Four exciting days which will allow you to explore new photographic spaces with simplicity every day, an opportunity for everyone to step out of their comfort zone a little and try new paths, new approaches.

Every day, through concrete instructions and practical advice, Jean-Christophe Béchet will invite participants to develop their practice and their photographic culture through field research and exchanges of experiences, but also through the discovery of several authors.

Three main families, three photographic genres will be explored: street photography, landscape photography and portraits. So many different areas, experienced through simple instructions, which will stimulate everyone's approach. An approach in which one of the challenges will be to gradually develop a personal style, whatever the areas explored.

The four days will be friendly and very practical, in the field but also during the editing sessions. Certain theoretical aspects will be addressed but making sure not to get lost in too many complexities, subtleties, details. The idea being above all that the photographic fields addressed remain "pretexts" to go beyond one's own approach, creating new axes, inviting to new correspondences between the photographs taken, opening new playing fields.

The last day will be largely devoted to the creation of a coherent photographic ensemble which will then be printed and exhibited at the end of the day.

The Workshop is held in french (with English translation if necessary).


JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BÉCHET
Born in Marseille in 1964, Jean-Christophe Béchet has lived and worked in Paris since 1990. He studied economics and photography at ENSP in Arles before working as a photographer for the press, publishers and galleries. He created the special supplements section for the magazine Réponses Photo and was its editor-in-chief until 2014. Mr. Béchet develops his work one book at a time. Since Marval published “Electric’Cités” in 2002, Trans Photographic Press has come out with 15 monographs of his work, including “Tokyo Station”, “Vues n°0, un manifeste photographique”, “American Puzzle”, “Marseille Ville Natale” and “7 Carnets”. He also wrote Petite Philosophie Pratique de la Prise de vue Photographique (Créaphis). He has just published European Puzzle (Loco) and participated in several shows. Mr. Béchet is represented by “Les Douches, la Galerie” (5, rue Legouvé, Paris 10^th).
Website: Jean-Christophe Béchet

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Face-to-face training
Location: historic center of Arles
Mobility: stairs to access the building and for several interior rooms (contact us)
Number of participants: between 6 and 10 people
Start of the photo course on the first day: 10:00 a.m.
End of the photo course on the last day: 7:00 p.m. followed by a group presentation until 9:00 p.m.
Hours on other days: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Possibility to bring your meal and eat on site during the lunch break

CONTENT
- Study and analysis of the photographs taken
- Daily shooting
- Technical session with a digital camera
- Definition of a personal subject
- Selections of the photographs taken

BRING
- A selection of around 30 images attesting to your practice (preferably on paper/format of your choice)
- Your camera, charger and cables
- 2 or 3 memory cards
- A Mac-compatible hard drive or your computer if you wish
- Clothing, bag, shoes, etc. appropriate for spending several hours outdoors.

TEACHING METHOD
- Taught by an instructor (contact us for more information)

EQUIPMENT
- Mac computers
- A photo library (app. 500 references)
- Various kinds of lighting systems, studio accessories, tripod, etc.

EVALUATION
- Private end-of-course interview and evaluation
- The instructor continuously evaluates the personal series
- Oral end-of-course evaluation

FORMALISATION AT THE END OF THE COURSE
- End-of-course certificate

CONTACTS AND INFORMATION
Les Rencontres d’Arles
Siret: 309 952 489 000 32
Activity declaration number: 93 13 002 55 13
Marie Couteux & Marion Brun stage@rencontres-arles.com
+33(0) 490 967 606