The Institute's Study Days
Since its founding, research and creative work have been a central focus of the Institut pour la photographie’s program. To promote this focus, the Institut regularly organizes study days, symposia, and conferences both at the Institut and at partner venues.
Below is a timeline of the various events organized as part of this initiative.
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2025
Study Day - Street vendors, fairground vendors, casual workers
↘︎ october 18, 2025 - National Archives of the World of Work, Roubaix
As part of the Institute's off-site programming.
2025
Study Day - AI and Visual Creation(s)
↘︎ april 29, 2025 - La Plaine Images, Tourcoing
2024
Learning Through Photography—19th and 20th Centuries
↘︎ april 11 and 12, 2024 - Tourcoing and Brussels
As part of the Francophone Days of Research in the History of Photography.
2023
Study Day - Interferential Photography
↘︎ march 31 and April 1, 2023 - University of Lille
2023
Study Day - Pierre Dubreuil: Different Perspectives
↘︎ february 10, 2023 - Auditorium at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
2022
Photography in the Age of Rights Holders
↘︎ september 30, 2022 - INHA, Paris
A study day organized by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in partnership with the Hauts-de-France Institut pour la photographie.
2022
Study Day - You're here... Or are you?
↘︎ july 7, 2022 - École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP), Arles
As part of the 2021 edition of the Institute's Scholarship Program and the ENSP's 40th anniversary.
2022
Images of Resistance—Photographs and Visual Strategies of Resistance, Battles, and Struggles, Both Individual and Collective
↘︎ may 19 and 20, 2022 - Lille and Brussels
As part of the second edition of the Francophone Conference on Research in the History of Photography and the fourth edition of the Institut pour la photographie’s Fellowship.
may 19 - European House of the Human and Social Sciences (MESHS), Lille
may 20 — Free University of Brussels, Brussels
2021
Africa Photo Days 2020
↘︎ october 22 and 23, 2021 - The Institut pour la photographie, Lille
A series of events featuring collectives from across the African continent, presented by Africa in visu.
2021
Media iconographer and archivist since the 1960s
↘︎ june 10, 2021 - The Institut pour la photographie, Lille
Edited by Audrey Leblanc.
2021
Toward a Transnational History of the Postcard
↘︎ may 10 and 11, 2021 - The Institut pour la photographie, Lille
As part of "The Circulation of Postcards in Visual and Literary Culture (20th–21st Centuries)."
2020
Photography: A "Story for Everyone"
↘︎ october 14, 15, and 16, 2020 - Tourcoing, Lille, and Amiens
As part of the first edition of the Francophone Days of Research in the History of Photography.
2:10 p. m. - Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing
10:10 a. m. - European House of Humanities and Social Sciences (MESHS), Lille
10:10 a. m. - The King's Residence and the House of Sagittarius, Amiens
2019
A Mass-Scale Challenge: From the Dissemination of Photography to the Management of Archives
↘︎ july 2 and 3, 2019 - Arles Municipal Theater, Arles
As part of the 2018 Institute Fellowship program—Photography: A Medium for Dissemination—and the 2019 Rencontres d'Arles.
2018
The Challenges of Managing Photographic Collections
↘︎ october 17, 18, and 19, 2018 - Roubaix, Tourcoing, and Lille
As part of the launch of the Lille Institut pour la photographie.
10:10 a. m. - National Archives of the World of Work, Roubaix
Heritage Preservation and Promotion
6:10 p. m. - Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing
“Images as a Resource” or the Various Approaches and Methodologies Related to Photographic Archival Collections
10:10 p. m. - Nouveau Siècle, Lille
Photography Wins Over Audiences: From Dissemination to Awareness