a series of interactive installations showing how mobile phone cameras and the selfie phenomenon changed the way we look at ourselves. How can one create objects and installations around the portrait theme in this digital age? What means are available to disseminate these? How can one make visitors interact with the exhibits and turn viewers into the main actors in the exhibition? Over a semester, 1st year Master Product Design students and 2nd year Bachelor Photography students from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne worked on these issues with the aim to present their findings as part of an exhibition. Under the watchful eye of Vincent Jacquier, Head of the Visual Communication Department, of designer Camille Blin and photographer Nicolas Haeni, the students were able to understand, using various approaches, how current – material or virtual – technology alters our traditional relationship with portraits, be they selfies or pictures of others. Using modern media as well as more run-of-the-mill devices, exhibition visitors are invited to directly experiment the processes imagined by the students, allowing them to discover new interactive and fun ways of having their picture taken 3.0 style. Based on this principle, the exhibition stages an installation playing with the visitor’s shadow; the combination of a mirror and scanner to create realistic or distorted self-portraits; an image which is altered through song; a tribute to famous departed designers through a system of filters placed in front of a smartphone; analogically merged faces; a 180° portrait produced by a range of reflective surfaces; a trompe-l’œil projection on a mask; a family of objects able to hijack the smartphone camera function to create original images; a poetic reinterpretation Instagram; and finally, self-portraits captured by the photo itself. Video Images: ECAL/Nicolas Haeni

BMW

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BMW

with Philippe Jarrigeon

Assignment carried out by the second-year photography students with BMW, under the direction of Philippe Jarrigeon.

Choli Cholie

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Choli Cholie

by 2 BAPH

Night Less

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Night Less

with Nicolas Haeni

Do you speak Touriste ?

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Do you speak Touriste ?

with Laurence Bonvin, Milo Keller

do you speak touriste ? Quand les photographes décodent le cliché  En collaboration avec l’ECAL Commissaire d’exposition : Pauline Martin Du 6 mars au 11 mai 2014 Vernissage public le 5 mars à 18h Graziella ANTONINI ¦ Claude BAECHTOLD ¦ Emmanuelle BAYART & Timo KIREZ ¦ Mathieu BERNARD-REYMOND ¦ Kurt CAVIEZEL ¦ Olivier CHRISTINAT ¦ Raquel DIAS ¦ David FAVROD ¦ Thomas GALLER ¦ Romain MADER ¦ Murielle MICHETTI-BAUMGARTNER ¦ Adrien MISSIKA ¦ Noha MOKHTAR ¦ Simon RIMAZ ¦ Nicolas SAVARY ¦ Corinne VIONNET Du « clic » du touriste à la carte postale, de la webcam au guide de voyage, do you speak touriste ? décode la photographie touristique et invite chacun à interroger sa propre pratique. Le détournement du cliché est ainsi exploré par cette exposition collective, qui réunit seize artistes suisses, et par un concours organisé en collaboration avec l’ECAL. A travers un parcours thématique dans les salles du musée, les photographes décryptent, par des tirages, des projections et des installations pour certaines inédites, les fonctions et les codes d’une habitude très généralisée. Face au Cervin et aux pyramides de Gizeh, entre voyage imaginaire et réalité fantasmée, les artistes nous suggèrent que le regard touristique ne se réduit pas à quelques clichés. L’exposition associe des créateurs confirmés, comme Nicolas Savary ou Adrien Missika, mais aussi des artistes en devenir pour mieux questionner les pratiques et les stéréotypes visuels solidement ancrés chez les touristes que nous sommes. Concours ECAL Dans le cadre de l’exposition  do you speak touriste ? Quand les photographes décodent le cliché  qui se tiendra au Musée d’art de Pully du 6 mars au 11 mai, un  c oncours inédit  a été organisé en collaboration avec l’ECAL sur le thème du détournement du cliché par l’artiste. Pendant le semestre d’hiver 2013, les étudiants de Laurence Bonvin, photographe suisse de renom et enseignante à l’ECAL depuis 2002, ont eu pour mission d’interroger la notion d’image touristique sur le territoire helvétique, du Cervin au jet d’eau de Genève en passant par les Alpes et Lavaux. Les mises en forme codifiées et analogiques de ces images (cartes postales, albums, dépliants,…) ont été placées au cœur de la réflexion. Au terme de ce travail, deux lauréats ont été primés et se sont vus attribuer, pendant la durée de l’exposition do you speak touriste , deux salles du musée pour la présentation de leur projet photographique. Une sélection d’autres projets occupe une troisième salle. Le jury Le jury était composé de Delphine Rivier, directrice du Musée d'art de Pully, Milo Keller, responsable du Bachelor Photographie de l'ECAL, Sébastien Leseigneur, commissaire associé du Centre de la Photographie de Genève et Pauline Martin, historienne de l’art et commissaire de la Nuit des images au Musée de l’Elysée. Les lauréats Ont reçu le 1 er  prix ex aequo: - Thibault JOUVENT, pour son installation d’images en mouvement à la facture froide et distante, exécutée avec une précision et une douceur très helvétiques. - Hadrien HÄNER, pour son installation Super 8, projetant en alternance des cartes postales du jet d’eau de Genève et des timbres représentant le Cervin. En plus des deux lauréats, une sélection de travaux a particulièrement retenu l'attention du jury. Ainsi, les projets de Coline AMOS, Alexandre HAEFELI, Benoît JEANNET, Maxime GUYON sont également exposés dans une salle du musée. Notons également qu'une série de cartes postales est éditée à partir d’une sélection d’images issues du projet de Julien ROUX. Musée d’art de Pully Chemin Davel 2 | CH-1009 Pully Mercredi-dimanche 14h-18h T +41 (0)21 721 38 00 www.museedepully.ch

Making Books

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Making Books

with Christian Patterson