This workshop is part of the “archaeology” workshops. Each workshop is introduced by the presentation of its different actors. Laurence Cornet, archaeologist and I presented images of our activities: Laurence showed a film in which she works on an excavation site, explaining the study of geological and archaeological stratigraphy… She explains how sedimentation processes produce a stratigraphy. The stratigraphy of a site is an essential element of the archaeological excavation to trace its history from the determination of the layering. For my part, i displayed and commented on images of my artistic work to better situate this new work in a creative logic.

Then, we gleaned and collected various geological and organic materials from and around the school’s wasteland. A work from these materials is undertaken in class: very carefully the students compose the stratigraphy. They then reinterpret them, graphically, on sheets of paper, by drawing and with pencils, like scientists. The plastic bags containing the materials found rest on rigid supports to be transported, without obstruction, to the shooting sites in the surrounding neighbourhoods.

On site, an initiation session to photography adapted to the project is held. Taking into account the work produced as a shooting tool, depth of field (how to make different planes coexist…). As actors in the system, the pupils also sometimes appear in the image. Back at the high school, a session dedicated to editing (selection of photographs) is proposed at the end of each day.

Photographs to be found in the inner courtyard of the high school.