The \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de la photographie was founded in Arles in 1982, nine years after the creation of the international photography festival, now known as Les Rencontres d\u00b4Arles, by Lucien Clergue, Maryse Cordesse and Alain Desvergnes who came together to create a place of study and training at university level, around the practice of photography and its technical, aesthetic, cultural and social implications.<\/p>\n
For nearly 40 years, from 1982 to 2019, the school occupied one of the finest private hotels in Arles, l\u2019H\u00f4tel Quiqueran de Beaujeu, at 16 rue des Ar\u00e8nes, where the former chapel served as a gallery, the Galerie Arena, for the students.<\/p>\n
In 2019, a new school building designed by architect Marc Barani as a transparent space open to the public, was inaugurated. The students and staff of the school moved into the building at the start of 2020.<\/p>\n
The new building is open to all at street level, with an 185-seat auditorium and 450 m\u00b2 of exhibition space.<\/p>\n
The more private intermediate floor is organized around a courtyard and includes spaces where students and the public can come together. On this floor there are three demonstration rooms, the library with over 30,000 works and classrooms dedicated to professional training (Formation continue).<\/p>\n
The lower floor, at garden level, houses most of the teaching spaces as well as colour and black and white analogue and digital laboratories, arranged around an open space where students can share and discuss their work whatever the printing technique used. The school is one of the last establishments – perhaps the last – to continue the practice of traditional processes alongside the most up to date photographic and audiovisuel techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure de la photographie was founded in Arles in 1982, nine years after the creation of the international photography festival, now known as Les Rencontres d\u00b4Arles, by Lucien Clergue, Maryse Cordesse and Alain Desvergnes who came together to create a place of study and training at university level, around the practice of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":945,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-TEMPLATE_PAGE.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-954","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n