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Call for Applications En___quête photographique Revealing, Editing, and Designing the Field

23-25 April 2025

Centre de la Vieille Charité / Marseille

Fabrique des Écritures Ethnographiques (MMSH)

https://fabecritures.fr/aac-workshop-photographique-2025/

The Fabrique des Écritures Ethnographiques, in partnership with CRESSON Lab, is launching a call for applications to participate in a tuition free photography workshop for researchers, PhD candidates, and Master’s students with a strong photographic practice and a project aimed at publication or exhibition. This workshop, at the intersection of editorial, scenographic, and research practices, aims to enrich and intensify material and theoretical reflections on photography. This call is open to all projects that integrate photography into an investigation, with particular attention to interdisciplinary and experimental projects blending social sciences research, photography, cartography, archives, literature, sound, drawing, embroidery, and/or any other artistic practice.

Led by Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo and Camilo Leon-Quijano, this workshop aims to assist participants in developing their visual narratives.

Objectives and Program

1. Do we need "good images"? Iconic, plastic, and narrative challenges in production and post-production. Ethnographic practices and photographic investigations.
2. Designing a visual narrative Building a coherent visual narrative from the materials provided. Selection, arrangement, and creation of a narrative dynamic tailored to each project.
3. Exploring editorial formats Exploring different editorial and scenographic formats (photo book, fanzine, or exhibition). Collaborative work on the connections between text, image, sequence, scenography, and layout.
4. Finalizing and disseminating a photographic project Online masterclass on design led by Ricardo Baez. Sequencing and finalization of projects. Preparation of a photo book dummy, a fanzine, or an exhibition.

Participation Requirements

Target Audience: 9 spots available. Researchers, PhD candidates, and last-year Master’s students engaged in photographic investigation. International and interdisciplinary applications are welcome, with particular emphasis on social sciences.

Preparation: Participants must bring a body of materials (photographs, texts, archives, or research objects) from ongoing or completed work to create a project dummy.

Application Submission:

• A project presentation (1 page max) outlining research objectives, photographic practice, and editorial perspectives.
• An up-to-date CV.
• A portfolio of images related to the project (10 to 30 max).
• Note: Accommodation, transportation, and meal expenses are not covered.

Application Deadline: January 20, 2025 Notification of Results: January 24, 2025

Practical Information

The workshop will take place in English and French. Participants must bring their prints (ideally in various formats) as well as any materials necessary for creating the photo book or exhibition dummy (maps, archives, graphic tools, etc.). No printing services will be available on site.

Participants agree to share an excerpt of their work produced during the workshop (at least one visual and a description) on the Fabrique des Écritures Ethnographiques communication platforms.

Link to application form : https://forms.gle/oFgEqKXSoG8YE2zX7

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Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo

Sergio Valenzuela-Escobedo is a researcher working as a curator. He holds a PhD in photography from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP Arles), with research focusing on the genesis of cameras as technical objects in South America. He will be the curator of the Ci.CLO Biennial of Photography in Porto in 2025 and has curated numerous exhibitions, including “Mapuche” at the Musée de l'Homme, “Monsanto: Une enquête photographique,” and “Forêts géométriques” at the Rencontres d'Arles, as well as the trilogy “Mama Coca,” “Ipáamamu - Histoires de Wawaim,” and “Oro Verde” at the Fotofestiwal de Łódź in 2023. He conceives of exhibitions and books as platforms for critical discourse. As a mentor, he takes part in the Joop Swart 2024 World Press Photo Masterclass and NLP training at the Market Photo Workshop in South Africa. He was also a member of the jury for the Prix du Livre d'Arles in 2023. Finally, he is the artistic director and co-founder of DoubleDummy, a platform dedicated to critical reflection on documentary photography.

Learn more: https://doubledummystudio.com/

www.instagram.com/valenzuela_escobedo

Camilo León-Quijano

Camilo León-Quijano is an anthropologist and photographer with a PhD from the EHESS. He is a permanent research fellow at the CNRS in the CRESSON-AAU lab. His research focuses on sensory experiences in urban environments and includes photo-ethnographic studies conducted in France, Colombia, and Portugal on topics such as urban representation, thermoception, tourism, and multimodality. He develops exhibitions, photographic films, and multimodal projects that have received multiple awards and have been exhibited and published in various media, including Le Monde, Libération, The Washington Post, Fisheye Magazine, and The British Journal of Photography.

His latest project, La cité: une anthropologie photographique, led to the creation of a multimodal book (Ed. EHESS) and an interactive traveling exhibition (www.lacite.org), which received the John Collier Prize from the Society for Visual Anthropology (American Anthropological Association) and the Current Anthropology journal. Learn more: www.camilo-leon.com

www.instagram.com/camilo_lq/

Ricardo Báez

Ricardo Báez is a graphic designer, editor, and art director dedicated to editorial, exhibition, and photobook design. He has been a member of the International Graphic Alliance (AGI, Switzerland) since 2022 and has taught design classes at Lens – School of Visual Arts (Madrid) and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (United States), among other institutions, as a guest professor. His recent awards include the Certificate of Excellence from the ISTD International Typographic Awards 2024 (England), First Prize at the Fiebre Photobook Dummy Award (Spain, 2023), First Prize at the Paris Photo - Aperture Foundation Award (France, 2017), and an Honorable Mention in “Best Book Design from All Over The World” (Germany, 2018). Learn more: https://ricardobaez.info/

www.instagram.com/ricardoantoniobaez

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Camilo León-Quijano Anthropologist and Photographer CNRS Researcher / Chargé de recherche au CNRS French National Center for Scientific Research AAU/CRESSON

• École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble 60 Avenue de Constantine, 38036 Grenoble Cedex 2

www.camilo-leon.com

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