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Vivian Cherry, who is now 98-years-old began her career as a photographer during World War II when she was working as a dancer in Broadway shows and nightclubs. While job-hunting, she saw a handwritten sign that advertised “Darkroom Help Wanted! – No Experience Necessary!” She got the job and started printing news images for Underwood and Underwood, a prominent photo […]

Two masters of photography discutent and works side by side. On one side, Christophe Batifoulier, Picto’s printer. On the other side, Paolo Roversi, fashion photographer and portraitist. Together, the artist and the technician share common memories, discuss printing techniques like piezography and remember about switching from analog to digital cameras.   © Picto France En partenariat avec L’Œil de la […]

Galerie Berinson, in Berlin, presents about 60 vintage prints from the 1960s and 70s by Arno Fischer (1927-2011) taken for the famous GDR women’s magazine Sibylle. Arno Fischer was one of the most important photographer of East Germany and his photographs accompanied life in the democratic republic from the beginning to the end. Already in the 1950s, he gained recognition […]

Spazio Reale, in Monte Carasso, Switzerland, organizes until June three photography exhibitions devoted to Iran. Today, The Eye of Photography presents the work of Kiana Hayeri.  Kiana Hayeri grew up in Tehran, Iran and migrated to Toronto as a teenager. Photography provided a way to bridge the challenging gap in language and culture as she adapted to her new environment. […]

In 1923, as an office boy at the Baltimore Sun newspaper, A. Aubrey Bodine (1906-1970) walked into the office of the editor of the Sunday section, and handed him some photographs he had taken. They were immediately published, and his career as a photojournalist began. Sounds easy, no? Well, in a way it was. As a newspaperman, and as an […]

In her preferred black and white images, Czech photographer Tereza Zelenkova presents a room and its curious inhabitant, evoking the fin de siècle movements of symbolism and decadence, to which the photographer pays homage, with references to the literature of Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and JK Huysmans. Together, these still lives, nudes, and portraits are a captivating inquiry into the cycle of […]

An exhibition entitled Contamination and currently on view in Hong Kong pays tribute to the work of Antoine D’Agata, presenting thirty color and black & white prints covering a period from 1998 to 2018 and a video installation inspired by his latest film Atlas. D’Agata’s photographs are not the result of a search for images but the consequence of his […]

For the seventh consecutive Festival Champs/Contre-champs, the Centre d’art GwinZegal in Guingamp invites visitors to continue exploring representations of the countryside through a selection of photographic and video works from the collections of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques. Why look at animals? — in a series of essays, stories, and poems, John Berger evokes the long history of the […]

Undertaken in Daitoku-ji’s Obai-in temple, this work is part of German photographer Karen Knorr’s ongoing series titled Monogatari, a piece inspired by the artist’s reflection of Japan’s cultural heritage and the wabi-sabi aesthetic (a Japanese sense of beauty that emphasizes simplicity and imperfection) during her travels through the country in 2012. This work combines photography and byobu-style folding screens printed […]

Artist Patrick Sainton and photographer Bernard Plossu are publishing a small book, De part et d’autre [On Both Sides], which gathers and juxtaposed  their work,, creating a dialogue amongst the images, drawings, and diverse forms. “We were introduced to one another in 1991,” explains Bernard Plossu. “Patrick very quickly became a brother, whose work and philosophy I liked immediately. Little […]