Presentation

From artistic photography to commissioned work, via still-life, documentary, portrait or fashion, this programme is for students passionate about photography as a medium and wishing to sharpen their eye and refine their technique. Prospective, pragmatic and experimental, this Bachelor course is provided in the framework of the Visual Communication Department, which concurrently offers crossover courses and projects enabling students to acquire multidisciplinary skills (graphic design, interaction design, film).

Through courses and workshops provided by major photographers on the international scene, the students become seasoned in the various fields (editorial, documentary and artistic) of photography. Involvement in exhibitions, publications or assignments commissioned by institutions provides an actual immersion into the professional world. The students also benefit from a wide range of theoretical courses and conferences on the ECAL premises.

The skills and projects acquired throughout the curriculum serve to produce a portfolio to the highest technical and aesthetic standards of actual professional practice. Whether they intend to work on applied or self-assigned photography projects, but also in art direction or creating moving images, either self-employed or working for a company, students who train at ECAL have a wide range of opportunities to choose from when they complete their CV. If they so wish they may also pursue in their chosen discipline by doing the new Master Photography at ECAL or an equivalent programme in another institution.

Language

French

Qualification issued

Bachelor of Arts HES-SO in Visual Communication, major in Photography

Yearly fees (materials included)

Fees detail

Length

6 semesters

Credits

180 ECTS

Useful links

Admissions Contact

Equipments & infrastructures

Open space BA Visual Communication Digital Printshop Technology Center Photo Studio Editing/Scanning Room

Learning Objectives

First year
Workshop avec Taiyo Onorato
Analog medium format class with Anoush Abrar
Workshop with Thomas Albdorf
Collaborative workshop with Philippe Jarrigeon
Video class with Clément Lambelet

1/5

  • Acquire digital and analogue photographic techniques (shooting, lighting).
  • Understand the operation of an analogue laboratory (developing films and black & whiteprints).
  • Develop your skills with digital software (Photoshop, Capture One, etc.).
  • Produce and edit moving images (clip).
  • Practice applied and visual photography (still life, portrait, architecture, staging, etc.).
  • Immerse yourself in cross-disciplinary courses in Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design (website), 3D Animation (Cinema 4D) and 2D Animation (After Effects, Premiere).
  • Acquire background knowledge via theory courses (History of Art, Photography, Film, Digital Culture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Contemporary Photography, Exhibitions and Publications).
  • Take part in weeks of workshops supervised by practitioners from all over the world with the aim of carrying out collective or personal projects.
Second year
Workshop Elizaveta Porodina
Installation class - Marvin Merkel
Workshop with Thomas Albdorf
Opening of the exhibition ECAL x Zenith à Genève
Installation class - Angèle Marignac-Serra
Installation class - Johanna Bommer
Workshop with Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs

1/7

  • Experiment with different hanging and installation techniques.
  • Work with brands and institutions.
  • Develop an editorial project (magazine photography and social networks).
  • Carry out a documentary project throughout the year.
  • Broaden your horizons through practical cross-disciplinary courses within a sequence (videoclip or VR) or editing project (of your choice) in collaboration with Graphic Design and Media & Interaction Design students.
  • Broaden your theory vision thanks to preparatory courses for writing a dissertation
  • Enhance your knowledge through theory courses (Information and Communication, Global Visions).
  • Take part in weeks of workshops supervised by practitioners from all over the world with the aim of carrying out collective or personal projects.
Third year
Evaluation - Dominique Bartels
Installation class - Sara De Brito Faustino
"Under Your Smell" Jean-Paul Gaultier x ECAL
Evaluation - Lea Sblandano
Novembre X ECAL
Installation class - Yul Tomatala
"Walk with Pierre Hardy" with Philippe Jarrigeon
Workshop with Shirana Shabazi

1/8

  • Produce a photography book.
  • Define your style and photographic directions.
  • Develop multimedia installations (projections, displays, sound systems).
  • Immerse yourself in cross-disciplinary courses to refine your collaborative skills in a transdisciplinary project (creation of a digital platform that includes Graphic Design, Media & Interaction Design and Photography).
  • Take part in weeks of workshops supervised by practitioners from all over the world with the aim of carrying out collective or personal projects.
  • Write a dissertation based on the knowledge acquired during the course.
  • Put into practice the know-how acquired in a graduation work and a portfolio, which will serve as a business card to integrate into the labour market quickly or continue your studies on an MA course.

Projects

This section contains a selection of emblematic or recent projects related to the disciplines taught in the Bachelor's degree.
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Diploma projects

Sara De Brito Faustino – Toute petite et vilaine

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Sara De Brito Faustino – Toute petite et vilaine

by Sara De Brito Faustino

“This project presents the home as a place where uncanniness and vernacular commonness exist side by side. Being an intimate space, a home should be a restful and secure place. However, mine has been the scene of some painful events. Today, I see this house as threatening. Uncomfortable and dysfunctional, it bears the scars of the past. In my photographs, I revisit those memories and reclaim my body. My tiny dioramas express my young self’s ideals opposed to the wounds I currently bear. Constructing, deconstructing, objects become bodies, whereas my being feels deformed and petrified. Toute petite et vilaine (“Tiny and Ugly”) creates an antagonistic tension between appealing visuals and disturbing details.“

Ulises Lozano – Coming in

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Ulises Lozano – Coming in

by Ulises Lozano

“Adolescence is synonymous with identity construction. Identity is redefined by today’s youth. The aesthetics they adopt reflect a desire for singularity in a changing society. In a collaborative way, I accompany a process of self-affirmation. They blossom and I offer them a space in which to express themselves. Photography takes shape: a safe place for participants to unfold their fantasised personalities – a kind of alter ego in the making. These self-portraits echo the intimate experience of coming in. They become moments of breath, of reconciliation. Through encounters, drawing and photography, they reveal their intimate selves to me. Coming in is a visual interpretation of this process.“

Gaétan Uldry – I NO LONGER LOVE BLUE SKIES

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Gaétan Uldry – I NO LONGER LOVE BLUE SKIES

by Gaétan Uldry

The drone is a machine for control, surveillance and suppression that is increasingly used and improved in its technological evolution. The drone acts as a prism that recreates a new reality, filtering and annihilating the real world. The image produced is a kind of mirage, devoid of meaning. The machine creates a deliberate feeling of distance with the need to confront death. This book highlights this new reality by collecting, cropping and assembling images produced by drones to denounce the absurdity and danger of these devices for carrying out violence. It questions the status of these images, whose plasticity and aesthetics obscure and conceal the true nature of their function, which remains to control, monitor and kill.

Angèle Marignac-Serra – Isula Anima

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Angèle Marignac-Serra – Isula Anima

by Angèle Marignac-Serra

« As everything regenerates, I wander the island of my ancestors. This book captures my encounter with the souls of this place and the invisible realm. I am confronted with a harsh and confidential geological world. None of my close family members reside there anymore. The various protagonists constitute clues, traces bearing the three kingdoms of the living. They become my clan. I become an archaeologist of this land. Animated by ancestral vernacular beliefs, the landscapes become anthropomorphised. It is a tribute to the secret nature, to the imperceptible, in search of a face in the stone, the trees, the sky. I leave room for my imagination and fantasise modern ruins like posthumous signs. The border with death becomes more and more tangible.»

Lisa Mazenauer – Copper Tales

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Lisa Mazenauer – Copper Tales

by Lisa Mazenauer

What links embodied desires with the spirals of open-pit mines? Copper Tales is an installation that addresses mining operations through the sensitive bodies that are involved in it. Based on the site of the Rio Tinto mines (Spain) crossed by an acidic river, the project connects different actors participating in the extraction of raw materials. The – archaeological, geological, human, bacterial – traces marked on the grounds are projected together in a future narrative.

Mindaugas Matulis – Modern House and Green Garden

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Mindaugas Matulis – Modern House and Green Garden

by Mindaugas Matulis

The project is based on the aimless wandering of Mendog, a fictitious artist/businessman who navigates through a transitional period, elaborating traumas of the past and creating new wounds as he pursues his dreams of suburban happiness.  It is set in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time freedom, coupled with the ideological influence of the West, drove people to reshape their lives. After the fall of the authoritarian regime, people were allowed to dream again and some made their dreams come true.

Matthieu Croizier – Everything Goes Dark a Little Further Down

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Matthieu Croizier – Everything Goes Dark a Little Further Down

by Matthieu Croizier

« From freak shows to the invention of hysteria in the 19th century, the figure of the monster is created through images. The staging of abnormality reinforces the norm to which it is opposed. By means of self-representation, I seek to create a monstrosity out of the banal, turning my body into malleable and fragmented material. With reference to scientific and anatomical iconography, I seek to deconstruct normative representations of the body in order to construct new ones. To what extent does a body remain a body and how can it free itself from the norms that constrain it?»

Pavo Marinovic – Marble Ass

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Pavo Marinovic – Marble Ass

by Pavo Marinovic

Marble Ass contributes to photographic research on how masculinities are constructed in post-conflict societies and addresses the existing archetype in the former Yugoslavia, nowadays the Balkans.  The installation reveals not only the role of a territory in political transition but also its history, heritage and inter-generational transmission.

Alexandra Dautel – May You Continue to Blossom

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Alexandra Dautel – May You Continue to Blossom

by Alexandra Dautel

« Is it possible to live together as equals far from the known models of our societies? My investigation into a community in Israel, a kibbutz, lies at the crossroads between utopia and dystopia. This was in fact a school for “self-learning”. Totally isolated, talking about the past there was forbidden. However, utopia hides many secrets, or at least was hiding many. This group of friends who left Jerusalem to settle in the Negev desert followed a man, “a guru, leader, servant, older brother, teacher, friend, lover…”. It is still difficult at this time to define his exact role.»

Tara Ulmann – Chère Liberté, éloge au Pardon

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Tara Ulmann – Chère Liberté, éloge au Pardon

by Tara Ulmann

« Chère Liberté is the story of a young girl whose past and cultural heritage have been kept from her, of a child-turned-woman through the prism of her culture. It is a subjective interpretation of a contemporary odalisque, growing up inhabited by transgenerational traits. It is an elevation of the soul far from the body, a long and tortuous journey from the roots to the unknown. It is a bedroom turned into a stage for my living personas. “Dear Freedom” is praise to all, a performance of pain and the foundation of body psychotherapy as a tool for forgiveness.»

Yul Tomatala – Anfa

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Yul Tomatala – Anfa

by Yul Tomatala

« Through a series of reflections I considered Casablanca’s modern and colonial heritage from  an urban development perspective. Going beyond a purely documentary approach, I chose to look  beyond the confines of the real world to turn towards a broader and more personal narrative.  This  territory, which European architects once regarded as their fantasy laboratory, becomes a space  for exploration and questioning. Between modern utopia and postmodern deconstruction, these images depict the innocence and  exuberance of a  turbulent era in the collective memory.»

Gaïa Lamarre – Realness

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Gaïa Lamarre – Realness

by Gaïa Lamarre

« It’s in this world that I want to live, in this place where I don’t need to identify myself. Where I’m not afraid of being judged, where I’m not afraid of other people. Where I don’t feel fear, far from this binary model. That world is safe. It was built on the memories of those who, before me, also simply wanted to live their lives in an authentic way, without wondering if the next day would be their last. This fantasized metaphorical journey expresses my doubts and indecisions about increasingly conscious identity questions.»

Luna Conte – Landing

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Luna Conte – Landing

by Luna Conte

« Landing is the story of my encounter with Israeli territory, of a confrontation with a reality far from the one I once fantasized about. It is a latent crossing, that of a place where time seems to have frozen still. What emerges out of the heaviness of the surrounding silence is the picture of a fragmented territory, one that is difficult to access and where the lowest walls stand like so many borders against the horizon. And in the destabilizing immobility of things they cast their nostalgic and dumbfoun- ded gazes, they who seem to be contemplating their territory, the very one whose complexity stares them back in the face.»

Romain Roucoules – Global Solutions

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Romain Roucoules – Global Solutions

by Romain Roucoules

Following the Brazilian presidential elections, the Amazonian rainforest, an envi- ronmental icon, which has been forgotten for some twenty years, is back under the spotlight and once again the matter for general concern. Presented in the form of an installation, this project brings together modern simu- lacra from different backgrounds. Far consequences, near causes. Between collective memory and collective forgetfulness, Global Solutions questions the way we perceive distant realities, as observed through the prism of technological tools.

Thaddé Comar – May 2018

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Thaddé Comar – May 2018

by Thaddé Comar

Mai 2018 is an investigation into the relationship between the media system and activist events. Fifty years after the events of May 1968, the beginning of 2018 saw the birth of a willingness to join forces and to oppose the reformist intentions of the government.  Presented as a package, this project includes different types of images and symbols highlighting various formats, languages and aesthetics. Media elements come alive, various pieces of information converge, temporality is distorted into a reality shifting between transparency and opacity.

Vincent Levrat – Galbanum

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Vincent Levrat – Galbanum

by Vincent Levrat

« Through their emptiness and lack of function, wastelands are impervious to the social norm. In that sense, they can be considered as spaces of freedom, in which imagination can be expressed completely freely. I therefore occupied a wasteland, in order to make it my kingdom, a space of endless possibilities. It became a playground, in which I celebrated physical experimentation, craftsmanship and materiality, and escaped from the virtual and technological world. Worthless materials found on site were conducive to creative activity, once they had been triggered by the virtue of infantile naivety. »

Solène Gün – Turunç (Bitter Orange)

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Solène Gün – Turunç (Bitter Orange)

by Solène Gün

« Turunç offers an immersion in the daily life of Turkish immigrant boys in Europe, who live in places like the suburbs of Paris and Berlin. From my viewpoint, these places represent areas devoid of prospects, where these young people can only build a very particular world for themselves, torn between the desire to show they exist and a wish to hide away. It is from this identity conflict that I created my photographic work while being close to the people I was studying, which sometimes prevented me from seeing details or from observing them well. »

Olivia Schenker – Reply to your ad

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Olivia Schenker – Reply to your ad

by Olivia Schenker

« Fetishism has long been trapped in the shackles of sexual deviance, and these minorities would still rather keep silent about their paraphilia. Internet then became the shelter for a secret but surprisingly wide community. For one year, I posted several classified ads offering to anonymously photograph anyone who wanted their secret fantasy to be captured. This collaborative project explores various unconfessed fetishes, in which the camera becomes the object of desire between two strangers. »

Cécilia Poupon – Another Hydra

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Cécilia Poupon – Another Hydra

by Cécilia Poupon

Another Hydra is a personal overview of the consequences of contemporary society on the definition of our identity. We tend to become fragmented individuals, displaying our multiplied identity on an ever-growing number of surfaces around us, like screens, for instance. Never too opaque nor transparent, this work constantly confronts characters who resist the idea of image-altering surfaces. The recurring fragmentation of our lives and of our identity is visible through technology, architecture and our everyday life interactions.

Marvin Leuvrey – Overflow

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Marvin Leuvrey – Overflow

by Marvin Leuvrey

« Overflow evokes the excesses of hypercapitalism and its self-destructive tendencies in the abyss of technology and artifacts. This work is defined through these cities and their places of transit, such as free zones. My images are an interpretation of this acceleration of society through permanent progress and of the gradual delegation of power to machines. The book and the installation are a metaphor for the ubiquity of media devices, for the virtualization of reality through an alienating process. Humankind is evolving in a subjective kind of reality that resembles simulation. »

Aporetic Spectacle

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Aporetic Spectacle

Aporetic Spectacle researches the changing nature of photographic pictures as extensions of human perception. The photographs are the result of repetitive parametric captures by a computational camera mounted below an autonomous drone. As latent images dissolve into data, the smallest deviation in the dataset results in an unconscious and uncontrolled distortion of traffic flow. The emergence of the sign of a hidden and imperceptible infrastructure is also a metaphor for the need for photography to have a physical basis, even for disembodied computational photographs.

Calypso Mahieu – Le cabaret du néant

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Calypso Mahieu – Le cabaret du néant

by Calypso Mahieu

Le Cabaret du Néant is a mysterious place where cynicism  and occultism co-existed. Visitors were welcomed in a macabre decor with skeletons, damned souls' sculptures and many other monstrosities. These frightful figures announced the charming peep-shows and performances where people came to test their destiny for one night. The cabaret doesn't exist anymore and my work interprets this nefarious place through aesthetic research and a work of stagings where the web media virtualizes this historic place of Pigalle and brings it back to life in the digital age.

Quentin Lacombe – Event Horizon

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Quentin Lacombe – Event Horizon

by Quentin Lacombe

Event Horizon is the astronomic term that describes the boundary around a black hole beyond which events cannot propagate, therefore producing space and time warps. This book is an attempt to construct a personal cosmology through photographic means. In this curved cosmos, different entities – organic matter, animals, inanimate and architectural objects, all having equal agency – roam along an endless horizon line.

Clément Lambelet – Collateral Visions

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Clément Lambelet – Collateral Visions

by Clément Lambelet

Collateral Visions is an investigation of human singularity  inside algorithmic and computer visions. Presented as an installation, this project includes different kinds of new visions born from the ideology of control societies. Those processes are diverted from their common use to form visual proposals alternating between contemplation and confrontation. Through both reappropriation of operative images and staging inside the monitoring device, Collateral Visions reveals systems of dehumanization and anxiety inside the current modes of observation.

Zoé Aubry – Comfort Zone

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Zoé Aubry – Comfort Zone

by Zoé Aubry

Comfort Zone is a video installation that questions in  a hypnotically way the ambiguous boundary between resisting and breaking up. These images create a space where pressure, rhythm and the everyday confront each other, which challenges the viewer’s endurance. My parallel interest for electromagnetic waves originates from their double nature both invisible and in concrete interaction with living beings, which echoes the feeling of social pressure. Between a body being deformed by wind and the immobility of a suffocated face, temporality is altered through performed actions.

Benoît Jeannet – A Geological Index of the Landscape

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Benoît Jeannet – A Geological Index of the Landscape

by Benoît Jeannet

A Geological Index of the Landscape covers the invention of landscape and its genesis through representation. This work is inspired by the frenetic human need to want to down scale the world to make it one’s own. The project is built around the permanent human conflict between the emotional and rationalism. Fascination with the world’s mysteries and geological shapes confronts the man’s absurd and obsessive need to put the extraordinary into boxes.

Maxime Guyon – Technological Exaptation

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Maxime Guyon – Technological Exaptation

by Maxime Guyon

This project deals on the technological evolution at its large sense. Replicating the hyper-commercialization aesthetic codes, this series dissects standardized commodities and high technologies which are here listed as full species. Some of the images are intentionally manipulated, which finally witness the hybridizations that the photographic medium as well as technology undergo. This work helped me to go further in my researches on the role of a photographer nowadays while we currently experience a significant rise of post-internet art.

Alexandre Haefeli – The Company of Men

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Alexandre Haefeli – The Company of Men

by Alexandre Haefeli

Responding to a desire to observe, photography has always been a revealer of fantasy. The company of men explores the multiple facets of the representation of the eroticism and the nudity of the male, often only superficially present and highly codified. Evolving in a fantasy of innocence and consumption of purity, the recurring figure fetish of the male body becomes a source of fleshly sensations and is exposed to the projections and looks of its observer, lover or voyeur. Between romanticism and sexuality, suggestion and reveleation, an invitation is launched: an invitation to speculate, to imagine, to desire.

Plein soleil

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Plein soleil

These are women with golden skin exposing themselves to the omnipresent  sun. They revel in the sunlight to improve their looks. Their tanned bodies show the long hours of sunshine they enjoyed. They stay along the coast of the seaside towns marked by Latin, bright and colourful architecture. Floating between documentary and fiction, the portraits of this matriarchal community, relaxing in the Southern sun, reveal a desire for exotism.

Jean-Vincent Simonet – Maldoror

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Jean-Vincent Simonet – Maldoror

by Jean-Vincent Simonet

In 1869, aged 23, Isidore Ducasse published Les Chants de Maldoror, a  cutting-edge book praising youth revolt, blasphemy and the victory of dream over reality. My work is a rendition of the original book, divided into six booklets. This new illustrated version is a revival of this literary enigma, transforming the classic novel into a contemporary editorial object. Each of the six booklets offers a thematic approach related to the universe of Les Chants de Maldoror. The graphic design and different typologies of pictures give each booklet its own and strong personality. The literary blasphemy turns into a tribute.

Laurence Rasti –

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Laurence Rasti –

by Laurence Rasti

An individual is defined as such by the notion of identity. It allows him to build  him or herself on the social, but also on the personal level. However, if this freedom is denied in your own country, you have no other choice than to flee In Denizli, a small town in Turkey, hundreds of gay Iranian refugees transit: they put their lives on hold waiting to eventually find a host country where they can freely live their sexuality. This work questions the fragile concepts of identity and  gender. In this context of uncertainty, it gives these people a face which their country has temporarily stolen

Alma Cecilia Suarez – Jannis

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Alma Cecilia Suarez – Jannis

by Alma Cecilia Suarez

Jannis is a photographic atlas portraying a young Chinese man who migrated  to Singapore. In search of identity, he oscillates between his native culture and western influences. This multifaceted person is portrayed by the play of contrasts between archive images, portraits and writing. These typologies come together to form a complex imaging of this person. Jannis plays with his image and affirms himself through it; its reflection has a universal character.

Manon Wertenbroek – Tandem

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Manon Wertenbroek – Tandem

by Manon Wertenbroek

My diploma work is based on the relationship I have with my brother. The way  I show him in my pictures is characterised by the construction of all the elements composing my photographs. In my images, space is treated as a still life. The objects and settings that I create compose my pictures while giving rise to confusion at the same time. That way, my brother is both visible and difficult to reach. In each portrait my imagination forms itself in three dimensions to connect with my brother. The whole is then flattened by the medium of photography to become the physical frame of my mental images.

Douglas Mandry – Promised Land

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Douglas Mandry – Promised Land

by Douglas Mandry

“It is in response to the standardized representation of the landscape and the possible loss of material references in the digital era that I have developed my project. In an effort to get closer to the process of analog retouching, my photographs are first printed, then reworked, exploiting their physical properties ; the print is punctured, rubbed, modified by adding light and smoke. I employ plays of scale and perception. Captured by the camera, these experiments transfigure the traditional representations of the landscape, oscillating between fantastic and apocalyptic visions, critical and sublime conditions, reckless and romanticized nature.“ www.douglasmandry.com

Charlotte Krieger – Cherry Queen

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Charlotte Krieger – Cherry Queen

by Charlotte Krieger

“My short film attempts to articulate the life of my cousin Sabrina between her native United States and Switzerland where she is studying. The film focuses on issues of beauty, fantasy and uprooting. Following Sabrina enabled me to construct a filmic tension between fiction and non-fiction, that emphasizes the game that Sabrina sometimes played with the camera. By establishing an intimate relationship withmy subject, I tried to recreate the transience, the waiting that impregnate her daily life. Sabrina’s own ideal construction, based on stereotypes of beauty and youth, and oscillating between control and drifting, fascinates me.“

Priscillia Saada – Calypso

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Priscillia Saada – Calypso

by Priscillia Saada

“Water is an indiscriminate mass, offering infinite possibilities, it contains all promises of growth, together with all menaces of absorption/reduction. I question myself in this short movie about the fundamental aspects of water through the sea. The sea which can be purifying, and calm, yet hostile, and rough. It is a source of mystery of which scientists persist to explore the depths. In this way these two worlds are linked and cohabit, in a universe of fantasy which I try to depict by staging silent photographic scenes in a clinical, almost suffocating atmosphere. The major challenge was the use of the video medium. This work allowed me to become aware of the importance of factors such as narration or sound, associated with the photographic vision in creating animated images.“

Romain Mader – Ekaterina

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Romain Mader – Ekaterina

by Romain Mader

“This work was performed in a Ukrainian city founded in 2007 by a group of German investors willing to speculate on the economy of sex tourism. It is a growing industry in the former Soviet Union, world renowned for the exceptional beauty of its women. So welcome to the city of women. It is in this microcosm strictly reserved for women and rich European bachelors looking for sensuality and marital stability, that I decided – after many failures in Switzerland – to seek my future wife. This is how I met Ekaterina, Ekaterina and Ekaterina.“

Philippe Fragnière – Snowpark

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Philippe Fragnière – Snowpark

by Philippe Fragnière

This project proposes an analysis of landscapes modified by human intervention. An undefined landscape, dotted by the presence of functional ephemeral objects, which acquires, through the eye of the camera, a hybrid status halfway between architecture and sculpture. Although they are dedicated to a specific use and built without any sculptural intention, these structures suggest definite relationships with Land Art or minimalism. These objects are voluntarily shown at the same time without any elements able to indicate their size in order to generate an oscillation of the perception; as well as to reveal few elements in a distorted way, but nonetheless a lot of material. This transposition can result in a transformation of these objects into structures which could formally belong to the art piece register, while showing how these same objects generate an aestheticization of the Alpine landscape; a landscape transfigured by shapes inspired by urban patterns.

Collaborations

BLI × ECAL

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BLI × ECAL

with Matthieu Gafsou

The collaboration between the ECAL and the BLI touches on contemporary issues that are of particular concern to students at the school: our relationship with minorities and the appropriate way of representing them. For a long time, a paternalistic anthropological attitude was tolerated and even encouraged in the world of photography. Attitudes have changed, and the young artists at the ECAL have developed a relationship of equals with the various communities they have encountered. Creating the images required a language that enabled the students to position themselves in relation to others and to establish protocols in line with their own values and those of the people on the other side of the lens. The images give us a complex, multifaceted panorama of our city's cultural diversity, and show us that encounters and mixes are possible and fruitful. Matthieu Gafsou, photographer and teacher.

ECAL × JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: Under Your Smell

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ECAL × JEAN PAUL GAULTIER: Under Your Smell

with Milo Keller, Florence Tétier, Nicolas Coulomb, Calypso Mahieu

The exhibition Under Your Smell offers a hypnotic and immersive experience in Jean Paul Gaultier's headquarters by imagining new definitions of beauty and body expression. Under the direction of Florence Tétier and Nicolas Coulomb, 3rd year Bachelor Photography students brought to life the brand's iconic perfumes through an immersive photographic experience. In the first season, with the complicity of Claude Emmanuelle Gajan Maull, the young photographers have fluidified the iconic bottles with their gendered silhouettes — Le Mâle, Le Classique, Le Beau and La Belle — in a fresh LGBTQIA+ perspective. With this upcoming season, the project evolves around the Scandal fragrance, with the creation of still lives in which the liquid, dry and organic contrasting textures evoke the essence of the perfume, its bottle design and its complexities. Through staging, the perfumes become the backdrop for stories of transgression and fantastical projections. In addition to monumental fabric prints, giant image-cushions welcome the public to lay down and celebrate gender fluidity and the ever changing definitions of beauty and self expression.

Hans Emmeneger - Fondation de l'Hermitage

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Hans Emmeneger - Fondation de l'Hermitage

with Philippe Jarrigeon, Milo Keller

During the retrospective organized by the Hermitage Foundation, photography students from ECAL/École cantonale d'art de Lausanne pay tribute to this little-known artist. Without having seen his works beforehand, they explore his universe through the analysis of reproductions and some biographical elements. Throughout the semester, students delve into the mysteries of Emmenegger's work, pondering what his paintings could reveal under an X-ray scanner or how he would have used photography if given the opportunity. They employ contemporary techniques such as analog and digital photography, video, and 3D software to offer personal and poetic interpretations of his work. Their creations, presented as part of the retrospective, provide fresh perspectives on Emmenegger's oeuvre and invite viewers to discover this mysterious artist through the eyes of ECAL students. Exhibition at the Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne June 25 to October 31, 2021

Carhartt WIP × ECAL

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Carhartt WIP × ECAL

with Nicolas Poillot

Earlier this year, Carhartt WIP (for Work in Progress) teamed up with ECAL, inviting Bachelor Photography students to interpret in their own way some of the emblematic pieces of the American clothing brand, which develops its own collections from the original Carhartt work clothes. The students, led by art director Nicolas Poillot, produced an editorial report, which was included in the latest issue of "WIP Magazine" published by Carhartt WIP and some of whose images will be exhibited at the ECAL on the occasion of the launch of this book.

D'HEYGERE

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D'HEYGERE

with Philippe Jarrigeon

As part of a course led by Philippe Jarrigeon, 2nd-year Bachelor of Photography students at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne were asked to work in the world of D'heygere jewelry and accessories. Between luxury and the ordinary, reality and representation, the students proposed new ways of interpreting the provocative, minimalist pieces.

Workshop Mode Suisse

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Workshop Mode Suisse

with Noir Associates, Peter Puklus

lt is with great pleasure that we are presenting a selection of works by students of the Bachelor's degree courses in Photography and Graphic Design, curated by photographer Peter Puklus for Mode Suisse Edition 15. The workshop initiated by Noir Associates and carried out in November 2018, aim to produce the current Mode Suisse campaign through a interdisciplinary business-oriented youth promotion collaboration. The outcome of this workshop was so convincing that the means of communication for both Mode Suisse editions in 2019 will be implemented in cooperation with the ECAL students, beginning with work from Raphaèle Rey, Hugo Plagnard and Théo Barraud. The beginning of this fledgling collaboration is marked by the students' smart approach to meeting the needs of MADE VISIBLE, whose partnership with Mode Suisse is a way of making creativity visible in unexpected ways. Work has already started on the collaboration highlights to be shown at the end of summer 2019, at Mode Suisse Edition 16. Main partners: Engagement Migros, The Zurich Silk Association ZSIG, the Hulda and Gustav Zumsteg Foundation and The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia

Image Vevey × Confrérie des Vignerons

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Image Vevey × Confrérie des Vignerons

with Jonas Marguet, Milo Keller

From Lavaux to the Chablais region of Vaud, the world of wine was reinterpreted for a semester by students in their 2nd year of the Bachelor of Photography programme at ECAL/Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, in collaboration with the Confrérie des Vignerons. Under the guidance of Jonas Marguet, photographer and teacher, the students used clues gathered in the field from the winegrowers. Selected and presented as part of the Festival Images Vevey, Elisa Ribeiro's 'Nuisibles' series sheds light on an unexpected aspect of winegrowing. She paints a gallery of portraits of insects that ravage vines, using a scanning electron microscope. By reappropriating a scientific tool for artistic purposes, she reveals the extraordinary, invisible to the naked eye. This work questions the very foundations of the photographic image, the process of taking the picture being carried out here by means of a beam of electrons. These tiny pests appear like giant monsters, presented in large light boxes that evoke the illumination of microscopic observation. Musée de la Confrérie des Vignerons Rue du Château 2 1800 Vevey www.confreriedesvignerons.ch www.images.ch

Collaboration with Thierry Mugler

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Collaboration with Thierry Mugler

with Philippe Jarrigeon

Mugler’s heritage reinterpreted through the eyes of eighteen students of the 2nd year photography Bachelor course at the ECAL. A collaborative project led by the professor and acclaimed photographer Philippe Jarrigeon based on photographic and video works on 18 archive creations.

ZENITH X ECAL

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ZENITH X ECAL

with Philippe Jarrigeon

To celebrate the anniversary of the iconic "El Primero" movement, a class of second-year photography students set out to explore the world of Zenith. Guided by fashion photographer and teacher Philippe Jarrigeon, the students worked at the Manufacture in Le Locle and in the studios of ECAL in Lausanne to create visuals specifically designed to be exhibited around the world.

NOVEMBRE X ECAL

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NOVEMBRE X ECAL

with Nicolas Coulomb, Jeanne-Salomé Rochat, Florence Tétier

At the occasion of Paris Photo 2017, Novembre Magazine & ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne present a performative photography exhibition and a special issue of the magazine. This special issue and this exhibition present a selection of images produced through a period of four years during workshops conducted by Novembre Magazine in the Photography Department of ECAL. Through the eyes of over 60 students,it becomes a kaleidoscopic snapshot of contemporary attitudes towards the body and new definitions of beauty, encouraging a truly interdisciplinary approach to photography.

Walk with Pierre Hardy

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Walk with Pierre Hardy

with Philippe Jarrigeon

On the occasion of Paris Photo, Pierre Hardy & the ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne present the exhibition "Walk with Pierre Hardy". Fifteen iconic models by the designer were visually reinterpreted by the students of Bachelor Photography under the direction of Philippe Jarrigeon. Additionally, a luxurious special publication marks the occasion. To be discovered from 11 to 13 November 2016 (10 am to 7 pm) at the Pierre Hardy boutique (9-11 Place du Palais-Bourbon). “I really enjoyed interacting with the students. At ECAL, my role was very different from that of a teacher coaching the students on their work – as I myself was the subject I knew the stuff inside out! Just show me half a centimetre of a heel and I instantly recognise the model which I created”, says Pierre Hardy. The ECAL Bachelor Photography students thus worked on various collections produced by the Parisian designer in the past fifteen years in order to give them a new visual interpretation. Photographer Philippe Jarrigeon comments on the method he chose to conduct this workshop at ECAL: “Together with Pierre Hardy’s team we selected fifteen pairs of shoes in the archives – a purely practical decision which allowed us to keep the models as long as we wanted at ECAL. In addition, this allowed students to free themselves from seasonal trends. At the beginning of the workshop in October 2015, each student got a model on which to work by drawing lots”. This project allowed the students to question the relationship between photography and footwear, and by extension to confront the interconnection between photography and fashion. Milo Keller, Head of Photography at ECAL, observes that “Students, working without any business constraints in that case, are less formatted than a professional and therefore often offer unexpected approaches”. The results are indeed surprising and offbeat, sometimes even provocative or poetic, but always treat the original creations with respect. "Walk with Pierre Hardy" Publication Text (French): conversation between Pierre Hardy, Philippe Jarrigeon and Milo Keller Transcript: Sylvain Menétrey Softcover, 220 × 280 mm, 52 pages, 48 colour images, November 2016 ISBN: 978-2-9700962-9-0 Price: CHF 15 / EUR 15

ECAL at Festival Images Vevey

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ECAL at Festival Images Vevey

by Florian Amoser, Marvin Leuvrey

From 10 September to 2 October 2016, Festival Images Vevey will once again transform the little town of Vevey into the Swiss capital of photography. Visitors will get to discover  75 projects  based on the theme of ‘immersion. Besides the numerous graduates, ECAL offers various installations: ----- ECAL/Florian Amoser –  Quai Maria Belgia Quantified Landscape introduces an ongoing research project on the photographic transposition of space on a flat surface. Deep in the heart of underground galleries, Florian Amoser maps out the relief by placing a motor-mounted laser on the ground. The light beam slowly sweeps the walls of the cave, thereby drawing a continuous line according to the principle of contour lines. These long exposures create black and white landscapes that refer as much to analogue practice as to the digital finish of 3D modelling. These pictures are exhibited on display panels facing Lake Geneva. Original scenography by Festival Images Vevey ----- ECAL/Marvin Leuvrey – Quai Maria Belgia Revelations offers a fantasy-like narrative by immersing into Lake Geneva images of fragmented bathers. Leuvrey combines photography with visual research by applying soil, sand and trash collected from the lakeside onto the negatives and trying out various experiments with acetone, paint and oil. He also integrates water into his work by using the lake as a developing bath. By inviting visitors to tread on the images exhibited on platforms along the waterfront, the installation which starts off on Quai Maria Belgia prolongs the experimental process that Leuvrey uses on his photographs. Original scenography by Festival Images Vevey and Bachelor Industrial Design students (Margaux De Giovannini, Maki Nakaya-Sommet, Mélanie Zufferey). ----- ECAL PhotoJukeBox – La Ferblanterie Photography and music have much closer ties than we might think. Many musicians have paid tribute in one form or another to this mode of artistic expression, including Paul Simon (Kodachrome), Neil Young (Distant Camera), Lady Gaga (Paparazzi), Kraftwerk (Das Model), Barbara (Si la photo est bonne), Eddy Mitchell (La photo des jours heureux), Duran Duran (Girls on Film), The Cure (Pictures of You), Depeche Mode (Photographic) and Ringo Starr (Photograph). Festival Images has invited some thirty first-year Bachelor Photography students from ECAL to produce in one day a video clip for a song. The result is presented in the form of a jukebox that enables festivalgoers to select and listen to a tune by their favourite artist while enjoying a tailor-made video clip. A production by Festival Images Vevey and ECAL . Curating: Stefano Stoll, Milo Keller ----- ECAL Scenography Bachelor of Industrial Design students worked on orginal scenography to present the projects of the various artists. ----- Festival Images Vevey Information Dates: 10 September – 2 October 2016 Free entrance Opening: Saturday 10 September Opening hours for indoor exhibitions: Every day, 11:00-19:00 Festival Images is an outdoor photography festival, which encourages you to walk around the city to discover installations on walls, in streets and in parks.

Workshops

Workshop with Taiyo Onorato

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Workshop with Taiyo Onorato

with Taiyo Onorato

This workshop focused on staged photography, particularly emphasizing staged portraits. The concentration was on the two essential elements of the portrait: working with the object and manipulating its background. Staged portraits set themselves apart from mere snapshots by actively creating an image, steering clear of reality. Tools like light, background, and pose were employed to craft a deliberate narrative. Individuals were staged, altered in specific ways, adorned with outfits and masks. The workshop delved into the interest in masks as tools for transformation and representation. Throughout the workshop, masks were produced using available means, and they became the central objects of staging. Students photographed and filmed them, capturing the essence of transformation. The second element of the workshop, which focused on the background, pop-up techniques were experimented with. The backdrop, a dynamic part of the narrative, was manipulated using cleverly designed sets and unexpected spatial techniques. The focus was not just on capturing moments but on crafting them, bringing forth stories that transcended the boundaries of reality. The workshop provided a platform for unleashing creativity and experimentation.

Workshop Geray Mena

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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.

Workshop with Elizaveta Porodina

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Workshop with Elizaveta Porodina

by Maude Bally, Ettore Bruni, Adel Debabéche, Rebecca Dubuis, Sofia Grytsiv, Belinda Kiela, Lester Kielstein, Eliot Pizzera, Melanie Rengifo, Inès Riber, Ashley Schneiter, Héloïse Tourrenc, Kristina Yenza, Johanna Bommer, Jennica Folkesson, Lorane Hochstätter, Cyriane Rawyler, Seraphine Sallin-Mason, Rose Graf, Lee Eggenschwiler, Fredrik Maag, Emanuele Delpozzo, Hector Codazzi, Maël Le Guével

For this workshop, Elizaveta Porodina asked the students to explore the theme "AFTERHUMAN". This theme opens up perspectives for capturing futuristic landscapes, representing the potential fusion of technology and humanity. Think about visually depicting the coexistence of artificial intelligence, cybernetics or biotechnology with natural elements. Experiment with innovative techniques to convey a sense of evolution or transcendence. This exploration invites photographers to creatively interpret and visually narrate a future beyond conventional human experience.

Vampire week

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Vampire week

with Jean-Vincent Simonet

During one week, the students developed techniques that transform perception and the relationship with the corpus of images: erasure, displacement, loss of the sensation of reality.

The Indecisive Moment

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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.

Workshop Peter Knapp

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Workshop Peter Knapp

by 2 BAPH

Summer University CUBA

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Summer University CUBA

<meta charset="UTF-8"> After marking the history of the twentieth century with major episodes, Cuba must confront a new historical turning point. Obama's opening speeches and the death of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution of 1959, push the country towards a paradigm shift without priors. Partial liberalisation measures (restaurants, taxis and tourist activities) create an uncertain balance between mass tourism and Communist historical anchorage. The will of the workshop led by Milo Keller (head of photography) and Vincent Jacquier (Head of visual communication) was to rethink the visual relationship that the collective imaginary maintains with Cuba. It was for the students to get out of the tourist cliché, be it the old American car, the colorful colonial houses or the cigar. In partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in Cuba, this week has been punctuated by many cultural visits. Exchanges with institutions such as the Instituto Superio de Arte (ISA) and the Fototeca de Cuba, as well as meetings with photographers who have worked for decades in Cuba as Sven Creutzmann and Vives-Figueroa, allowed an understanding finer Cuban culture, with exchanges around photographic, educational and policy approaches. The architecture has been one of the major themes, whether through visits to buildings of Porro and Gottardi, or even a visit to the Swiss Ambassador's residence, designed by Richard Neutra. With the help of the Embassy of Switzerland, the students were guided by four local photographers: Raul Canibano, Chino Arcos, Gabriel Guerra and Lissette Solórzano and they were able to get in places and invisible to tourists Havana networks. The projects are varied: technology report was addressed by Margaux Piette in a film about the hot spots Wifi scattered through the city. but also in the photos of Ivo Fovanna centered on the package, physical network for the exchange of files hacked; or in the film of Tatiana Mégevand on tourism activities Airbnb and economic change involved. The social characteristics of Cuba themselves in the series Olivia Schenker and Julien Deceroi. The first has made portraits of LGBTQ minority which enjoys a special acceptance on the island. The second makes us discover Santería, majority religion in Cuba of Christian inspiration and Voodoo. Imported cultural trends was put forward by the skaters in the movie of Pierre-Kastriot Jashari and more vernacular aspects are revealed in this series of Vincent Levrat pigeons collected on roofs by the inhabitants of Havana. The eighteen projects of this workshop were presented in the form of a projection at the Fototeca of Cuba on Vendredi8 December, in the presence of the Swiss ambassador, Mr Stutz and local photographers. This workshop was an opportunity of discovery cultural and social, but also a framework that helped improve the autonomy and ambition projectual students.

Summer University Rio de Janeiro

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Summer University Rio de Janeiro

Junk Museum

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Junk Museum

with Thomas Mailaender

This workshop, directed by Thomas Mailaender, was aimed at students in the second year of their Bachelor's degree in Photography. The students were immersed in the art of physically constructing an image and its presentation device. The idea was to broaden their artistic horizons through an awareness of installation, scenography and sculpture. The creative atmosphere of the workshop was enriched by a bold touch, where the singular smell of waste added an unexpected sensory dimension, transforming each creation into a unique exploration. Thomas Mailaender challenged the students to push the boundaries of photographic creativity. The project then took the form of an exhibition in Chavannes-Près-Renens. At the heart of this immersive experience, images were projected, hung, cut and superimposed, giving rise to unique, innovative and immersive works.

Workshop Survival Camp

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Workshop Survival Camp

with Thomas Mailaender

During this workshop, the artist and the second-year Bachelor students spent a week living in a forest in western Lausanne. The shock of being deprived of the usual comforts such as running water, electricity and heating motivated the students to produce an enormous quantity of images. Cooking over an open fire, sleeping under the stars, hunting and fishing were all part of their daily lives, and provided the perfect backdrop for visual experimentation. The responses were manifold, from still to moving images, some dealing directly with delirious contemporary camping. The common denominators of all the works are humor and off-beatness. During Paris Photo, the results are presented in the form of an installation in the unusual urban setting of Les Voûtes. After the week-long workshop in Switzerland, all the students worked with Thomas Mailaender on the design and production of the exhibition. The students experienced a week of installation in total immersion: they lived in the exhibition as they built it. The images are presented in a raw environment, a sort of village, a makeshift camp. This whole process enabled them to confront not only the shooting process, but also the question of producing and exhibiting the images to the public. The exhibition is accompanied by a two-color catalogue-journal produced by the students and printed at the ECAL.

Semester projects

PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE

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PRATIQUE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE

with Nicolas Poillot

The "Commission & Photography" course aims to conceptualize and produce visual content for an editorial series, emphasizing applied photography and collaboration with an Art Director. It allows students to explore various photographic territories such as editorial, documentary, fashion, still life, and fiction. Objectives include understanding editorial commissions, conceptualizing and presenting ideas, as well as effectively collaborating with an Art Director. Students are required to produce a series of images while adhering to the given theme and constraints, while also developing preliminary research, a structured methodology, series architecture, and finding solutions to creative problems encountered. The theme involves each student selecting and photographing three personal objects that are particularly meaningful to them.

Photographic revelation

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Photographic revelation

with Laurence Bonvin

Endurance In this course, the objectives are to allow students to experiment with new approaches or techniques regarding past, ongoing, or diploma projects. They also have the opportunity to revisit and refine subjects that have not met their satisfaction in terms of concept, form, technique, or execution. This experience aims to expand ideas, refine techniques, continue unfinished work while improving it, or build a more comprehensive body of images. Endurance lies at the heart of this process, whether it's persevering in completing a project, revisiting an idea until it's exhausted, or overcoming obstacles such as lack of time, self-confidence, or courage. This semester thus offers students the opportunity to confront their limits, surpass them, and achieve their best in their endeavors.

Fine Art Photography

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Fine Art Photography

with Natacha Lesueur

Seduce, they said Based on projects developed around the theme of seduction, students develop a personal, in-depth project over the whole semester.

Workshop Photographic chamber

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Workshop Photographic chamber

with Matthieu Gafsou

The workshop week 4x5 is both an introduction to the 4x5 technical camera and a way to kickstart a photographic project. Students experience the process of analog shooting, from development to large format printing. This intense week is highly technical, but also focused on developing a photographic language, allowing for a better understanding of the fundamental workings of photography.

Staged Photography

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Staged Photography

with Charlotte Krieger

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the creation and management of a complex photographic project involving sets, characters and lighting. The theme is free.

Fine Art Photography

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Fine Art Photography

with Natacha Lesueur

Seduce, they said Based on projects developed around the theme of seduction, students develop a personal, in-depth project over the whole semester.

Video

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Video

with Orsola Valenti

Image, sound and politics: how to raise the image The main aim of the course is to stimulate reflection on the audiovisual gesture. By confronting students with the complexity of audiovisual creation and its compositional dimension (image and sound, space and time, frame and rhythm, body and set), they are encouraged to grasp its richness and potential.

Images and movement

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Images and movement

with Olivia Schenker

During one semester, the students made a very short film on the theme of Simulations. They acquired fundamental notions in the narrative, visual, and conceptual development of a video production.

Workshop Photographic chamber

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Workshop Photographic chamber

with Matthieu Gafsou

The workshop week 4x5 is both an introduction to the 4x5 technical camera and a way to kickstart a photographic project. Students experience the process of analog shooting, from development to large format printing. This intense week is highly technical, but also focused on developing a photographic language, allowing for a better understanding of the fundamental workings of photography.

Photographic Hanging

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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?

Photographic Essays

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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.

Photographic Editions

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Photographic Editions

with RVB Books/Matthieu Charon & Rémi Faucheux

Using pre-produced images, the students created one or more book models. How do you transform a series of photographs into a book? The Photographic Editions course introduces students to the selection of images, their order, format, graphics, ink, paper and binding. It addresses the specificities of the book as a medium and as a market.

Program

This section lists the detailed modules and courses for each semester of the programme.

Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3 Semester 4 Semester 5 Semester 6

Photographic and cinematographic practice I
10 ECTS
  • Photographic Practice
  • Photography/Art Project
  • Film Creation
Project Week I
4 ECTS
  • Technology I
  • Technology II
Transversal Skills I
10 ECTS
  • Graphic design

  • Photography
  • Interaction Design
  • 2D / 3D Sequence
Theory I
6 ECTS
  • History of Art (opt.)
  • History of Photography (opt.)
  • History of Cinema (opt.)
  • History of Video Games
  • Contemporary Photography, Exhibitions and Publications
Photographic and cinematographic practice II
10 ECTS
  • Photographic Practice
  • Photography/Art Project
  • Film Creation
Project Week II
4 ECTS
  • Technology III
  • Collaboration I
Transversal Skills II
10 ECTS
  • Graphic design

  • Photography
  • Interaction Design
  • 2D / 3D Sequence
Theory II
6 ECTS
  • History of Art (opt.)
  • History of Photography (opt.)
  • History of Cinema (opt.)
  • History of Video Games
  • Contemporary Photography, Exhibitions and Publications
Photography practice and technologies I
6 ECTS
  • Photographic Practice
  • Lecturer's Workshop
Photography Projects I
12 ECTS
  • Documentary Photography I
  • Cine-photography I
  • Photographic Exhibitions I

Transversal Skills III
6 ECTS
  • VR Sequence

  • Book Design 
Theory III
6 ECTS
  • Information & Communication
  • Global Visions
  • History of Photography
Photography practice and technologies II
6 ECTS
  • Photographic Practice

  • Lecturer's Workshop
Photography Projects II
12 ECTS
  • Documentary Photography II
  • Cine-photography II
  • Photographic Exhibitions II

Transversal Skills IV
6 ECTS
  • Clip Sequence

  • Magazine Design

Theory IV
6 ECTS
  • Information & Communication
  • Global Visions
  • History of Photography
  • Introduction to the Thesis
Photography practices
9 ECTS
  • Photobooks
  • Photographic Project
Photography Projects III
9 ECTS
  • Photographic Creation
  • Photographic Installation
Transversal Skills V
6 ECTS
  • Digital Editorial Design
Theory V
6 ECTS
  • Thesis
Diploma Studio
6 ECTS
Theory VI
6 ECTS
Diploma Jury
18 ECTS
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Alumni

Philippe Fragnière
Maxime Guyon
Charlotte Krieger
Calypso Mahieu
Douglas Mandry
Charles Negre
Jean-Vincent Simonet
Anja Schori
Career Opportunities

Photographer of architecture, design, fashion or still life, Documentary photographer, Photo artist, Art director, Photo editor, Director of photography, Teacher…

Other alumni

(BA and MA Photography) Anoush Abrar, Philippe Fragnière, Erwan Frotin, Yann Gross, Nicolas Haeni, Raphael Hefti, Philippe Jarrigeon, Florian Joye, Matthieu Lavanchy, Milo Keller, Namsa Leuba, Catherine Leutenegger, David Luraschi, Romain Mader, Jonas Marguet, Adrien Missika, Cyril Porchet, Laurence Rasti, Maya Rochat, Reto Schmid, Sebastian Stadler, Joël Tettamanti, Manon Wertenbroek…

Staff

Heads of department

Visual Communication Department
Vincent Jacquier

Bachelor Photography
Milo Keller

Coordination

Artistic assistant
Calypso Mahieu
Julien Gurtner

Assistants
Achille Masson
Angèle Marignac Serra
Gaetan Udry
Sara De Brito Faustino

Technology Center
Jamy Herrmann
Matthieu Minguet
Vincent Jacquier

Professors

Anoush Abrar
Calypso Mahieu
Joël Vacheron, Lisbon
Laurence Bonvin, Lisbon
Milo Keller
Natacha Lesueur, Paris

Multidisciplinary fields professors

Angelo Benedetto
Anouk Schneider
Antonio Albanese
Claus Gunti
Pauline Saglio
Tonathiu Ambrosetti
Vincent Jacquier
Violène Pont

Lecturers

Angelo Cirimele, Paris
Chi-Long Trieu
Elodie Anglade
Estelle Blaschke, Basel
Giliane Cachin, Zurich
Laurence Salmon, Paris
Léonard Guyot
Lionel Tardy
Matthieu Charon (RVB Books)
Matthieu Gafsou
Mehdi Derfoufi, Paris
Mélanie Boissonneau, Paris
Mélanie Courtinat
Nathalie Herschdorfer
Orsola Valenti
Philippe Jarrigeon, Paris
Pierre Doze, Paris
Rémi Faucheux (RVB Books)
Robert Huber
Sami Benhadj, Paris

Visiting lecturers

Anouk Kruithof, Brussels
Antje Peters, Berlin
Antony Cairns, London
Augustin Rebetez
Christian Patterson, New York
Daniel Sannwald, London
Erik Kessels, Amsterdam
Francesco Zanot, Milan
Harri Peccinotti, Paris
Ina Jang, New York
Joachim Schmid, Berlin
Julien Gallico, Paris
Jürgen Teller, London
Lucas Blalock, New York
Lukas Wassmann, Zurich
Maya Rochat
Mazaccio & Drowilal, Toulouse
Melanie Bonajo, Berlin
Mirjam Wirz, Zurich
Nico Krebs (Tonk), Berlin
Nicolas Poilot (Études), Paris
Noémie Goudal, Paris
Olaf Breuning, New York
Paolo Roversi, Paris
Peter Knapp, Klosters
Peter Puklus, Budapest
Pierre Debusschere, Brussels
Pieter Hugo, Cape Town
Ren Hang †, Bejing
Renate Buser, Munich
Ruth Erdt, Zurich
Stefan Burger, Zurich
Taiyo Onorato (Tonk), Berlin
Théo Mercier, Paris
Thomas Mailaender, Paris
Thomas Traum, London
Viktoria Binschtok, Berlin
Walter Pfeiffer, Zurich
Yann Gross