ENSP photo workshops
The ENSP offers photo workshops with Aurore Valade. The practical and technical workshops propose an introduction to photography alongside theoretical and historical considerations. The work produced over the year will be brought together in a group presentation. These courses are in French.
The ENSP propose two groups for the 2024-2025 session:
Beginner Course | Switching to manual mode
Getting started with the digital camera and discovering the technical and artistic possibilities of photography.
5 intensive days – 1 session of your choice:
→ from Wednesday 30 October to Sunday 3 November 2024
→ from Wednesday 7 to Sunday 11 May 2025
This workshop is for anyone who wants to learn about photography, and offers support for those who want to get to grips with a digital camera by practising shooting on a variety of themes.
→ Prerequisites: No prior photographic knowledge is required. The trainee is invited to come with a digital camera that allows working in manual mode. The loan of a camera by the school is possible on request. It’s important to have your camera’s instruction manual to hand during the course and to start identifying the various buttons and knobs that we’ll be learning to select together.
→ Aims: By tackling technical and theoretical concepts followed by practical exercises, the workshop aims initially to make people self-sufficient in handling the camera. A variety of shooting situations and the discovery of inspiring photographers will enable participants to explore different aesthetic languages so that they can discover their own photographic sensibility.
→ Programme : The sessions are organised around a theoretical part (auditorium or study room) and practical exercises (studio, common areas of the school or outside).
The intensive course is open to anyone over the age of 18.
Number of participants: maximum 16
Advanced Group | Exploring photographic languages
One Saturday per month from November 20214 to June 2025 at the school.
This workshop is for people who want to share their experience with a group around common themes to build a coherent photographic series and develop their creativity by exploring the diversity of photographic languages.
→ Prerequisites: mastery of the basic principles of shooting in manual mode or ability to make progress on getting to grips with one’s camera independently. Knowledge, even basic, of image processing software and/or ability to adapt to the computer world.
→ Aims: Based around common shooting themes, trainees will be invited to develop their photographic writing. The aim will be to explore new languages and themes, and around the delicate stage of editing, to learn how to sort, combine and retouch their images, in order to make them interact in a coherent way.
→ Programme : Shooting sessions (studio and outdoor) are combined with image processing workshops in the computer graphics room (Lightroom software) and time for critical reading of images (auditorium or study room).
The school’s resources – auditorium, workrooms, studio and library – will be made available for the workshops.
The workshops are open to anyone over the age of 18.
Number of participants: maximum 20
Beginner course
5 intensive days (10 a.m. › 1 p.m. and 2 › 5 p.m.) :
→ from Wednesday 30 October to Sunday 3 November 2024
→ du mercredi 7 au dimanche 11 mai 2025
Advanced Group
8 Saturday sessions of 6 heures : (10 a.m. › 1 p.m. and 2 › 5 p.m.)
→ 9 November 2024
→ 7 December 2024
→ 18 January 2025
→ 1er février 2025
→ 15 March 2025
→ 26 April 2025
→ 24 May 2025
→ 21 June 2025
Beginner course
→ Full rate : 550€
→ Reduced rate : 275€ (RSA beneficiaries, jobseekers, students, under 25 years of age – on presentation of recent proof – less than 3 months old)
Advanced Group
→ Full rate : 700€
→ Reduced rate : 350€ (RSA beneficiaries, jobseekers, students, under 25 years of age – on presentation of recent proof – less than 3 months old)
→ Pre-registration takes place on the school registration platform – click on the button ‘Enroll’
→ The registration platform is open from the 9th September 2024
→ Places available : Beginner Course 16 places (+18ans) | Advanced Group 20 places (+18ans)
→ Places will be given on a first-come first-served basis within the limit of available places. Please choose a group according to your level.
→ No registrations/enrollments will be accepted after the start of the sessions
→ Once your registration has been confirmed by the ENSP you will be sent a contrat to sign and payment details.
→ Payment must be made in full before the 15th of October. Any place not paid for in full at this date will be offered to the waiting list.
→ Registration fees once paid are non-refundable. Exceptions can only be made for absences for serious medical reasons upon presentation of a justifying document.
Born in 1981 in Villeneuve Sur Lot, Aurore Valade lives and works in Arles.
A graduate of the École des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux and the l’École nationale supérieure de la photographie, she was an artist member of the Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France à Madrid in 2015/2016. her work of participative portraits has won a number of prizes (Photo Folio Review prize, Rencontres d’Arles 2017, Prix du Musée d’art moderne de Collioure 2006, etc).
Aurore Valade regularly exhibits in France and abroad. She has published a number of photo books including Grand Miroir (Actes Sud), Plein Air and Moulinages (Diaphane) as well as an artist’s book Révoltes Intimes (Asimétricas). She is represented in Italy by the gallery Gagliardi e Domke in Turin, by l’agence Cendrine Gabaret in Paris and is a member of the platform Documents d’artistes PACA.
