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Emmanuel BIGLER
12-Jul-2010, 01:51
2010 galerie-photo conference, Perpignan, France October 15 (Friday), 16(Saturday) and 17(Sunday), 2010.

http://www.galerie-photo.com and the companion forum http://www.galerie-photo.info
are French web sites and friendly communities dedicated to medium and large format photography since 2000. This conference is the 5th edition, after Nîmes (2004), Fontfroide Abbey (2006), Montreux-Switzerland (2007) and Bourges (2008).

Pre-registration now open
Location : Palais des Rois de Majorque, Perpignan, France.
Main topic : Self-published books in photography.

Admission to all sessions is free of charge.

Lectures will be given in French but most attendes do speak English or Spanish for friendly exchanges between the sessions and during the Sunday workshops.

Programme

Friday, October 15
17 h 00: Welcome and first meeting between the attendees.
18 h 00: Presentation of the conference
19 h 00: Apéritif
20 h 15: (optional) Dinner at Brasserie Le Vienne

Saturday, October 16
09 h 00 9 h 30: Welcome
09 h 30: François Besson: Artists' book in photography.
10 h 15: Henri Peyre: Series in photography
11 h 00: Thibault Gisclard: Current problems regarding image rights in the publishing world.
12 h 00 (optional) lunch
14 h 00: Henri Gaud: Current printing techniques, which to choose for which books ?
15 h 15 : Pierre Corratgé: From the image to the printed book, which roadmap for the self-publishing photographer ? An example: the self-published photo magazine "Revue Regards" http://www.revue-regards.com
15 h 45: Panel discussion; What kinds of books do photographers want to self-publish?
16 h 30: Informal meetings and exchanges
18 h 30: Two-color analogue slide projection (Emmanuel Bigler and Henri Gaud)
19 h 00: apéritif
20 h 15: (optional) Dinner at Brasserie Le Vienne

Sunday, October 17:
09 h 00 9 h 30: Welcome
09 h 30: Presentation of the workshops
10 h 00: Workshops and friendly informal exchanges
12 h 30: (optional) lunch
End of the Conference
14 h 30: (optional) visit of a digital printing company: Créalink.

Optional meals will be arranged on Friday (evening-dinner), Saturday
(noon-lunch), Saturday (evening-dinner) and Sunday (noon-lunch). Price
is euro 23 per meal, wine included.

Those who wish to take meals with the group should contact directly
the organisers by filling this form
http://www.galerie-photo.com/congres-de-galerie-photo-a-perpignan.pdf
and sending it by mail or e-mail
and find arrangements for pre-payment of the meals.
e-mail contact: blablart(at)yahoo(dot)fr

Last news to appear here on the forum galerie-photo.info (in French, sorry)
http://www.galerie-photo.info/forumgp/read.php?5,28336
Please feel free to contact Emmanuel Bigler through the forum messenging system for any question regarding this conference.

Hope to meet you in Perpignan in October !!

Notes regarding travel:

Perpignan is the "Chef-Lieu" of "Département des Pyrénées Orientales". The city is located on the Mediterranean coast, East Pyrenees, close the the French-Spanish border. It is quite far from the British Isles for sure, and even further away from Northern America.
Some airlines (including low-cost airlines) do operate flights to Perpignan and nearby Carcassone regional airports.

Perpignan is located 200 km by motorway from Barcelona, Spain, a major Spanish airport; 160 km from Montpellier or 200km from Toulouse, France, two major French regional airports.

Perpignan is directly connected to the French high-speed train network (TGV). Travel time by TGV from Paris to Perpignan is between 5h and 5h30.
By car, Perpignan can be reached from the Toulouse or Lyons areas by motorway.
Shortest travel time by car/motorway from Paris, depending on the route chosen, is about 850 km, 8 hours excluding stops.
Cost comparison between plane, train and car is far from obvious, take into account that French motorways are toll-motorways and that fuel costs in Europe, unfortunately, are not like the admission to the conference ;-)
The viammichelin (among others) route planning web site can help you a lot if you intend to come by car.
http://www.viamichelin.co.uk

Ash
12-Jul-2010, 02:12
I'm really tempted.

Last time I flew to Perpignan (summer 2007) there was a firefighters strike, I landed in Girona/Barcelona and had an extra couple hours by coach.

Emmanuel BIGLER
12-Jul-2010, 02:23
I'm really tempted.

Welcome !
We are expecting attendees from the UK-LF Group who already came to the Bourges conference in 2008.
Feel free to contact me for any further question.

Raymond Bleesz
12-Jul-2010, 06:31
Emmanuel,

Merci pour votra note re: Perpigan--I only wish I could attend, peut-etre autre photo fete.

Perpignan, le centre ville est joli et historique. Besancon aussi!

Hopla!!!

Raymond, in the Vail Valley, Co

Emmanuel BIGLER
12-Jul-2010, 09:13
Thanks, Raymond ! Even if you cannot come this time, we'll keep you informed for next time !
The conference will be hosted in the old Palais des Rois de Majorque ; last time in Bourges it was inside another historical building near the cathedral.. this is a privilege of old Europe ..
And I'm happy to the idea of meeting Spanish photographers in Perpignan for the first time.
And also : Salvador Dali used to say that the Perpignan central railway station was the Center of the World ;) so I need to see it as well ;)

Regarding historical buildings in the USA, there is a construction going on in Arkansas aimed at re-building a medieval castle with 100% medieval technology ! But the job will be finished in many, many years...
http://www.ozarkmedievalfortress.com/