Drawing on her multiple experiences as a photographer but also as a curator, Marie Sordat will accompany each and everyone with expertise and kindness in the construction of a personal photographic ensemble.

It will be largely a question of sensitivity, of the relationship to what surrounds us but also of the relationship we have with photography. A step that will allow us to specify our desires, our stakes, and our personal objectives that will guide us throughout the day.

The approaches can be very diverse, turned towards the outside, the street, the others, the city, the spaces around, but also largely directed towards one’s own history, one’s own obsessions.

After having defined a certain amount of expectations and photographic intentions, the process will go through sessions of shooting to experiment, find one's distance, validate aesthetic choices and sometimes leave one's "comfort zone".

These moments will be systematically followed by editing and exchange sessions to cross the glances, to confront the perceptions and to select the photographs which will be used as references for the following shots.

This alternation of sessions will allow to refine little by little a coherent set of photographs which will be printed and showed the last day.

This last step will also allow us to address certain questions related to the way to present our work in the form of a hanging. It will then be a question of rhythm, correspondence, breathing, title, format... The series will be approached in a new perspective giving rise to certain adjustments.

Those wishing to do so will be able to work only on photographs taken before the workshop. The work will then focus on editing and various perspectives of diffusion.

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

MARIE SORDAT
Photographer, curator and photography teacher, Marie Sordat lives and works in Brussels. Her work has been shown at many festivals, galleries and museums around the world, from Japan to Mexico, and is also regularly published in catalogs, books or magazines. Her first monograph Empire was published in Yellow Now editions in 2015, Nada is her second, published in 2021 by Le Mulet editions. Her photographs are part of the Belgian and French national collections: in 2012, her series Motherland joined the BNF and was selected by the jury of the Virginia Prize.

As a curator, she has collaborated with the ISELP, the Espace Contretype or the Musée du Botanique for which she directed the exhibition EYES WILD OPEN as well as the catalog published by Editions André Frère. She also teaches film and digital photography at INSAS, and is a member of numerous school juries.

Website : Marie Sordat
Fisheye : Ce rien qui fait tout
Eyes Wild Open, interview video
Podcast Vice Versa : Entre violence et douceur avec Marie Sordat 


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