Education Archives - ericvaldenaire

14/07/2025 - Intra-company training

Unlike INTER-company training, INTRA-company training (in-house training) is tailor-made based on the company’s characteristics, the trainees’ profiles, and the specific needs of the business. It generally takes place within the company, using the company’s own equipment if available.

While complying with certain administrative and educational requirements specific to the Qualiopi French certification framework, funding can be provided by the company’s OPCO (Competence Operator), a Skills Operator such as Afdas (French Agency for the Protection of Photography and Artists).

A trainee practices photography during an intra-company training session in Paris in July 2025

27/11/2023 - Gobelins School

Last week, I gave my first class at GOBELINS Paris, the school of visual creation, in the Photography & Video department.
I am very honored and proud to join the teaching team of such an institution.
Thank you to Christophe Rambert and Marie-Violaine de Vivie of Studio Nuances for their trust, as well as to Yann Cainjo for putting us all together.

Photographer and photography teacher Eric Valdenaire poses in front of the Gobelins School in Paris on November 22, 2023

21/04/2020 - Distance e-teaching

In this unprecedented period of containment linked to the COVID-19 virus, I am proud to practice distance e-teaching of photography as part of an elective module to 4th year students at IIM – Institut de l’internet et du multimédia.

In 4 days, the program was dense to cover all the concepts defined, both theoretical and practical, technical and artistic: choice and maintenance of equipment, camera settings, shooting techniques, digital production flow, … in the various situations of reportage, portrait, still life, packshot, narration, … all in natural and artificial light.

Enseignement à distance de la photographie à des étudiants de l'IIM, l'Institut de l'Internet et du Multimédia, par le photographe Eric Valdenaire à Paris en avril 2020, durant la phase de confinement liée au virus COVID-19.

Distance e-teaching of photography to students of IIM, the Institute of Internet and Multimedia, by photographer Eric Valdenaire in Paris in April 2020, during the containment phase linked to the COVID-19 virus.

14/11/2018 - Conference at Salon de la photographie

It was a real great pleasure to answer to the invitation of the UPP for the holding of a conference on the theme “The Essentials of Studio Photography” within the Forum des Pros at the last Salon de la photographie held in Paris Porte de Versailles from 7 to 11 November 2018. A nice moment of sharing.

A video recording of this conference will soon be available in replay on the UPP website.

Conference “The Essentials of Studio Photography” at Paris Photography Fair on November 9, 2018 | Photo © UPP

16/10/2018 - IIM Photography Workshop

As usual, it was a real pleasure to welcome a group of students of IIM – Institute of Internet and Multimedia for a Photography workshop, or how to learn the basics of photography in one week.

At a time when more than half of these students are brought, as part of their learning process, to publish content on social networks, some fundamental notions of photography were greatly appreciated. Intensive program created to measure, combining theory and practice, to respond to many situations (reportage, portrait, still life, packshot, story telling, …) using the technique (camera settings, shooting techniques, editing, metadata, digital workflow, online publishing, …).

For more information, an article – written in French – can be read on the IIM blog.

Discovery of the world of a photographic studio by IIM students in Paris on October 10th, 2018.

09/09/2015 - Speos intake

After my first day of school as a student few years ago …
After my first day of school as a parent not so long ago …
It is with some emotion that I just attended my first day of school as a teacher !
Thank you SPEOS !

SPEOS intake 2015-2016