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OBJECTIFS PEDAGOGIQUES
* Réaliser une série nouvelle.
* Apprendre à éditer une série photographique.
* Apprendre et améliorer la construction d’un récit photographique par la couverture d’un sujet défini avec Cristina de Middel.
* Développer un langage visuel propre, une identité photographique.
COMPETENCES VISEES
La formation en immersion avec Cristina de Middel vise à développer la compétence du participant à répondre à une commande photographique de type institutionnel. En situation d’immersion totale, il développera sa capacité à produire un travail photographique dans un lieu et avec un temps donnés.
A MESSAGE FROM CRISTINA DE MIDDEL ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
AN ALBUM FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
We are living in a time of constant uncertainty. Political, climatic, technological. Everything seems unstable, yet we keep producing images as if nothing is happening.
This workshop starts from that discomfort.
Over the course of almost a week, we will work with a simple and radical idea: to imagine that the world will end at the end of the workshop. Not as a dramatic or apocalyptic gesture, but as an exercise in clarity. If there were only time to say one thing, what would it be? What image would you make if it were the last one? What story deserves to exist before everything disappears?
The proposal is to use this urgency as a creative engine.
This is not about predicting the future, but about taking a position. About connecting with an absolute message, without filters or excuses, and from there understanding one’s own practice more clearly: what we do, why we do it, and for whom.
We will work intensively and collectively, building together a shared project: a final album. A kind of impossible archive that does not aim to explain the world, but to leave a trace of how we are looking at it just before it disappears.
There will be space for intuition, error and contradiction. To try, fail, edit, destroy and start again.
More than answers, this workshop creates a pressure: the need to decide what matters.
And to do it now.
PUBLIC VISE
Photographes professionnels, auteurs, journalistes, amateurs avertis.
BIOGRAPHIE
Cristina De Middel is a Spanish photographer whose work explores the ambiguous ground between documentary and conceptual practices. Trained in both journalism and fine arts, she gained international recognition with The Afronauts (2012), a self-published photobook that reimagined a failed Zambian space program with a blend of fact and fiction. Since then, her practice has consistently challenged the conventions of photographic storytelling, using staged imagery, archival materials, and subtle surrealism to reframe dominant narratives.
De Middel’s projects often engage with sociopolitical issues—ranging from migration and conflict to identity and myth—yet she avoids reductive portrayals, favoring complexity, irony, and metaphor. Her approach reflects a deep interest in questioning the reliability of photography and the responsibilities of visual authorship.
