Japanese / English
Expanding Documentary Practice: Urban Landscape, Time, and Speculative Image-Making
RESERVATION REQUIRED
- 2026.4.25
- 13:00–17:00
- 2026.4.26
- 10:00–17:00
©︎Christophe Marchand
This masterclass invites mid-career photographers and visual artists to engage with the working methods of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, whose practice is widely recognised for its exploration of abandoned and transitional urban spaces. Rooted in urban exploration (urbex), large-format photography, and long-term research, their work examines architecture and landscape as sites where history, ideology, and economic forces leave visible traces.
The program focuses on how scale, precision, and duration shape photographic meaning, and how architectural and landscape subjects can be approached beyond conventional documentary frameworks. In dialogue with their recent use of AI as a conceptual and research tool, the masterclass will also address how emerging technologies can be used to speculate on absent, altered, or unrealized spaces while maintaining photographic authorship.
Participants are expected to bring their ongoing projects and to engage critically with questions of methodology, ethics, and visual strategy. This masterclass is intended for visual artists seeking to expand documentary practice into more reflective, speculative, and technologically informed forms of image-making.
The program focuses on how scale, precision, and duration shape photographic meaning, and how architectural and landscape subjects can be approached beyond conventional documentary frameworks. In dialogue with their recent use of AI as a conceptual and research tool, the masterclass will also address how emerging technologies can be used to speculate on absent, altered, or unrealized spaces while maintaining photographic authorship.
Participants are expected to bring their ongoing projects and to engage critically with questions of methodology, ethics, and visual strategy. This masterclass is intended for visual artists seeking to expand documentary practice into more reflective, speculative, and technologically informed forms of image-making.
- Important Notice
- For enquiries & application please contact: [email protected]
Lecturer Lecturer
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Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre
©︎Jean-Charles Duban
Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre are a French duo that works primarily with large-format cameras, photographing modern ruins and decaying architecture. Both self-taught, they began collaborating in 2002 and gained recognition with their series The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl, 2010), a visual symbol of the American industrial crisis. Often working over long periods on urban and architectural ensembles in decline, they are influenced by the Bechers, Robert Polidori, Camilo José Vergara, and the broader culture of ruin and urban exploration.
Date 日時
2026.4.2513:00–17:00
2026.4.2610:00–17:00
Fees 料金
25,000 円