Pause Photo Prose

Pause Photo Prose

11 - 15 yo, 15 - 18 yo, 4 - 8 yo, 6 - 11 yo, Elderly, Students, Workshop

This game was created in result of an experimentation with photographers and educators specialized in animation and formation. This card-game aims to raise awareness about the origin of photographies, their multiple meanings and uses. Putting words on pictures helps to break free from the like/unlike reflex, in order to sharpen its image reading, to be independent, to be a citizen and not a consumer, to have your own opinion and share it with others. 

There are 32 cards in this game, they are as diverse as the hundreds of  images we see everyday. Each photo was made by an author-photographer, who explains its artistic approach, each of this photos were then used for publicity, CDs, magazines, websites etc. This game is effective after three rounds, the players know how to read an image, which is an essential skill nowadays. 

Goals

Games are a great way to stimulate curiosity, attention, collective thinking, and to bind a group together around common interest and reveal personalities. This game requires several qualities: quick observation, complicity, logic, knowledges, imagination, listening, and teamwork.

Logistics

 

Length

1h to 3h 

Public

from 4 to 99 yo

Number

from 4 to 30

Where

a room

Material

Cameras, a studio, a video projector

Programme

  • History of photography
  • Photography techniques 
  • Image analysis
  • Discover the artistic approach

Exhibition in Pontacq – Workshop “Out of Time”

Exhibition in Pontacq – Workshop “Out of Time”

Elderly, Exhibition, Exhibition workshop

“Out of Time”

Workshop and exhibition at the Saint-Frai retirement house in Pontacq

During the vernissage, in the corridors of Pontacq retirement house ©Ph. Glorieux/À Propos

Medicine and social security enabled to elongate/prolongate the human lifespan to the point where/ when societies are looking for solutions so that old people live a pleasant end of life.   

Nowadays, all seniors don’t have the luck to have a family to look after them, especially when they suffer from cognitive disorders, or serious disabilities (Alzeimer). They need an extra care, so they are sent to retirement homes (EPHAD). The end of life questions us about how to accompany elderly persons and what are their place in modern/ our societies. 

Portrait Shadows Rebenacq
Portrait Shadows Rebenacq
Portrait Shadows Rebenacq
Portrait Shadows Rebenacq

 © Ph. Glorieux/À Propos

Philippe Glorieux, an author-photographer from the collective A propos, redefines the art of portrait, and breaks with the illusions of resemblance, following Paul Klee saying/statement « art does not reproduce the visible, it makes visible ». Especially here, where the visible is disturbing to see. 

For the photographer the priority is the way and not the end, so he put in place creative projects in order to bring happiness to the elderly or simply to spark their interest in living, to make them feel alive again. Seniors are mirrors to our own finitude. 

Visiting: During the portrait sessions, the photographer made the EHPAD residents pose while the pictures were being projected on a big screen. He chose the motion-blur effect to show them in their social space, while still making them stand out from the blurry background. Their relatives, the staff, the co-residents, anybody in the background, thanks to a slow motion effect appear to be « ghosts ». They are surrounded by people but yet they feel more and more alone. 

The portrait session was on a volunteer basis. In order to catch the attention of the residents, the photographer put a great importance to explaining his approach, the art of portrait, the timelessness of a picture , as well as its patrimonial value. 

Role-play: The photographer used Pause Photo Prose play-cards, to recreate famous paintings but with photography. With its 32 cards, this game helped stimulate curiosity, emulation, attention and collective thinking. This game requires several qualities: quick observation, complicity, logic, knowledges, imagination, listening, and teamwork.

Create: the portraits are made with a remote control, the models can see the picture on a big screen. In the framework of the « Scène en tableaux » / picture a scene/ On stage/ workshop, the residents had to organise the setting and look for costumes and accessories in order to create a great role-play portrait. 

After a cultural mediation workshop about six paintings, the residents chose a couple of paintings to recreate. Here, it is Francois Boucher, 1739, Family Taking Breakfast.

Medias

© Ph. Glorieux/À Propos