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It was on a page of Paris Match that a Cartier-Bresson image– the famous one of a small boy carrying two large wine bottles on Rue Mouffetard in the French capital – caught the attention of Chris Killip, enrolled at the time on a hotel-management course on the Isle of Man. His life took a new direction when he abandoned the management course and dedicated himself to becoming a photographer.…
A few days after the Cali earthquake, I received a short email from Frédéric Chastro, along with a few photographs. He explained that, having lived in Cali, Colombia for nearly forty years, he had gone through the earthquake with some fear. The very next day, he volunteered to take part in the rescue operations. He hadn’t forgotten to slip his small camera into his bag. That is how he draws…
The Denver Art Museum (DAM) announces the inaugural James Balog Earth Vision Awards (JBEVA), a new biennial photography award supporting artists from around the world whose work explores environmental change and humanity's relationship with the natural world. Endowed by renowned environmental photographer James Balog and a circle of dedicated donors, the awards aim to provide significant financial support for lens-based artists whose past work and future aspirations demonstrate a sustained…
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Collective sale of fashion photos for Sidaction From June 22 to July 8, 2021. The Sidaction association, its president Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and its vice- president Line Renaud, are organizing an exclusive sale of photo prints by the most renowned fashion photographers, under the artistic direction of its ambassador, Jean Paul Gaultier. All proceeds from this event, organized with the support of the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la…
Viennese photographer Manfred Baumann and his muse & wife Nelly celebrate their 25th anniversary. This is why this sensual B / W photograph in a bathtub was created with the self-timer in LockDown! Back in 2009, they already did a self-portrait, the rest of the portfolio shows their collaboration through the years. This is what they send to their friends at this occasion. Manfred Baumann was born in Vienna in…
The Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease) At first glance, this autobiographical project - which I've titled after a Kinks song « The Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease) » - looks like a funny series, but it's actually a serious introspective essay. Ron Padgett, the great American poet (and friend) who has seen some of…
Natural History Museum Denmark
Øster Voldgade 5–7, 1350 Copenhagen, Denmark
from November 21st, 2025 to September 20th, 2026
Galerie de Bazillac
16/17 Galerie Montpensier, 75001 Paris.
from September 14th, 2026 to September 20th, 2026
Fotografa/os por Colombia
Buenaventura, Colombia
from August 25th, 2026 to September 30th, 2026
IRIS Arles
12 rue Diderot, 13200 Arles, France
from August 20th, 2026 to October 4th, 2026
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Archives - September 7, 2023 The Hulett Collection participates in the inaugural edition of PHOTOFAIRS New York showcasing the work of Dutch artist, Pieter Henket, with the series Congo Tales created deep in the Congolese rainforest working with the people of the Mbomo District that reside there, to tell the stories, myths, and fables passed down from generation to generation. Pieter Henket is a Dutch photographer living and working in New York City…
Archives - September 7, 2015 Visa pour l’Image and Le Figaro Magazine have joined forces to create a Visa d’or award in recognition of the lifetime achievement of an established photographer who is still working. Picture editors from magazines around the world select the winner for this, the third year and therefore third award. The laureate is Pascal Maitre (1955), french photographer from Cosmos agency. The Lifetime Achievement Visa d’or…
Misread (2024–2025) Misread examines the distance between being seen and being understood through a series of constructed underwater portraits. A woman occupies a transparent tank in which water makes her intensely visible while refraction alters her face, gestures and perceived identity. The same element that creates luminosity and weightlessness also restricts movement, breath and voice. The project begins with the Chinese stereotype of the “flower vase”, in which a beautiful…
The Way of the Japanese Bath While all the primeval geological and geothermal rumblings under Japan have set off devastating volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and earthquakes (ten percent of the world's volcanic activity occurs in Japan), they have also provided the 125 million inhabitants of the island nation on the Ring of Fire with a very unique way of life. An estimated 100 million people check in each year at onsen…
Public Interiors I arrived in Vietnam without a photographic project. I was simply there on holiday. Then these nocturnal façades imposed themselves, naturally, without my looking for them. For three weeks I walked through Hanoi, Huế, Hội An, Tuy Hòa and Hồ Chí Minh City after dark, a Ricoh GR3x in my pocket, no plan. What drew me back night after night were small scenes around the shops: a vegetable…
On the banks of the Styx Since time immemorial, death has been part of human daily life. Long managed within the family home, it has gradually shifted to healthcare facilities with the rise of modern medicine. In the space of a few generations, rituals that were once passed down naturally have become little known, or even invisible. Yet men and women continue to care for the deceased on a daily…
Mea Silva Mea Silva explores the forest as a space for experience, reflection and encounter with living beings. The installation combines photography, video and sound design to create a journey in which the gaze moves forward, hesitates, delves deeper and loses its way – just like a walker who leaves the marked path to enter the depths of the world. The forest as both a trial and a revelation, as…
Seuil SEUIL is a black-and-white series spanning 13 years. For this project, I have removed the locations, dates and captions in order to keep the images timeless and detached from their immediate context, without evoking any specific reference or personal memory, and to leave each stage in a deliberately suspended state of time. The series unfolds like a silent film, in two parts: what things convey, and then what people…
The Steppe Player Thierry lived by night, alone with his cat. He would eat a plate of pasta in the evening and another in the morning, engaging in no activities other than gaming and a spiritual quest. Self-taught, he became the French chess champion before turning away from the game to devote himself to meditation and the study of esotericism—primarily the writings of Rudolf Steiner. Aside from archives discovered on-site,…
I first met the photographer Bastiaan Woudt through gallerist Benjamin Jaeger, and was immediately drawn to his singular way of combining minimalism, portraiture, and mystery. With Bastiaan’s recent pilgrimage to Japan, and his first exhibition in Italy on the horizon, I wanted to look back at his story while catching up on both old and new work. I also had a chance to chat with his gallerist, Vincenzo Maccarone, co-founder…
Neue Zürcher Zeitung is the winner of the Visa d’Or for International Daily Press: Gökşin Sipahioğlu by Sipa Press. Every year since 1990, Visa pour l'Image has given international daily newspapers a stage of their own. Twenty-four titles are competing in 2026 for the Visa d'Or Daily Press Award — from The New York Times to L'Équipe, Le Monde to Helsingin Sanomat — each represented by a single photographer and…
The Douglas Kirkland Estate, headed by Françoise Kirkland, Douglas Kirkland's wife and longtime business partner, who has managed his archive since his death in 2022, has stepped in this year as sponsor of two separate prizes at Visa pour l'Image, the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan. Visa d'Or Online by the Douglas Kirkland Estate Launched in January 2026, this is a new online award: four prizes of €1,500 each, given…
It’s summer, as heralded by the The Eye of Photography column ritually opened to enthusiasts each season when the sun and sea bathing return – sometimes too much sun, as this year. Meanwhile, holed up in the cool in front of my computer, I took advantage of this break to relax, – and entertain you, by selecting among my nude photobooks those ostensibly made to amuse, to have fun, made…
A photographer based in Geneva, Jean-Marc Martin du Theil has self-published a book, printed by Printer Trento in Italy, that tells the story of a life—his own—in photographs. Drawing on these words by photographer Raymond Depardon (from Voyages, Éditions Hazan): “I would tell a young photographer that they must photograph everything, have the awareness and the courage to photograph their life. It can be difficult because one will be accused…
The Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) presents The inner sky by Sarah Rhodes, for the 2026 Wai Tang Commissioning Award. Sarah Rhodes’s body of work The inner sky uses analogue darkroom techniques to create layered photographs that speak to an experience of our inner and outer worlds. The artist created these images as the recipient of the Wai Tang Commissioning Award, and one work from the series will be acquired…
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