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The Riedisheim International Photography Fair is celebrating its 40th anniversary and is calling for applications. .In 2027, the Riedisheim (Alsace- France) International Photography Fair will celebrate its 40th edition. To mark this exceptional anniversary, the Fair is calling for applications from photographers and artists wishing to present their work at an event that has become a must attend event on the art photography calendar. For four decades, the Riedisheim International…
This year, Saal Digital is celebrating its forty-fifth anniversary. Founded by Reinhard Saal, Saal started out as a small shop. With nearly 150 employees and a production facility based in Röttenbach (Germany), in the Franconia region, the company now distributes its products to 29 countries. From the darkroom to Artificial Intelligence As early as 1986, Saal was one of the pioneering companies to introduce the concept of the one-hour photo…
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and German Photographic Society (DGPh) offer two awards for writing about photography ▪ The DGPh Research Award “Thinking Photography”, endowed with €3,000, recognises projects in photographic theory and history. ▪ The DGPh Award “Writing Photography”, endowed with €1,000, honours pioneering publications on photography, as well as journalistic, essayistic and other publications. ▪ Applications for both prizes can be submitted in German or English from 1 July…
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Fog The reddish tiles were still damp and the dead leaves, fallen from the bare trees and black as ravens, when slowly, like an ethereal and graceful woman, a thick blanket of fog descended. She landed on everything and everyone with her wet, cold veil. Everything was full of it. The old and imposing tree, which turned its branches heavily towards the sky, as if to welcome that goddess as…
If we were a self-righteous magazine, we would be talking about Redemption! The one that signifies the triumph of Art over the Flesh. But we're just a photography magazine, so we'll forget about redemption in favor of adventure and amazing evolution. Some of these photos are 40 years old. They are signed Eric Neveu. He was at the end of the 70s and during the 80s, the emperor of the…
The Hulett Collection presents Translucence, an online exhibition of newly created works by Kit Young. The images were curated from work spanning the past five years during time spent abroad, for the most part, exploring cities and locations within cities for the very first time. Whether it’s boarding a train in New York, walking under the midday sun in Italy or enjoying a stroll along the Seine in Paris, these images…
Tom Stoddart Award for Excellence
Great-Britain
from July 1st, 2026 to October 1st, 2026
IRIS Arles
12 rue Diderot, 13200 Arles, France
from July 4th, 2026 to August 16th, 2026
Artchives
Paris, France
from June 30th, 2026 to August 15th, 2026
Format Festival
Derby, Great-Britain
from June 24th, 2026 to September 7th, 2026
Alo Galerie
12 Rue Richard Lenoir, 75011 Paris, France
from July 7th, 2026 to July 14th, 2026
Triennale of Photography Hamburg
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Allemagne
from June 5th, 2026 to September 22nd, 2026
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I met Patrick Gagey back in 2022, when I was strolling along the rue du Docteur Fanton and discovered his shop-boutique “La Valise Arlesienne”. Once entered, I entered his very unique universe, bringing together photographic antiquities, valuable prints and curiosities, and asked him for a little tour… the rest is history. So let us take you to Patrick´s world – enjoy the read! Nadine Dinter: When was “La Valise…
For his first season at the helm of the Pavillon Populaire's programming, Luce Lebart has chosen to return to origins. A first curatorial gesture devoted to firsts. First images, first inventions, first books, first trials, first emotions. Montpellier's photography hub thus opens its 2026 season with an exhibition that questions not so much the birth of a medium as its notion of beginning. Through nearly two hundred works by more…
Presented at the Bridgehampton Museum, Looking is a three-person exhibition of works by painter, Rainer Andreesen, photographer, Christophe von Hohenberg and sculptor, Oscar Molina. Their different ways of looking and interpreting what they observe. Curated by Lana Jokel. We chose to show you the work of Christophe von Hohenberg. He introduces it as follow. For over forty years, I have sought to capture a reality that does not simply document…
The Conseil départemental de la Sarthe invites you to discover a new edition of the Saison photographique at the Abbaye Royale de l'Épau. Set against the exceptional backdrop of the abbey and its grounds, this open-air photographic trail offers a stroll where heritage, nature and contemporary creation converse through images and stories. This year, five photographers take over the site and invite us to explore the bond that connects us…
The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation is hosting the book launch and signing of Benita Suchodrev’s new book, Find Me Paradise (Kehrer Verlag), on July 9 2026 at 3pm. Eros, Thanatos, ominous birds, ripened fruits, lonely forests, and pensive queens of the night shape this vivid catalogue of encounters that feel both fragmented and deeply interconnected. Like flashes of memory rooted in raw, unflinching realism, the images in Find Me Paradise capture intense yet fleeting moments, emblematic of…
Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Gainsbourg is an actress, singer and director. Since her very early debut, she has carved out a career spanning cinema, music and personal projects, both in France and internationally. Alongside her work in film, she has forged a musical path where songwriting, vocals and performance proffer a different extension of her connection to emotion and intimacy. In 2021, with Jane par Charlotte, a film dedicated to her…
Companion, research subject, symbol, mirror, or fantasy, animals have never left the photographers’ frame since the invention of the medium. Animal Model takes us on a voyage through two centuries of images that reveal how photography has shaped our view of animals and profoundly influenced the ways we love, exploit, or defend them. Bringing together works by renowned artists as well as anonymous photographs, the exhibition leads us on a…
Archives - July 7, 2011 A wink to "Des Clics et des classes", organized within the Rencontres (a nation-wide operation devoted to sensitizing young people to photography), the workshops shown here have been selected by the galleries Lumière des Roses and Un Livre, une Image. "I have been rummaging for pictures for several years but it is only recently that I began collecting pictures of school children and their classrooms,…
Archives - July 7, 2015 The exhibition is wonderful. Une histoire de la Photographie, curated by Anne Morin and the collector Lola Garrido, is unexpected and original, filled with surprises and discoveries. The presentation of the 80 photographs is so sophisticated that they don’t even require captions. It’s a delight. Jean-Jacques Naudet EXHIBITION Une Histoire de la Photographie Collection Lola Garrido In partnership with The Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles…
Today in Arles, the 57th edition of the Rencontres de la Photographie opens. More than 40 exhibitions, 26 venues, more than 160 artists, more than 50 curators spread across 12,000 m². Today's edition is entirely devoted to it: on the menu, the introductory text by Christoph Wiesner, the Director of the Rencontres d'Arles, Omar Victor Diop kindly agreed to answer our traditional Monday Questionnaire, Fujikina Arles 2026 and a first…
Omar Victor Diop : Une perspective décoloniale Chez Omar Victor Diop, chaque image est un territoire où se rencontrent l’Histoire, la mémoire et l’imaginaire. Depuis plus d’une décennie, l’artiste sénégalais, né à Dakar en 1980, construit une œuvre d’une remarquable singularité, où l’autoportrait devient un puissant instrument de réappropriation historique et de réflexion contemporaine. Héritier de la grande tradition du portrait africain tout en puisant dans les codes de la peinture…
William Klein Born 1926 in New York, USA. Died 2022 in Paris, France. Setting home in Paris in 1947, William Klein studied painting, attending Fernand Léger’s studio. He came to photography in the early 1950s as a painter, extending his early abstract pictorial work into the darkroom. In 1956, he published his first book, shot on the streets of his native New York. With it scathing modernity, it remains an…
Martine Barrat Born 1933 in Oran, Algeria. Lives and works in New York, USA. Martine Barrat is a photographer and filmmaker. Based in New York since 1968, she has developed close relationships with residents of the South Bronx and Harlem. Working in collaboration with South Bronx gangs in the early 1970s, she created a series of videos titled You Do the Crime, You Do the Time, screened in 1978 at…
Harry Gruyaert Born 1941 in Antwerp, Belgium. Lives and works in Paris, France. Harry Gruyaert first studied film and photography in Brussels. After working as a cinematographer for Flemish television, he began developing, in the late 1960s, a unique approach to color in his photography. A trip to the United States in the late 1970s, where he discovered Pop Art and leading American color photographers such as Stephen Shore and…
Edward Steichen Born 1879 in Bivange, Luxembourg. Died 1973 in Redding, USA. Edward Steichen was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he constantly opened up his photographic practice to new genres and disciplines. In the 1900s, he was an important figure of the American pictorialism. Then his practice moved towards a radically different style, marked by his work on light and composition. In…
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