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Written by Giovanna Calvenzi In order to explain how it all went, we need to start right from the beginning. Because the story behind this book starts out from a sequence of unforeseen events, bordering on the unbelievable, yet ones that I shall endeavour to put into order. In 1976, Gabriele Basilico had graduated three years earlier. He wanted to be a photographer, or to take photographs at any rate,…

The 13th Rencontres de la photographie In Gaspésie (Canada) will be taking place this summer in 12 municipalities, towns and national parks on the peninsula,  the chosen  theme is Radical hope. Presented for the most part outdoors, the 18 exhibits and installations will display the work of 16 artists from Québec and elsewhere in the world. The great majority of the exhibitions are running from July 15 to September 30, 2022. According to…

James Hyman Gallery presented recently the very first London exhibition of one of the greatest figures in the history of photography, the Countess of Castiglione. This major solo exhibition includes over fifty rare portraits of the Countess from the 1850s to the 1890s. Directed and staged by the Countess, herself, and created in collaboration with the studio photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson, these “self-portraits” are some of the most extraordinary pictures in…

Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle In this summer holiday period, it seems to me appropriate to tame the new environmental atmosphere that smokes out our fad: Photography. How are the different types of technology and the various systems of communication evolving to reach, to seduce and to satisfy the unconditional photographers? Technically, there is not much to say despite the uninterrupted flow of innovations, each more essential than the other, which…

On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we pay tribute to Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann with a selection of his most iconic images. Erich Hartmann, who would have been 100 years old July 29, 2022 – was a quintessentially 20th-century photographer, both in the story of how he came to be an image maker, and in his pioneering of emerging practices. Born into a Jewish household in Munich in 1922,…

“Everybody’s summer looks different depending on where and how they live.’’ - Ruben Natal-San Miguel ‘’The Rights of Summer‘’ solo show photography exhibition by Ruben Natal-San Miguel is based on a 2015 Call of Entries that was juried by himself and Sean Corcoran (curator of photography and prints for the Museum of the City of New York). It showcased his original photography alongside the work of over 25 other photographers…

Galerie Ephémère presents Gil Rigoulet and his guests, Victoire Orth and Nervis Ferrer. Three dialogues around the Body, three intimacies. Abstract Truth "Time reveals an intimacy, 20 years later these images reappear in serenity, a vanished love lays down these precious paintings. These visions are a sketch. This body that I look at every day is no longer a body made of skin and flesh, it draws pictorial forms born…

Paris-based photographer and filmmaker Deidi von Schaewen usually works for several years on series of motifs from which she develops “unexpected typologies that reveal the unlimited creativity of human beings”. Many of these series have been and are still being made in India, a country she has travelled through for over thirty years, fascinated by everyday life in the countryside and the cities: huts in the slums of Bombay, murals of…

Oliviero Toscani, one of the most well-known photographers on an international level, was capable of breaking the mould and undermining certainties that appeared permanent in the last decades of the twentieth century. On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the Municipality of Milan celebrates the event at Palazzo Reale, hosting the exhibition Oliviero Toscani. Professione fotografo, that collects his works from the early 1960s to the present day. The exhibition…