IA tools for photographers and visual artists with Alys Thomas

Mastering and integrating AI tools into your creative process.

The workshop will unfold into 3 distinct sessions: 3 days in September (from 15 until 17), 2 days in October (from 14 to 15), 2 days in December (from 9 to 10).

During this workshop, participants will either work on an existing project or create a full AI photographic project. The workshop’s price includes the licences for using the AI tools during the workshop but also in between sessions, that way participants can work on their project and come to the 2nd and 3rd session with their advancements.

 

GOALS

Mastering and integrating AI tools into your creative process.

Create a project exclusively with AI tools or add AI tools features to your existing project.

 

PROFICIENCY GOALS

During the workshop, you will learn how to:

– use the main AI tools for photographers

– integrate those tools in the retouching process

– generate photographs with IA

 

AUDIENCE

Professional photographers, visual artists.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Alys is a Franco-British photographer. She has long worked with analogue photography, but more recently she has been creating with AI. Across each, there’s a remarkable synergy of style, colour and light. In both, she brings her wry observation, with the idiosynchrasies of life a recurrent theme.

She meticulously crafts her AI-generated images, inputting her own photography into the process. She layers her own colour grades and retouch to create images that give a strong sense of her distinctive, human touch, making her creations uniquely her own. Her approach, and ours, is grounded in the belief that to produce the very best work, we have a workflow that totally engages our creative industry partners and can include real life casting, styling and location scouting to inform and shape the end result.

A recent client said… “Subtlety. Equilibrium. Humour. Like a surprising and balanced recipe, Alys’ work always gives me fascination, pleasure, amusement and curiosity. As if something was always about to happen, fall, change, leave or come. Playing gracefully with textures, colors and light, she captures the essence of life : severity and joy that makes it both absurd and beautiful, deep and funny, rough and tender, timeless and ephemeral. Her work has the poetry of Paris and the humour of British jokes, probably influenced by her mixed origins.”

 

 

Program

FIRST SESSION - SEPTEMBER 15-17, 2026 (3 days)

DAY 1:

IA in photography: issues and performance

General introduction of the exsiting concepts (analytical and generative IA)

The Ethics issues in the different uses

Technical presentation : possibilities and limits

Royalties payment

Presentation of the main IA tools

Workshop "Prompt generation" and collective debriefing

 

DAY 2

The creative process with IA: images generation from existing photographs or from nothing

Presentation of the 3 main tools for still and video images generation, strengths and weaknesses

Which AI tool for which project

Workshop "Photographic images generation" and collective debriefing

 

49 hours in Marseille - 2940 €
Early Bird 2840 €
before Jul. 09th
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- Only 6 spots available.

- The 2.940€ fee does not include transport, accommodation nor on the ground expenses. For participants coming from outside the European Union, please be aware that there is a bank fee when making the payments via bank transfer. In order to avoid them, you can use alternative systems such as WISE.

- In order to confirm your application, an advance payment of €100 is advised. Once the application is completed, we will send an email via PayZen to the participant in order to settle the payment. If the candidate is confirmed, this amount will be deducted from the overall cost of the workshop.

- In case the participation is not confirmed, he will get a full pay back of the 100€ fee.

- If accepted, the participant will receive a course contract confirming the success of his application by email.

- To confirm registration, the participant must return this contract to us, signed, within ten days, along with payment of 30% of the cost of the workshop. The participant will also receive an invoice.

- The rest of the fee must be paid by the first day of the workshop at the latest.

- A dossier in order to get prepared for the workshop will be sent to the participant at least two weeks before the workshop begins.

- If you're willing to participate in more than one workshop, we do offer a 10% discount on the following workshops' price.

- Confirmed candidates will be expected to arrive with their own laptops, and everything needed for digital editing, Photoshop included.

- Participants are required to find their own accommodation in Marseille.

- Workshop location: Hiptown Marseille, Les Goudes seminar room, 26 rue de la République, 13001 Marseille.

- Equipments : TV screen, cable, HDMI, paperboard.

- Eyes in Progress is committed to providing access to the required AI licenses during the workshop period so that participants can use the used softwares on their computers.

- Each participant will be given a certificate of completion of the course.

- The participants will be required to evaluate the workshop when it has been completed, to show their level of overall satisfaction and the extent of their acquisition of new skills. These evaluations will help us to improve our workshops.

Applications will be open until August 20, 2026.

- Eyes in Progress reserves the right to cancel groups with less than 6 participants. In the event of a cancellation, students will be given at least 3 weeks advance notice. Eyes in Progress reserves the right to change or alter the program advertised.

- If a participant decides to cancel for whatever reason, this must be confirmed in writing:

. Eyes in Progress will reimburse all the registration costs except for the €100 administrative fee, if the participant informs Eyes in Progress of cancellation at least 3 weeks before the first day of the workshop. Beyond this time limit, Eyes in Progress will charge the following:

. 50% of the cost if cancelled between 6 and 20 days before the workshop commences.

. 100% of the cost if cancelled less than 5 days before the workshop commences.

. All workshops that are commenced but not completed through the fault of the participant need to be paid in full.

- Eyes in Progress is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance.

Eyes in Progress is committed to using all possible means to enable beneficiaries with disabilities to participate in the workshops. For this, the director of Eyes in Progress will assess all required adaptations and implement them.