Charles Negre

Charles
Negre

Enseignements

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Applied Photography - Automne 2025 - MAP1

with Charles Negre, Milo Keller

The course focuses on developing the ability to respond to a commission within one’s own artistic practice, through an introduction to studio photography and constructed image-making. With an emphasis on still life, students refine their sensitivity to photographing and interpreting objects. Assignments revolve around transforming everyday objects into objects of desire, using the tools of commercial and product photography. Through styling, lighting, and visual storytelling, students explore how to reframe the ordinary as something compelling, working across both traditional and improvised studio setups.

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ECAL x PAPERBOY

with Charles Negre, Milo Keller, Clément Lambelet, Tanguy Morvan

Paperboy ECAL is the result of a close collaboration between Paperboy Magazine and first-year students of the Master Photography program. Under the guidance of photographer Charles Negre , they explored the potential of everyday objects to create mysterious and playful still lives.

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Applied Photography - Fall 2024

with Charles Negre

This course focuses on the ability to answer a commission within one’s own artistic practice, guiding students towards a deeper understanding of studio photography, the challenges of constructed images and the processes involved. With an emphasis on still life photography, this applied photography course aims to sharpen the students sensivity to photographing and interpreting objects. For this semester, the group of students will conceptualize, shoot, and designed an alternative issue of Paperboy Magazine. Founded by David McKendrick three years ago, Paperboy will serve as the creative platform for this project.

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Applied Photography - Fall 2023

with Charles Negre

STILL LIFE PAPER - This course focuses on the ability to answer a commission within its own artistic practice and leading the students through a better understanding of studio photography, challenges of constructed images and their processes. This applied photography course has an emphasis on still life photography, our aim is to sharpen the students sensitivity to photographing and interpreting objects. For this semester, the group of students will develop their own printed magazine focusing on the practice of still life.

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Applied Photography - Fall 2022 - MAP1

with Charles Negre

This course focuses on the ability to answer a commission within its own artistic practice and leading the students through a better understanding of studio photography, challenges of constructed images and their processes. Experimenting with still life photography is a starting point, then anyone can develop a method for their ongoing subjects. For this semester, we will be collaborating with Macguffin, a magazine dedicated to the life of things, objects that tells stories, stories that are told by objects.

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Applied Photography - Fall 2020

with MAP, Charles Negre

The first year students have been tasked with creating a story for Klima magazine. The course was tutored by Charles Negre.

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Still Life Photography

with MAP, Charles Negre

During this practical workshop tutored by Charles Negres, the students have been introduced to studio lighting for still life photography and realized images on topics connected to climate.

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citizenM commission

with MAP, Charles Negre

For the applied photography course, first year students were challenged with a commission for citizenM hotels. The students created several images following the client's guidelines. A selection of pictures was then printed as postcards and on plexiglas support to decorate the hotel's rooms. Students: Sara Bastai, Maeva Bosko, Sally Jo, Natalie Maximova, Joanna Wierzbicka, Olivia Wünsche, Manqin Zhang.

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Johanna Hullar – If I Could Only Be Sure

with Charles Negre

Inspired by the human capacity for emotional transformation and the examination of the still life genre, the project merges a series of still life videos of characterised everyday objects and organic material, creating a collage of different recurring moments and processes in time. The emphasis is on exploring the concept of entropy, making time tangible and capturing the transformation of a moment into its material representation. The project is presented on a 12x2m half-circular projection screen, thus surrounding the viewer with the imagery and allowing for a more visceral experience.

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Jung-Ting Hu – Shuǐhuò

with Charles Negre

“Shuǐhuò” is a Mandarin term that refers to the trade of a commodity through distribution channels that are not authorised by the original manufacturer or trademark proprietor. 水 (“Shuǐ”) in Mandarin means “water”, while 貨 (“huò”) means “goods”. However, since the commodity is not authorised, the quality is usually poor. Therefore, when we see poor quality products, we use the word “Shuǐ” to describe them.

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Still Life Photography

with MAP, Charles Negre

The students created still life compositions developing a consistent body of images. Tutored by Charles Negres.

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Collaboration with Gourmand Magazine

with MAP, Charles Negre

‘There are many known connections between food and medicine but there is one quirky link which has not yet been explored: the culinary art of medical training. Despite all the fancy technologies available to educate doctors today teachers still turn to the kitchen fridge or pantry to train students in the skills of their profession. Grapes are perfect for practicing fragile skin suturing. Neurosurgeons learn how to measure the pres-sure of a robotic drill on eggshells.‘ We collaborated with The Gourmand, London based magazine initiated by art director David Lane.

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Collaboration with HYT

with MAP, Charles Negre

During the first semester of 2016/2017 academic year, the students worked with Charles Negre on the relationship between conceptual projects and applied works and how to appeal to a client’s needs as opposed to developing a project without constraint. The students collaborated with HYT, a luxury watch brand which gave a frame to develop a laboratory of ideas. The correlation between past inventions and avant-garde technology is a key aspect of this project as well as how science can be turned as a visual emotion. The subject focus on still life, however, following the motivations of each student, other photographic forms became relevant. The context of the brand gives the students the oppportunity to develop conceptual and unexpected visions within the realm of the subject, however the end goal is an understanding and realization independent of the brand.

Projects

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Charles Negre – Models

by Charles Negre

“These images are lies. What credibility has the photographic principle that says that an image should be faithful to reality? Our perception goes back and fourth between the illusion and its interpretation. Illusion warns and questions.The landscape is an interpretation of a space.The scale models are turned into landscapes through their representation ; from one space’s interpretation born feelings. What is our relationship with nature? Understand it, preserve it, reproduce it. The unknown and the virginity have disappeared from our apprehension of nature. Through those images, I create a fake natural reproductible world. The process of production of the images are like dioramas, trying to imitate the living, often idealized. It is a creation led by an utopia ; the quest of the terra incognita. The serie is the representation of a limited universe, a cosmos. The fog, like a drape, reveals or hides those spaces. This torment, creator and destructor in the same time is the show of a genesis. We get out of the cave, going from obscurity to lightness. The point is the memory of having been lost in time and space.“