CONCEPTION ET CONDUITE D’UN PROJET D’EDUCATION ARTISTIQUE ET CULTUREL

Under the surface with Gabrielle Duplantier

Find the poetry in the landscape and summon old memories

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GOAL

* Learn and improve how to build a photographic series be it linked to fiction, reality or both.

* Build a plastic approach and an artistic coherence in the approach of a subject.

* Develop your own visual language and photographic identity.

* Learn how to create a news series but also continue and improve an existing body of work.

BIOGRAPHY

Gabrielle Duplantier is a French photographer born in 1978.

After studying Fine Arts and Art History, she started working on her own as a photographer. Her work is inspired by close territories, nature and portraits. From often uneven shots to experiments in the darkroom, she brings back images where the power of forms, a memory of a painter’s apprenticeship, is combined with the fragility of figures.

Suspended movements, organic landscapes, twilight moments, inhabited portraits of women or children, Gabrielle continues to assert, anxiously and obstinately, her point of view as a subject, less attached to freezing reality than to claiming a right to see it.

She has published three books with Lamaindonne publishing house: Volta (2014), Terres Basses (2018) and Wild Rose (2024).

Gabrielle and her photographs. All of them are inspired by a delicacy and by a brutal force, a fieriness and a grace, something that the night competes with both the demonic and the candour. Gabrielle owes something to the mist and the glow, to the oak and the reed, to the landscape and the phantasmagoria. To the granite of desires and the sand of life. In her book Volta, with a preface by Maylis de Kerangal, her great art is assembled like a path of rain, of ferns, of women from another time, of countries and more countries, of things seen unless they are the sole fruit of the powder of a moment.

Program

This will be a hands on workshop with shooting sessions, individual assignments, daily group discussion and editing sessions.

You’ll be expected to fully immerse yourself, take risks and push your boundaries in order to move forward into another level in your photography.

Day 1:
Masterclass – Projections
Gabrielle Duplantier will spend time talking about her own work and the different projects she has worked on. She will share her photographic references with the group and talk about the different steps of her photographic path. She will show us her books.

Portfolios reviews and projects definition
Each participant will receive and in-depth critique of their work which will also be used as a jumping board for workshop projects. Participants are highly encouraged to come to the workshop with defined ideas on the subject they want to photograph during the workshop. However, a session will be devoted to refining each participant’s story and a list of suggestions of projects will be provided by Eyes in Progress.

Shooting session
The group goes out together in Lisbon to initiate the shooting sessions. Every participant will be free to achieve an individual reconnaissance outdoor in order to identify some points and/or meet with potential subjects (appointments could have been arranged previously). As far as possible, they will start making some shots. We can help in arranging contacts or in making suggestions.

Day 2:
Shooting sessions
The group goes out together outside Lisbon to initiate the shooting sessions outdoors. Every participant will be free to achieve an individual reconnaissance in order to identify some points and/or meet with potential subjects (appointments may have been arranged previously).

Back to the studio
Through the selection and discussion of the best images of the day, the participants will work towards developing their own photographic style and hopefully, see their overall approach improve.

Editing sessions
Shooting session is not mandatory, if a photographer prefers to work on an existing series he has already started to work on, he will be able to. In that case, the participant will have to bring a certain number of photographs so he can work with Gabrielle Duplantier on the approach, the editing and the sequence.

Day 3:
Shooting sessions
Each participant goes shoot his/her own project. Help with directions, contacts and translation in Lisbon will be provided by the workshop team if needed. Participants are encouraged to come back as often as they can to the studio so they can show their photographs and get the feedback and improvement suggestions to Gabrielle Duplantier.

Day 4:
Final portfolio editing
Each participant will work on a large edit of his images, then they are printed and laid down on a table (10×15 format). The final editing and sequencing is made during a one-to-one session with Gabrielle Duplantier, participants are encouraged to attend the sessions of each other. Once the final edit is done, the participants may work on the post-process and captions. They are then to write a personal statement on the work and on themselves, which will be send to the photography expert of their choice.

It will also be possible for those willing to finalize their series with a book sketch-up they will make under the supervision of Gabrielle Duplantier.

Preparation of a small show with prints, notebooks or leporellos. Presentation of the works to XYZ Books team and guests.

Teaching language: English.

Workshop hours: 9h30-17h30.

Apr 16 - Apr 19, 2025
4 days in Lisbon - 1350 €

Early Bird 1250 €
before Jan. 16th

APPLY

Conditions

- Only 9 students will be admitted for each session. Students will be granted admission to the workshop based on a review of a selection of 10 of their photographs.

- The 1.350€ 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 Transferwise.

- 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 accepted, 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.

Pre-requisite

- Successful candidates will be expected to arrive comfortable with their equipment and ready to photograph.

- Participants working digitally should bring their own laptops, and everything needed for digital editing.

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

Education material

- Photo books

- Projector and screen

- 1 MAC computer

- Professional A3 printer

- Photo paper

A technical assistant will be present during the workshop.

After the workshop

- The portfolios produced by each participant will be published on the site of Eyes in Progress.

- Mentors are photography experts such as a photo editors, journalists, creative directors, gallery curators, they will review these portfolios.

- Video interviews in which the students discuss their work, their motivation as photographers, as well as what they learned during the workshop will also be posted on the site. In case the participant is not willing to have his video online, we won't publish it, however, we do encourage to record the video anyways as a practical exercise on how to orally express himself as a photographer.

- 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.

- If the participant is not willing to have his profile online (portfolio, review, video), we will of course respect his decision and will not publish it.

Deadlines

Applications will be open until March 15th 2025.

- Eyes in Progress reserves the right to cancel groups with less than 7 participants. Students will be given either a full refund or offered a place with an alternative photographer. 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.

SPECIAL NEED ACCESS

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.