Photography (BA)

Bachelor 1

Photography (B1)

Professor: Antoine Meyer

This course aims to stimulate the exploration of the field of photography and to cultivate a reflective approach in the student. The contemporary practice of this medium induces the crossing of aesthetic tensions between chemical and digital processes. In a theoretical and technical questioning of these mechanical recordings of the world, the proposed exercises will be presented as visual hypotheses to support the artistic practice of each student.

Photography (B2)

Professor : Marie-Noëlle Boutin

A space for work, research and experimentation, the course is presented as a laboratory where students share their experiences and thoughts on the photographic medium. Around themes related to photography and the field of contemporary art, students develop their critical sense, their creativity and elaborate a personal photographic language.

Photography (B3)

Professors: Anne Marquet, Antoine Meyer

In the third year, students join a work environment coupled with the Master's program, led by the teachers of the photography program in collaboration. During a graduation year, the common challenge is the development of personal projects and the perspective of their completion. The aim is to accompany each student in the realization of projects that connect an extensive practice of photography to collective experiences, confrontations, plastic mutations and an aesthetic reflection constituted of critical tools in the making.

In the first semester, exercises based on an open and transversal theme will be used to launch the production. Gradually, these avenues of work will be assimilated and reinjected into a personal project. Specifically at the Baccalaureate level, students will be encouraged to reconsider their photographic practice as an expression of plastic, performative, editorial and potentially dialectical forms in order to defuse the autonomous and sometimes orthonormal temptations of the medium.

The pedagogical approach of the individual meeting will be developed according to the collective investment of each person. Either during dialogues around images during critical readings, or through an involvement in the collective management of common tools. These last ones suppose as much the technical tools of production (studio, laboratory, digitization, printing), as the development of historical and theoretical resources, whose collection and formatting are essential to the feeding of a working group as a pool, open and ready to share.

Learning outcomes :

- development of a singular, assumed and conscious photographic approach

- reach a relative technical mastery in the experimentation and the making of images

- ability to confront one's images with other plastic forms, to articulate them with narrative frameworks

- search for ambitious solutions for hanging and placement in space, confronted with other forms

- develop the ability to contextualize and socialize their work

A continuous evaluation of the student's work is based on his or her commitment, attendance, and the regular presentation of exercises and completed projects. The workshop grading at the end of the term will be based on the following criteria

- plastic qualities of the production, choice and inventiveness in the realization,

- arrangement of images, hanging, relationship(s) with space,

- critical eye, accuracy of references, anchoring of the work,

- curiosity, (im)relevance, ability to transgress the medium; artistic course of the photography orientation