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KEEPING A CURIOUS EYE ON THE WORLD Rich of his diverse origins (Slavic, French, Swiss and African), Sacha Walckhoff's creative spectrum is much enlarged. Although he began his adventure with Christian Lacroix in 1992, at the same time he also designs ready-to-wear and accessories collections for Michel Klein and Kenzo, among others. In 2010, it is quite natural that he is brought to take over the Artistic Direction of the…

”My career as a photojournalist took off in a helicopter carrying the military dictator of Panama. I was a stowaway. Uninvited, I was hoping for exclusive photographs of this media-shy ruler. I didn’t know if I would be invited to exit the aircraft before it landed. It turned out to be my entrée to more than two decades of shooting for Time magazine.” - Tom Zimberoff   A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY…

L’Œil de la Photographie présente chaque mois des sujets provenant de The Agents Club, tels que leurs Insta News, Master Series ou Profiles. Voici : Charles Fréger [Eyemade]   Diplômé de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Charles Fréger est un photographe français dont le travail se concentre sur la représentation du corps social, la construction de l'identité et l'image de soi. Très attentif aux repères visuels par lesquels des communautés spécifiques sont…

It is one of the most amazing books I have seen in a long time. Its title: Predicting the Past, Zohar Studios: The Lost Years. Its author: Stephen Berkman. This is the extraordinary story of a Jewish photographer who opened in the 19th century a photography studio in the Jewish lower east side of New York!   Opticus Naturalis by Stephen Berkman It’s easy to dismiss the camera obscura as a quaint…

When it comes to declining a profession, Sandra Reinflet venture: inventor of true stories. The artist uses photography and text to stage reality - assuming that everything is fiction as soon as you choose a frame. She has notably published four books (including Ne parle pas aux inconnus, published by editions JC Lattès), was the 2020 winner of the Roger Pic Prize of the SCAM and the Carré sur Seine…

“Pico Boulevard begins in Santa Monica between two luxury beachfront hotels and ends at the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Central Avenue in downtown L.A. Traveling east on Pico Boulevard takes you through the Japanese and Iranian neighborhoods of West Los Angeles to the wealthy, predominantly white neighborhood of Rancho Park. Passing Fox Studios and the Hillcrest Country Club, Pico continues through the upscale business and entertainment center of Century City,…

The Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award, sponsored for the seventh time by LaScam (société civile des auteurs multimedia), is designed to help a photographer carry out an original reporting project through an 8,000€ endowment. This award was established by the Pierre and Alexandra Boulat Association to promote the creation of documentary work with a social purpose. Formed in the memory of Pierre and Alexandra Boulat by friends and family after…

For the past few weeks, you may have noticed a limitation of the images available to the non-subscribed reader. The reason is simple: L’Œil de la Photographie is an independent site, the business model of which is largely based on subscription. The total disappearance of advertising and sponsorship complicates the future of the site and its newsletter. Each article in our daily editions is usually accompanied by about ten visuals,…

Since our first toilet portfolio, we have received 3 or 4 portfolios on this subject every week. We decided to make it a series!   A LITTLE HAVEN OF PARADISE written by Marco Volken and published 2020 inside review l'Alpe. If the need arises, a simple bush can do the trick. But above the forest floor, it is in vain that one would look for one. Even in the woods,…

SELF-ANALYSIS I went through my life in a glass bubble. I left hanging words in the wind reflected images in a pool of water. changes in a deafening world. an invisible rainbow. Batsceba Hardy

PEOPLE OF LUXEMBOURG It is because his country and its people are terribly unknown, suffering from widely conveyed prejudices, reducing Luxembourg to a sort of opaque City and its fellow citizens to a shady group of profiteers of tax evasion, that he chose to 'offer to discover a much more complex reality. He therefore decided to devote three years of his life to photographing everyday life, the often endearing daily…

INTO THE FOG Many will agree that fog is one of the most interesting atmospheric agents to capture in a picture: it adds an air of mystery, transports what could be normal scenes of daily life into a timeless dimension where silence reigns absolute. One Sunday afternoon, I grabbed my camera and tripod and rushed out with the aim of creating a series of dark and moody images. Many of…

A CRAZY WIG STORY Pauline, has been a dancer at Crazy Horse Paris for several years now. In the evening, she changes her name and calls herself “Pixelle Canon”. It is from the boxes of the legendary cabaret that she prepares her transformation. Pauline becomes Pixelle, the femme fatale that all of Paris envies. She puts on her iconic red wig, Louboutins heels and light outfits designed by great fashion…

ILLUSION Illusion is a photographic series that questions the state of reality. Triggered by a sense of instability during the lockdown; these hazy, off-kilter images translate a strange combination of serenity and restlessness. The process was a way to shift from my disquiet at losing the security of a fixed reality into embracing the possibilities of this new situation. Mental wellness is a universal topic, regardless of origin, religion, culture,…

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), one of the oldest museums in the United States, has acquired twenty-two works by James Barnor. As a result, the North American institution now holds a series of prints dating from 1950 to 1980. The selection brings together some of Barnor's earliest photographs of 1950s Ghana, black-and-white and color photographs taken in England during 1960s, and prints from the 1970s, when Barnor helped introduce…