Stage vacances enfants 6-11 ans — I comme Image avec Cynthia Mancuso

Inspired by Ways of Seeing by John Berger, which reminds us that we see before we can put words on what we see, the workshop invites children to observe, question and share what the images make them feel and imagine. Because looking is already a way to discover and understand the world, even before finding the words to talk about it.

They will explore the links between images and words. How do images and words respond? Can a word be seen in an image? Can a photo tell a story? What if images were an opportunity to share our looks, our words and our imaginations?

In the manner of an alphabetist, they will be asked to develop their gaze and creativity by seeking correspondences between a letter and an object, a shape or a color, present in the city.

Through the reading of images, children will learn to decipher a photograph by choosing words that make sense, where everyone can share their own interpretation.

Finally, from a selection of their photographs, they will experience the power of evocation of images, including how the association of images opens the doors of narrative, imagination, and one’s own personal expression.

We see before we find the words to say what we see. But everyone looks in their own way, according to their history, their experiences and what they already know. The same image can give rise to different ideas, emotions or stories.

The workshop offers a playful and sensitive approach to photographic practice where curiosity, observation, imagination and subjectivity of the gaze are at the heart of the experience.

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Cynthia Mancuso

The artist photographer is particularly interested in our capacities to perceive, listen and open up to the world, and in the relational aspect of photographic practice: how it inscribes us in the world and creates a link between the other and the self. She leads numerous artistic practice workshops for young people in cultural, school and extracurricular settings.

She is also the author of a novel, The Misconceived (2003) which mirrors love passion and artistic passion, and conducts art therapy workshops in hospital service with children, adolescents and young adults: the photographic practice becomes medium in order to facilitate their expressiveness and the putting into words of their difficulties, while promoting confidence and self-esteem.

Currently, Cynthia Mancuso is writing and preparing an exhibition of personal photographs. Stimulating creativity and proposing meaning, through the production of words and images, is at the heart of his artistic approach.