PHOTOGRAPHY

Workshop Geray Mena

with Geray Mena

The workshop focused on the dissolution of genres within photography: documentary, fashion, still life and portraiture. Students built bridges between commercial and artistic practice.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographic Hanging

with Laurence Bonvin

For two semesters, second-year students developped projects related to the thematic Reclaiming Water. They were invited to question and procuce images in relation to the countless political, social, economic, human and environmental issues linked to water. Who owns it? Is it a common good or a marketable resource? How can we visually address these issues?

PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

PHOTOGRAPHY

The Indecisive Moment

with Jaya Pelupessy

At a time when the distribution of images is lightning-fast and virtually infinite, and the distinction between the original and the copy often seems irrelevant, what is left? In this workshop the students were asked to partake in an experiment dissecting and illuminating various aspects of the image and reinterpreting its meaning. Using different reproduction techniques and methods of appropriation, students reflected on the origin and status of the image.

FOUNDATION YEAR

Cours de couleur

FOUNDATION YEAR

Option Photographie

FIAT LUX « …Si le statut de l’image photographique est galvaudé, le principe reste inchangé depuis près de deux siècles. Il s’agit ni plus ni moins d’une empreinte lumineuse, enregisrée par un appareil plus ou moins élaboré (depuis l’avénement des appareils numériques le rendu photographique est désormais interprété/calculé par des processeurs toujours plus puissants et n’est donc plus une empreinte lunieuse au sens stricte mais le résulat d’un calcul) et opéré par un·x·e photographe. Du grec ancien phôtós (« lumière ») et gráphô (« écrire »), littéralement : « écrire avec la lumière ».