SUMMER WORKSHOP 2025

Laurence LEBLANC

Beneath the surface of reality

From Mon 18 August to Fri 22 August 2025

35 hours on 5 day(s)

820,00€ - 5 jours - Tarif en autofinancement 2025

First payment of 30%: 14 days after registration (withdrawal period expires)
Second payment of 70%: After starting the course

CONTACT & INFORMATION
Marie Couteux & Fabrice Courthial
stage@rencontres-arles.com
0490967606

Add to basket

Starting from what surrounds us and choosing to tell it with one's own perspective, one's own distance and finding one's poetry, one's prose.

To do this, Laurence Leblanc will first accompany the participants in the field, in several places that are geographically close but very different in their nature and function. Living spaces, in use or abandoned, remarkable for their heritage wealth or rigorously functional, places where one meets one's contemporaries or only a few memories of those who have passed through.

So many territories and people that will be the starting point and the pretext for a narration, sometimes starting from a simple detail, an atmosphere, a story or an encounter. A trigger because consciously or not, it will resonate with a past experience, a center of interest, a personal desire.

It will then be a question of leading an exploration guided by sensitivity, curiosity, questioning; to simply pull a thread and follow its contours, its intersections, its hooks to gradually weave a story.

The work guided by Laurence Leblanc, will go through editing sessions, to specify the approach, to look for correspondences.
Daily discussions and reflections will bring meaning, coherence, texture and then end up with a personal series that will be exhibited on the last day.

It will be about re-enchanting oneself by becoming aware of a photograph within reach.
Because photography has the capacity to be an act of communication, of transformation, special attention will be paid daily in order to weave a bond together, with others, in a constant concern for sharing and kindness.

Starting from what surrounds us and choosing to tell it with one's own perspective, one's own distance and finding one's poetry, one's prose. The work guided by Laurence Leblanc, will go through editing sessions, to clarify the approach, to look for correspondences.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Face-to-face training course
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 own meal and eat on site during the break meridian

CONTENT
Daily shooting
Selection session on computer and/or on reading print
Study and analysis of the photographs taken
Daily reflections and discussions to define the characteristics of a personal approach
Analysis of the different central stages of a photographic production
“Final editing” session in order to produce a homogeneous series
Finalization of a series on digital file, printed and then hung

OBJECTIVES
- Understand the different stages of producing a photographic series: taking shots
- Finalize a “coherent” set of digital photographs on a personal theme

SKILLS TARGET
- Be able to conduct a shooting session independently
- Succeed in selecting a coherent set of photographs on a personal theme

PRE-REQUISITES
None.

TARGET AUDIENCE
Anyone wishing to develop their photographic practice. Amateur, novice or experienced photographers. People working or studying in the field of image, communication, journalism, architecture, etc. Professional photographers wishing to explore a new field, a new technique.

RATES
see the price list according to the duration and type of support. Request a quote

BRING (IDEALLY)
- A selection of around 30 images demonstrating your practice (preferably on paper / format of your choice) / Highly recommended to get to know the trainer.
- Your camera with charger, batteries, etc. (Free loan possible on request)