FOUNDATION YEAR

L'Or Bleu

with Nicolas Haeni

Une exposition par les étudiant·e·s en Année Propédeutique – option Photographie de l’ECAL/Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne Sous la direction du photographe Nicolas Haeni, les étudiant·e·s invitent à se questionner sur la symbolique de l’eau. Depuis la nuit des temps, cet or bleu intrigue et inspire, laissant naître des interprétations qui, encore aujourd’hui, et peut-être même plus que jamais, habitent la littérature, les arts visuels ou encore les arts vivants. Partant de la citation de l’astrophysicien Hubert Reeves « À l’échelle cosmique, l’eau liquide est plus rare que l’or », les jeunes photographes proposent leur vision personnelle et individuelle, en explorant différents domaines de la photographie : nature morte, portrait, architecture ou mise en scène. Photos © ECAL/Marvin Merkel

FOUNDATION YEAR

Option Photographie

Magazine Shock Création d'une série d’images en lien avec le thème «Shock». Les étudiant·e·s expérimentent les différents domaines de la  photographie tels que la nature morte, l’architecture ou le portrait pour produire un corpus d’images cohérent, personnel et originale.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Tourism

with Nicolas Haeni, Robert Huber

Graphic designer Robert Huber and photographer Nicolas Haeni piloted a transversal workshop between the first years Bachelor Graphic Design and Photography. By joining their complementary skills, several groups of students selected a swiss tourism-related activity, offering an alternative and offbeat vision in edition form.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

The Recipe

with Nicolas Haeni, Robert Huber

Editorial Design of a cooking recipe Collaboration between the first year students of Bachelor Graphic Design & Photography

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Night Less

with Nicolas Haeni

PHOTOGRAPHY

Spring break

with Nicolas Haeni

Workshop given by Nicolas Haeni to first year students.

PHOTOGRAPHY

I'm not lazy

with Nicolas Haeni

During one week, students were asked to produce a big amount of pictures inspired by free papers and current affairs.

ART DIRECTION

Nicolas Haeni – Four Corners

by Nicolas Haeni

“ I decided to create an “architectural” publication. My rational is to reclaim the word architecture from within the realms of professional discourse, and examine its juxtaposition between this and everyday life. So I developed short series of visual experiments which interested me. The result is a publication that takes an alternative look at architecture and the everyday. ” Nicolas Haeni

PHOTOGRAPHY

Nicolas Haeni – And if we dance?

by Nicolas Haeni

“This magazine contains the remedy for boredom: the boredom suffered by this generation of bourgeois left-wingers or golden youth who lack nothing and who, to make their daily lives more exciting, create new games, delusions and costumes... With all the necessary self-mockery, you offer a solution to passivity, perhaps a new way for the people concerned to express themselves, to rebel or to find a space/time in which the freedom to do as they please allows them to blossom. It's also a way of saying no to work, to the lucrative activity that society wants us to take part in. So man does everything he can to avoid toil, and seeks to create new excuses to escape it by devising new diversions. He sets up this new universe using society's material environment. Doing nothing is also a form of revolt, an opposition to the established system. And the act of creating gives human beings the possibility of realizing themselves, of satisfying their deepest fantasies.“