:: Spéos in a few dates ...
2011: 26 ans, 26 promos, 1 expo :
The Prints,
The Projection
- The photography school Speos and the museum Maison Nicéphore Niépce in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes are happy to announce the online publication of Niépce - Letters and Documents, by Manuel Bonnet et Jean-Louis Marignier, the largest number of documents ever collected on the inventor of photography (1765-1833)
2010: Spéos celebrates its 25th anniversary!
- Lens Culture FotoFest comes to France for the first time during Paris Photo from November 15-17. It will be hosted by Speos Paris Photographic Institute.
- The Speos students participated at the 47th Bièvres International Photofair.
- "The digital revolution" : Exhibition Opening at the Swiss Camera Museum at Vevey on April 23.
Speos and the Niépce House contributed with a donation of cameras and other equipment.
- Voies Off Festival - Arles : Spéos/Maison Nicéphore Niépce will be present for the 15th consecutive year in this festival. Since 1996, the Voies Off Festival has been supporting contemporary creation and varied creative practices by offering their authors a scene of international renown during the Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles. In parallel to the official programming, the Voies Off Festival displays for free the photographic work of young authors.
2009: Partnership with the Institut Image of ENSAM in Chalon sur Saône where were presented:
> a 3D video displaying the internal mechanism of the Pyreolophore - a creation by Hadrien Duhamel
> the birth of the first camera: where, how and when the "baguier d'Isidore" (a little jewel case) was transformed into a camera thanks to the dismantling of the family's solar microscope;
> the entire Petiot-Groffier lab in the House of Nicéphore Niépce on the occasion of the National Heritage Days.
- Conference-Debate-Exhibitions in Dubai at the Alliance Française
- Slideshow of Spéos students’ work at the Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai
- Partnership between Spéos/Maison Niépce and the Swiss Camera Museum at Vevey:
> creation of a showcase dedicated to the work realized in the House of Nicéphore Niépce
> donation by Spéos/Maison Nicéphore Niépce of an important collection concerning the beginnings of digital photography.
2008: The Academician Lucien Clergue invites Jean-Louis Marignier, researcher at the CNRS, at the Academy of Fine Arts to report on ten years of research and restoration at the Maison Niépce.
See « Nicéphore Niépce reçoit les honneurs de l’Institut de France » article.
- Spéos and Maison Nicéphore Niépce have decided to celebrate the bicentennial of the Pyreolophore by rebuilding it as it was originally. It is the first internal combustion engine ever, which was invented and patented by the Niépce brothers in 1807. 10 years later, they were the first in the world to make an engine work with fuel injection system. A celebration took place on the occasion of the “Journées du Patrimoine” (National Heritage Days) 2008, in the very place of the invention… in the House of Nicéphore Niépce, as well as in November on the occasion of the Science Festival in the Institut Image of ENSAM in Chalon sur Saône.
2007: Students at Spéos have the possibility to obtain the degree of a European Master of Professional Photography accredited by E.A.B.H.E.S.(European Accreditation Board of Higher Education Schools).
2006: Spéos' subsidiary, PixOclock.com, the image bank for independent professional photographers and former students at Spéos, moves onto a new search engine, Phraseanet IV. The photographers on PixOclock are the first in France to enter the Adobe Photographers Directory, accessible via Bridge in Adobe Photoshop C2.
Spéos becomes an Adobe Expert center. 
2003: Opening of Niepce's House as a museum. Publication of the most important compilation of documents ever collected on Niépce, the inventor of photography.
2002: Launch of PixOclock.com - a photo search engine and viewing platform, which allows photographers to broadcast their images in real time.
Our film "Niépce's House" is selected for screening at the Festival du Film de Chercheurs in Nancy.
2001: Our documentary film, "Niépce's House", is presented in Savannah/USA, and at the Festival International du Film Scientifique d'Orsay in France.
2000: Presentation of the archeological discoveries at Niépce's House in the Antique Theatre during the R.I.P. at Arles.
1999: Discovery of the house in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, where Nicéphore Niépce took the world's first photograph, which is currently exhibited in Austin,Texas. Publication of the book "Beginning Photography using the Stop-System" in English and French, co-written by Pierre-Yves Mahé, Richard Zakia and Gordon Brown.
1998: AltaVista declares www.speos.fr the primary website worldwide in the field of "photo education", for its visibility.
1997: Foundation of Prophot-Numérique by Spéos and Prophot.
Numerous firms have all of their employees trained at Spéos, introducing them to the new technologies:
• Agences Magnum, Reuters, Gamma, Deadline, DPPI, Jacana, Hoa Qui, Keystone, Explorer, Top, Rapho
• Canon France, Nikon France, Fuji Film France, Konica France, Minolta France,
• Cartier Joaillerie Internationale
• Groupe Hachette : Paris Match, Onze Mondial, Télé 7 Jours, France Dimanche, Ici Paris, JDD
• Studio Peter Lindbergh
• Studio Luce / Paolo Roversi
1996: Set up of the first Spéos website, hosting the Rencontres d'Arles and the S.I.P.I. (Salon de la Photo à Paris) web pages.
1994: Pierre-Yves Mahé becomes an Apple Expert. 
1993: Distant learning: Creation of trans-Atlantic photo courses, simultaneous classroom discussion on commonly viewed images, between Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.), the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and Spéos via high speed Numéris telephone lines.
1991: Invention of the "Spéos transmission kit", a precursor of Internet transmissions, distributed by the French company SAGEM, which permits distant image discussions via telephone lines. Spéos used this kit at the closing evening at the Rencontres Internationales d'Arles (RIP), to enable photographers Ralph Gibson, Arnold Newman, Harry Calahan, and Eveline Daitz, from offices in Manhattan, to view and comment on their work projected on a giant screen in the Arles Antique Theatre to some 3000 persons.
1990 : First Winter session at Spéos in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design.
1988: Spéos develops the Stop-System, a method to teach darkroom printing and exposure basics in the studio. The Stop-System is currently taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.) and at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
January 1985: Spéos founded by Pierre-Yves Mahé, advertising photographer.
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