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Kodachrome Following a move I found a batch of Kodachrome II slides made in 1973 with my Pentax Spotmatic II of the time, in the commercial port of the city which was freely accessible for the Marseillais as much as 'it skirted on one side the Digue du large, a dike of nearly 7 km extending from the entrance to the port to L'Estaque and a promenade popular with many…
Liquid entropy : the floating world The diptychs presented here are part of an ongoing project based on nature and offer a glimpse into my exploration of the water ‘forms’ as a subject. Water fascinates me not only for its overwhelming allure, encompassing a range of emotions, for its ultimate significance since it is the liquid of life but most of all, for its visual complexity. The entropy by definition is…
The blue hour Benin is considered the cradle of voodoo, an animist cult linked to a very ancient mythology which confers a vital force on all elements, animals, beings or objects. A country where the spirit world is intertwined with that of the living, where life is so close to death, where a secondary meaning is attributed to everything. The reality that emerges here contains in itself a beyond, an…
Zoom Up - Masterclass Photo
Paris, France
from June 5th, 2021 to November 21st, 2021
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The American photographer Joseph Rodriguez (*1951, Brooklyn/USA) is a legend when it comes to street photography, particularly his arresting images of Latinx Communities in the United States, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Drawn to the social documentary style, he sought out photography in an attempt to challenge stereotypes and expose the world to truthful portraits of American struggle. People are at the heart of his work, which often emerges after lengthy…
It's great to hear from a photographer you liked that seemed to be gone. This is what just happened with Arthur Tress the American surrealist photographer, Arles star in the 70s and 80s, friend and accomplice of Michel Tournier. These images and text appeared on the screen: In Recess : Closed Schools of Northern California In March of 2020, I began looking for an appropriate Covid project, and I…
La Galerie Rouge presents the exhibition of Emmanuelle Bousquet, Haute Couture. Emmanuelle Bousquet, is a photographer and video artist, who has used her body to talk about femininity since the start of her career. Coming from a family of couturier, Emmanuelle's work often confronts fabric with flesh in her images, and goes so far as to sew her own body in this series. Through a world of magic, sometimes black, and…
Tribute to the Düsseldorf school with a 50mm Somehow, I like to be where you don't expect me. It’s not because I like “poetic” photography à la Boubat or Frank that I don’t like, or don’t know how to appreciate something else. In fact, as early as the early 1970s, I had photographed with a 50mm lens a series on cinemas in the American West, and all the signs or…
On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of Gustave Flaubert in 2021, three museums come together and offer an extraordinary and transdisciplinary journey - art, literature, opera, cinema, comics, archeology ... - to reveal the scope of the novel Salammbô on all the arts, as well as its topicality and its legacy in the history of the Mediterranean. "It was in Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the…
The book "Binidittu" examines/addresses the condition of contemporary African migrants in the Meditteranean through the little known figure of Saint Benedict the Moor - son of enslaved Africans, who became the first Modern black saint in history (Sicily 1524-1589). Binidittu questions the amnesia of Europe and Italy with respect to the historical presence of Afropeans, of which Saint Benedict the Moor is one of the most highly representative figures, although…
The worst is not always sure! Arles has just announced its program for this year. So, we absolutely believe in it and we book ahead! Arles 2021 Program July 4 - September 26, 2021 https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en
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From April 17 to June 20, 2021 takes place the 4th edition of Usimages, biennial of industrial heritage photography organized by the Agglomeration Creil Sud Oise (ACSO), programmed and implemented by Diaphane, photographic center of the Hauts-de- France. This edition is fully dedicated to the biennial. This spring, 13 exhibitions are presented in the open air in the municipalities and thus invite the inhabitants to a photographic stroll to discover…
Émeric Feher (1904 Bečej / Serbia - 1966 Paris), photographer of Hungarian origin, arrived in France in 1926. first starting as a workman for Peugeot and then Citroën, in 1933 he joined the studio of photographer René Zuber as an operator. A year later, he joined the Alliance Photo group founded by René Zuber and Maria Eisner, one of the first agencies run by independent photographers and bringing together young…
The selection of photographs presented favors a look around the very functionalist universe of offices of the 1970s, which links the human presence to the architecture of these spaces as an ode to modernity. Bernard Heurtier (1930-2019), accountant by profession, passionate about photography and aviation, in 1961 founded the Société Créations artistiques Heurtier, whose laboratory was located in Rennes, rue Saint-Hélier. The purpose of this company was for "industrial, aerial,…
This exhibition offers a route through the photographic collection of the National Research and Safety Institute for the Prevention of Accidents while working and Occupational Diseases (INRS), focusing on the representation of the working movement. By entering companies through the prism of occupational health and safety, we discover the working conditions of employees and their professional environment, which have evolved and even disappeared over time. Our perception of these initially…
As Italy shut down “all non-essential production activity except essential supply chains” on March 22, 2020, many companies responded with resourcefulness and solidarity, making themselves available to help. reinvent and support the common effort. Mattia Balsamini found these companies, which across Italy have quickly converted or adapted their production lines to respond to the Covid-19 epidemic. "Contingency plans" is a photographic report supported by covid19visualproject.org, a permanent archive of the coronavirus…
Thanks to photographs in the collection of the McCord Museum, it is possible to see where Montrealers worked in the first decades of the twentieth century, to go back in time to discover the places and the atmosphere in which men and women of that time exercised their trades. This foray into the workspaces of yesteryear allows us to see that while some of the occupations pictured still exist, working…
The company innovates and naturally seeks to renew itself, it must take a creative look on the world in order to withstand globalized competition. The artist also perceives the world in his own way and invents new forms that he uses to give us his perception of our environment. Bringing together the youth of creation and the business world is to create bridges between universes that do not necessarily dialogue.…
