Courses are taught in 3 languages, english, spanish and french.
What is taught?
Practice of Digital and Argentic Photography:
Fashion photography, portrait, still life, architecture, interior design, reporting …
Choose your equipment according to the application.
Lighting techniques in the studio and outdoors.
Development and raw editing techniques on LightRoom and Photoshop.
Calibrate your equipment (camera, monitor, printer …).
We dedicate ourselves also to the study and diffusion of photographic processes and technologies of the nineteenth century as tools of expression in XXI century.
We are convinced that the past can be a rich and inexhaustible knowledge and resources source and thereby enriching the current photographic production.Organization of demonstrations and practical workshops on Wet Collodion and Daguerreotype Processes in order to expand and enrich the range of creative tools.
What is our experience and what is our expertise?
14 years exploring and disseminating historical and pioneering photographic techniques: the daguerreotype, wet collodion, albumen, cyanotype… and digital hybrids.
Some of the artists, restaurateurs, schools and institutions we have trained:
Miquel Salom (daguerreotype)
Massimo Cova (daguerreotype)
Gabriel Barceló (daguerreotype)
Michal Sitkiewicz (daguerreotype)
Juan Pedro Revuelta (daguerreotype and wet plate collodion hybrid)
Clara Prieto (daguerreotype, wet plate collodion, albumen hybrid)
Esther Llorca (daguerreotype)
Angela Gallego (daguerreotype)
Joaquin Paredes (daguerreotype)
ESCRBC (daguerreotype, wet plate collodion, albumen hybrid)
IPCE (daguerreotype and wet plate collodion)
Sociedad fotográfica Alavesa (daguerreotype)
Universidad de Sevilla (daguerreotype)
Taller Panóptico (daguerreotype)
MNACTEC (daguerreotype)
Centro de Formación del Profesorado y Recursos de Avilés (daguerreotype)
Mistos (colodíon húmedo)
IVASFOT (daguerreotype and wet plate collodion)
Spéos (daguerreotype)
We can only thank those who helped us in our practice:
Niepce, Daguerre, Alexandre Edmond Becquerel, E. De Valicourt, Baron Gros J.B Louis, Hippolyte Fizeau, Marc Antoine Gaudin, Lerebours, Laborde, Gustave Le Gray, y en los contemporáneos, Marc Kereun, Mike Robinson, Alan Bekhuis, Irving Poboravsky, Bailun, Takashi Arai, Sean Culver, John Hurlock, Jerry Spagnoli, Rob Mac Elroy… and our pioneer and adventurer of the daguerreotype, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey.
20 years teaching photography, studio and laboratory, at SPEOS with whom we have collaborated for the Master of Professional Photography.
Other collaborations with the School of Gobelins to train for example the future photographers of the army of Abu Dhabi!
During all these years, we met a variety of profiles and alreal have a diverse learning rhythm.
What we offer today is a “à la carte” training, in group or individual, in order to cover exactly the need of the participant.
Our recent collaborations with schools and institutions, in Spain and abroad.
Our collaborations with artists, students, photography and restoration schools, universities, cultural institutions, exhibitions. Daguerreotype, wet collodion, silver print photography, large format camera… read more.
FOR WHAT PUBLIC?
All public. We can be a support for a photographer…
Form in 1 month at 40 hours/week a product photographer (from shoot to post-production).
To train photographers to historical processes: Wet collodion and Daguerreotype
The trainers
Hélène Védrenne, photographer and trainer in historical photographic processes (Taller daguerrotipo collective).
Nina Zaragoza, photographer and trainer in historical photographic processes (Taller daguerrotipo collective).
We are the active and founders members of the collectives Simone Choulle and Taller daguerrotipo.