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GOAL
* Learn how to create a new series;
* Learn how to edit a photographic series;
* Learn and improve how to build a photographic series be it linked to fiction, reality or both;
* Develop your own visual language and photographic identity;
This workshop in full immersion with Henry Roy aims at developing the aptitude of the participant to carry out a photography assignment in an institutional context. This experience will allow the participant to develop his/her capacity to produce a photographic work in a given location and throughout a given limited time period.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Henry Roy is a photographer and writer. He emigrated to France with his family when he was three years old for political reasons. He studied photography in Paris, after which he worked as a photojournalist and published, in 1996, a book of black-and-white studio portraits of Black personalities from different backgrounds, titled Regards Noirs (Dagorno & L’Harmattan).
Henry Roy uses intuition to trace his quest for identity in our world. His vision is the result of a blend of reminiscence, fantasy, and sensations captured throughout his daily life, in an animistic relationship with his environment. Henry Roy has continued this dreamy poetic journal for several decades as a sensorial and mental biography.
His work was displayed exhibitions in Paris, London, New-York, Maastricht, Arnhem, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Zürich, Perth, and he published numerous portraits, lifestyle series, and personal texts in international magazines such as Vogue Paris, Purple Journal, Purple Fashion, Air France Magazine, AD, W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar UK, Artreview, M Le Monde, L’Officiel Voyage, Apartamento, Hobo, and IntranQu’îllités, to name a few.
He published 7 individual photography books, edited many other publications, and curated art events and exhibitions. He also taught photography in Paris and Haiti. He lives and works mostly in Paris.
“REGARDS NOIRS” (Published by Dagorno & L’Harmattan editions. August 1998, Paris).
“OUT OF THE BLUE” (Published by The spring press, USA, 2008).
“SPIRIT” (Published by Gottlund Verlag in USA, 2009).
“MIRAGE” (Published by Jane & Jeremy Books, London, 2014).
“SUPERSTITION” (Published by Études Books, Paris, 2017)
“IBIZA MEMORIES” (Published by Nieves Books, 2022).
“IMPOSSIBLE ISLAND” (Published by Loose Joints & AGWA, 2025).
“First, listen attentively and let the work take shape by itself, uncontrolled. Efface
yourself to open the space for it to take off. Then become the active spectator of its journey. Keep pulling away from what is familiar, abandon yourself to the sensorial, let yourself become lost, derailed. Perhaps then, and only perhaps, if all converges properly, an image will emerge. It won’t count as an achievement, but as proof. Like the validation of the docility of chance.
But don’t delude yourself, the alchemy can only work if you remain, as much as possible, deaf and blind to all assumptions. Then you will be able to say, with no false modesty, that what you have created does not really belong to you.” Henry Roy
www.henryroy.com
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Program
Eyes in Progress proposes a frame of a one week training course during which 9 participants will be placed in a situation of total immersion, in order to produce a photographic series, from inception to end, under the direction of a distinguished photographer.
Participants will be placed in a situation of « artistic residence ». Working days shall be spitted in various sessions: shootings, editing, masterclasses and mutual exchanges on a daily basis.
Other activities will also be proposed, outside of the working sessions, in order to allow participants to appropriate their environment and to arouse their creativity and inspiration.
The workshop will take place at La Pandilla, a creative oasis on the island of Ibiza. Participants will also be accommodated at La Pandilla's casitas (each participant having his/her own bedroom), breakfasts and lunches will take place at La Pandilla as well as 3 dinners. 2 dinners will be taken outside of La Pandilla on the island.
You will be asked to adapt to a total immersion life, to take risks and to go beyond your limits, in order to progress and to get access to a higher level in your practice of photography.
No later than one month before the workshop, participants will be provided with a list of ideas to be able to brainstorm about their project. Participants are required to hire a car on site if they want to be able to drive around autonomously and shoot.
DETAILED AGENDA:
Day One (starting on Sunday, 4-5pm):
Introduction
Welcome of participants on training site.
Preliminary presentations, each participant briefly introduces oneself to the group, introduction of the invited photographer.
Presentation by Eyes in Progress of the workshop days organization and of the pre-established projects.
Description and presentation of the local environment.
Questions/answers.
First exchanges related to the selected subjects and/or still subjects to further thinking.
Day 2 (Monday):
9:30am – 12:30 pm
Each participant shows out one or two completed and published series. They will present themselves orally to the group.
1:30 – 3 pm
Inception and starting of a photographer’s project
By illustrating his presentation with his own projects, Henry Roy will explain how to make the best choice of the right angle of the subject – paying attention to one’s experience and to previous works. He will evoke environment related constraints and the way to take them into account to perform the work. He will provide the participants with key-factors and suggestions.
3 – 6 pm
The group goes out together in a previously chosen location 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. The staff can help in arranging contacts or in making suggestions.
Back indoor, exchanges about the reconnaissance carried on and identified constraints.
Day 3 to Day 5 –(Tuesday up to Thursday):
9:30 – 11 am
Every morning, Henry Roy will make a presentation of one of his projects or of some significant aspect or his professional cursus. The goal of these sessions is to inspire the participants in the realization of their own series.
11 am – 6 pm
Shooting sessions
Every participant goes outdoors to shoot their subjects. Participants come back to the house in order to get a critical review and improvement suggestions of Henry Roy. Daily meetings will be defined so that each participant can spend time with Henry Roy in order to develop his/her series.
Through a selection and a discussion with Henry Roy around the best pictures of the day, participants will work at developing their series and improving their global approach of the subject.
Day 6 (Friday)
9.30 am – 1 pm
Final editing and sequence.
Each participant works on the final editing and sequence of his/her series.
2-4 pm
Final series projections.
4-5 pm
End of the workshop. Departures.
Working language: French and/or English (depending on the audience).
