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SUMMER WORKSHOPS 2024

JULY — SEPTEMBER

Nearly 30 workshops will be accessible from July 1 to September 19, 2024 and will allow you to enjoy the excitement of the festival and the Arlesian summer.
In 2022, more than 96% of participants were satisfied with the supervision of the teaching team (Satisfaction survey carried out at the end of the training).

The summer 2024 workshops program will be online at the beginning of March.
You can already find the pre-program here:

OPENING WEEK:
Courses lasting from 1 to 2 days, including: Jane Evelyn Atwood; Charlotte Abramow; Martine Ravache; Sylvie Hugues; Françoise Huguier; Mathieu Gafsou...

01 - 07 July 2024

Françoise Huguier

04 July

Françoise Huguier

A day with...

This day with Françoise Huguier will resolutely focus on others — either one person or a group of individuals. Some participants will draw from the encounters to tell a story or describe a situation, while others will focus on stealthier exchanges, surveying the attitudes, cultural traits and features of a generation, a social group, a place, etc.

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MATTHIEU GAFSOU

02 — 03 July

MATTHIEU GAFSOU

Structuring the key stages of a personal project

An essential and exciting course which allows photographers with amateur, confirmed or professional practice to define a project and, more broadly, an approach. This day and a half is particularly aimed at people who have accumulated images over time and who have difficulty putting together a coherent corpus.

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01 — 02 July

SYLVIE HUGUES

Editing : the gaze and the project

Participants in this exciting, hands-on, two-day course will take stock of their work, consider fresh approaches and think about how to arrange what they want to show. They will work with Sylvie Hugues on editing past, present or unfinished projects.

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AMBROISE TÉZENAS

01 — 02 July

AMBROISE TÉZENAS

A shooting with...

This day and a half will mostly focus on two key concepts in photography: distance and time.

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01 — 02 July

Fabienne PAVIA

LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR A BOOK

This course will tackle every aspect of making a photography book.

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JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBERT

03 — 04 July

JEAN-FRANÇOIS ROBERT

A shooting with...

This day and a half alongside Jean-François Robert will be devoted to portraiture. Everyone will work on how to position themselves, how to find their distance from the other.

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Charlotte Abramow

01 — 02 July

Charlotte Abramow

a shooting with...

An exciting and creative experience alongside Charlotte Abramow to exchange around the practice of each and then create and carry out a small personal project.

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03 — 04 July

DIANA LUI

An intimate nature

This exciting course will focus largely on how to represent the body, for the creation of a portrait, to preserve a gesture, a look, a detail.

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04 — 05 July

VEE SPEERS

a shooting with...

This day and a half with Vee Speers will focus on the portrait. The sessions will cover the basics — lighting, distance and the exchange with the model — but also leave room for emotion, and sometimes for instinct and the viewer’s interaction with the portrait.

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MARTINE RAVACHE

04 — 05 July

MARTINE RAVACHE

put words on your photographs

Two exciting days to fully immerse yourself in the images, your own but also those of others, two days that will also allow you to find the right words to talk about your own work.

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08 - 14 July 2024

08 — 12 July

KLAVDIJ SLUBAN

A sensitive itinerary

The quest will gradually become more personal and inward-looking in these repetitive alternations, contrasts and different atmospheres. Participants will be asked to dig deep down within themselves and find a common denominator based on their sensations and feelings in order to connect everyday experiences to one another, working on what characterizes their gaze, accompanying the sensibility that dictates distances, obsessions and detours.

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08 — 12 July

Jérôme Bonnet

Portrait : creating a world

This intensive course will be largely based on shooting sessions under the expertise and guidance of Jérôme Bonnet.
The goal will be to skillfully deal with the person photographed and the surrounding space.
Mr. Bonnet will help participants set up the lighting conditions that will create a mood, shape the spaces and emphasize expressions.

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BRUNO BOUDJELAL

08 — 12 July

BRUNO BOUDJELAL

Transcribing emotions

This exciting five-day workshop full of exchanges, experiments and immersions will mainly focus on how to express a sensitive, personal view of the world. It will be about the stories around us, about others, an other, a place, a time, a desire and also ourselves.

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15 - 21 July 2024

15 — 19 July

MARIE SORDAT

A story of sensitivity: from shooting to editing

It will be largely a question of sensitivity, of the relationship to what surrounds us but also of the relationship we have with photography. A step that will allow us to specify our desires, our stakes, and our personal objectives that will guide us throughout the day.

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15 — 19 July

LAURA STEVENS

Portrait: Poetry and intimacy

Over the days, step by step, Laura Stevens will guide everyone in the creation of a coherent series with the portrait as a common thread.
A fascinating work which will combine research on aesthetic and technical aspects such as light, colors, retouching and areas of substance, focusing on the vulnerability of the model, narration and poetry.

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Grégoire Korganow

15 — 19 July

Grégoire Korganow

Territory: a journey of the intimate and the elsewhere

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22 - 28 July 2024

YOHANNE LAMOULERE

22 — 26 July

YOHANNE LAMOULERE

GOING TOWARDS OTHERS: LOOKING AT THE CITY

During this five-day course, photography will often take on the characteristics of a passport, a wonderful open-sesame to explore new places but also a delightful pretext to approach and meet others.

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BERTRAND MEUNIER

22 — 26 July

BERTRAND MEUNIER

ITINERARY FOR A PERSONAL VISION

Five exceptional days which will allow you to explore territories in order to deliver a unique vision.
A route through natural, industrial, urban and residential areas which will allow you to alternate on the same day between remarkable, unexpected sites specific to the region and more everyday and familiar sites.

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JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART

22 — 26 July

JEAN-CHRISTIAN BOURCART

Finding one's photographic language

This workshop aims to help photographers refine their creative language and deepen their personal investment. They will explore their desires, passion, personal and intimate stories, obsessions and discoveries, revealing what is specific to us and what will make their photography relevant, sincere and singular.

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29 July - 04 August 2024

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET

29-July — 02 August

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET

To build up a point of view, from shooting to editing

This full-range course will help participants enrich their gaze, notably by completing a personal project in Arles or nearby that will be exhibited in a group show on the last day.
Jean-Christophe Béchet will advise and guide participants in exploring what makes their gaze unique by having them compare their work.

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29-July — 02 August

MARTIN BOGREN

A way of seeing

This immersive course takes participants on a quest for their own photography, revealing as much about them as about others, the near, the far and the moment before or after.
The intense six-day course is open to all but especially to those who want to deepen their personal approach and develop their photographic language.

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Antoine D'Agata

29-July — 02 August

Antoine D'Agata

Intimate diary : at limits of photographic act

This workshop revolves around photography as a means for asserting a personal perception of the world. Looking beyond the purely documentary, images making up a diary or inventory allow their inventor to cut free from the constraints underlying the transcription of objective reality.

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05 - 11 August 2024

05 — 09 August

JULIEN PEBREL

Territory: a space, lives

This workshop aims to help participants create a coherent body of work with the help of Julien Pebrel's wise advice. They will focus on a specific space to make a portrait. Each will choose, depending on his or her wishes, past experiences and a place to explore: a district, a street, a quay, a monument, a stadium, a building, a park, a wasteland... the playground will have very diverse aspects.

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LAURA BONNEFOUS

05 — 09 August

LAURA BONNEFOUS

The image as poetry of space and the body

The challenge of these five days will be to develop a photographic writing that is specific to us and to question through a personal realization the link to the body and to space, in substance and in form.

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FRÉDÉRIC STUCIN

05 — 09 August

FRÉDÉRIC STUCIN

Portraits: Lighting and sensitivity

This portrait workshop will focus on the practical, very concrete aspects inherent to any project.

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12 - 18 August 2024

12 — 16 August

KOURTNEY ROY

Create your photographic universe: gaze, games and color

Five days alongside Kourtney Roy which will allow each participant to build a personal, coherent vision of the world around us, freeing themselves as soon as possible from the brakes and preconceived ideas which can hinder the creative process specific to each person.

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12 — 16 August

CLAUDINE DOURY

Around the river: a sensitive exploration

Claudine Doury's workshop is about using reality in the service of fiction. It will involve thinking about ways of interacting with reality in order to tell a story.
Participants will be asked to compose a fictional narrative based on their own way of seeing things and their interests and obsessions, using natural surroundings and the spirit of the place.

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12 — 16 August

LÉA CRESPI

Portrait : a story line

Like all photographs, portraits can take many forms and be made using many techniques. The photographer is either totally free or constrained by the uses and limitations he imposes on himself, wittingly or not. Léa Crespi will guide participants through this range of endless possibilities.

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09 - 15 September 2024

09 — 13 September

MARIE ROUGE

Portrait: reassure onself, clarify

These five days will allow you to approach with detail and simplicity the main stages which make it possible to achieve a successful photographic portrait.
An approach which will focus on specifying the way of working with the person photographed, reassuring, reassuring, then leading gently, with kindness.

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Marguerite Bornhauser

09 — 13 September

Marguerite Bornhauser

Photography: a poetry of everyday life

Participants in this exceptional course will visit a wide range of places every day to tell a story oscillating between the real and the imaginary.
Their explorations will converge on the Rhône in Arles, the Camargue and nearby villages, where the multifaceted river will be a pretext to experiment with photography.

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Patrick Le Bescont

09 — 13 September

Patrick Le Bescont

Realize a book

This five-day course will tackle every aspect of making a photography book. By the time it’s over, participants will have created their own based on images, photographs, texts, etc. that they bring...

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16 - 22 September 2024

LJUBISA DANILOVIC

16 — 19 September

LJUBISA DANILOVIC

A sensitive approach : narration thread

This exciting course will help participants sharpen their eye and draw the outlines of a personal photographic language. Ljubisa Danilovic will talk about his experiences, the relationship between photographer and photography and each participant’s goals, sensibilities, obsessions, pleasures and doubts.
The aim will be to realize a project, precising intentions, building a guideline. The goal will be to make a step beyond one's photo practice, during the workshop but also in a long term approach.

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ISABELLE CHAPUIS

16 — 19 September

ISABELLE CHAPUIS

Portrait: the writing of the intimate

The intimate will be the common thread of these days and it is the way of telling the other, their interior, their essence, often invisible which will occupy the daily reflections and realizations.

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16 — 19 September

Ludovic Carème

Grasp the human: encounters and places

This exciting course will question our intimate relationship to the territory, to the environment that we discover, new, but also that of daily life, known, that we seem to find here, and everywhere else.
A sensitive exploration, where it will be a question of spaces, of the people who bring them to life, cross them or inhabit them.

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