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Train-the-trainer · Paris 20e

Lab Manager Programme

Five days to master the most demanding processes, run a laboratory and pass these skills on to your own students.

Duration
5 days · 35 h
Group size and format
Max. 4 participants
Fee
On request

Maximum 4 participants

A deliberately small group: every protocol is worked through with you until you run it alone.

Complete protocols

Recipes, timings and tolerances, written to be replayed in your own laboratory.

Six-month mentoring

Six months of support after the programme — long enough for your first series to come out at home.

Programme content

Three strands, held together

The outline is built with you after a scoping interview: it adapts to your laboratory and your students. These three strands do not move.

  1. Strand 01

    The processes

    Independently produce a monochrome then a colour carbon print, a bromoil or an Aquaprint.

  2. Strand 02

    The laboratory

    Run a laboratory: standardisation, safety, recipe traceability.

  3. Strand 03

    Teaching

    Build a teaching outline and the materials to pass these processes on to your own students.

Who it is for

A train-the-trainer programme, also open to the experienced practitioner working alone.

  • Art school teachers who want to open a historic-process darkroom in their institution.
  • Laboratory managers responsible for standardising recipes, safety and traceability.
  • Experienced practitioners moving on to colour carbon, bromoil or Aquaprint.

What you take away

The complete protocols of the processes covered — recipes, timings, tolerances — replayable at home.

Six months of mentoring after the programme, through your first independent series.

Lifetime access to Noeme.app, the house teaching platform.

Frequently asked questions

Solid photographic practice and prior experience of at least one alternative process — the one-day introduction is enough. A positioning test and a preliminary interview set the starting point.

On request: the programme is built with you. A named quote is issued within 5 working days of the scoping interview, valid for 30 days, detailing the cost per participant and the total cost.

The scoping interview and positioning take place at the latest 4 weeks before the start. We answer any enquiry within 5 working days. Allow a further 6 to 8 weeks where OPCO funding is involved.

Yes, on your premises subject to technical feasibility — that is one of the points of the scoping interview. Otherwise the programme runs at the studio, 1 passage Dagorno, Paris 20e, for a maximum of 4 participants.

Yes. Maison Picturale is a registered training provider: our on-site programmes are eligible for professional funding (OPCO, employer, France Travail). Contact us for a quote and help with the paperwork.

Practical information

The regulatory information for this course, gathered here before you enquire.

Learning outcomes
Independently produce a monochrome then a colour carbon print, a bromoil or an Aquaprint. Run a laboratory: standardisation, safety, recipe traceability. Build a teaching outline and the materials to pass these processes on to your own students.
Prerequisites
Solid photographic practice and prior experience of at least one alternative process — the one-day introduction is enough. Positioning test and preliminary interview.
Duration
5 days — 35 hours.
Fee
On request. The programme is built with you: a named quote is issued within 5 working days of a scoping interview, valid for 30 days, detailing the cost per participant and the total cost.
Access lead time
Scoping interview then positioning, at the latest 4 weeks before the start. Answer within 5 working days. Allow a further 6 to 8 weeks where OPCO funding is involved.
Group size and format
Maximum 4 participants. On site at the Paris 20 studio, or on your premises subject to technical feasibility.
Accessibility
Single-storey studio, step-free access and adapted toilet. Any request for adjustment is reviewed ahead of the course, with alternative arrangements where needed. Disability officer: T. Sidem — +33 6 44 18 87 24.

Maison Picturale is a training provider registered with the DRIEETS Île-de-France under number 11 75 74381 75. This registration does not constitute State accreditation.

Funding
& Certification

Registered training organisation (NDA). We assist you in putting together your employer-funded or other supported training application.

Registered organisation (NDA): 11 75 74381 75

Disability Referent: T. Sidem

Let's build your programme

A scoping interview, then a named quote within five working days.

New to these processes? Start with the one-day introduction.