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:: Spéos in a few dates ... 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.January 1985: Spéos founded by Pierre-Yves Mahé, advertising photographer. 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). 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. 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. 1994: Pierre-Yves Mahé becomes an Apple Expert.  1996: 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 1998: AltaVista declares www.speos.fr the primary website worldwide in the field of "photo education", for its visibility. 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. 2000: Presentation of the archeological discoveries at Niépce's House in the Antique Theatre during the R.I.P. at Arles. 2001: Our documentary film, "Niépce's House", is presented in Savannah/USA, and at the Festival International du Film Scientifique d'Orsay in France. 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. 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. 2005: Spéos celebrates its 20th anniversary! 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.  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).
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