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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…
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This year, the Les femmes s'exposent festival offers 2 prizes and 1 grant to encourage a greater diversity of views on the world: . the FUJIFILM prize will reward a photographic subject related to resilience; . the SAIF prize this year offers a reflection on the theme of borders; . the Lebanon Scholarship is dedicated to professional women photographers of Lebanese nationality or permanently residing in Lebanon, in order to…
Jean-Marie Périer‘s Instagram Chronicles are pure wonders. Every 2 weeks, we publish one of them. In the series "Do not judge yesterday with the eyes of today. » : The girls in the car Yep, now James Bond comes across as an obnoxious sexist. During my exhibitions, school teachers usually come to check if it is possible to show my photos to their students. I understand that very well. But when…
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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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…
On the occasion of Fujikina Arles, photographer Julien Rocheblave presents 36 Clicks of Mount Fuji, a series born from a Fujifilm commission and an unexpected encounter with the landscapes that inspired Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Combining historical research, documentary photography and artistic reflection, he speaks to L'Œil de la Photographie about the origins of the project, the role of the GFX100S II, and his desire to offer a…
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…
Bruno Boudjelal Born 1961, in Montreuil, France. Lives and works in France. A Frenchman of Algerian origins and member of the VU’ agency, Boudjelal approaches photography as a way of life that constantly questions his own identity and confronts us with our own. In Algeria, he has spent 20 years exploring the country, somewhere between a travelogue and a testimony, embracing the fact that his point of view is subjective…
Ming Smith Born 1947 in Detroit, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA. Ming Smith is a foundational figure in American photography whose work surveys Black interiority, spiritual presence, and formal experimentation. In 1972, she joined Kamoinge as its only woman member, and in 1979 became the first Black woman photographer whose work was acquired by MoMA. Working primarily in black and white, Smith uses light as a tool…
Felicia Abban (1935-2024), James Barnor (1929), Willis E. Bell (1924-1999) et Efua T. Sutherland (1924-1996), Denyse Gawu-Mensah (1995), Carlos Idun-Tawiah (1997), Rita Mawuena Benissan (1995), Manuela Nebuloni (1986) et Postbox Ghana, Maame Abena Osaah Asamoah (1997), Marc Riboud (1923-2016), Paul Strand (1890-1976) March 6, 1957: after more than a century under British rule, Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, celebrated its independence, driven by the determination of its leader Kwame Nkrumah…
Sammy Baloji Born 1978 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Lives and works between Lubumbashi, DRC, and Brussels, Belgium. A photographer, visual artist and filmmaker, Baloji explores the history and memory of the DRC, particularly the cultural and industrial legacy of Katanga and the effects of Belgian colonization. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally. In France, his work has been exhibited at Musée du Quai…
Ayana V. Jackson Born 1977 in New Jersey, USA. Lives and works between New York, USA, and Johannesburg, South Africa. Her practice deconstructs 19th- and 20th-century portraiture to interrogate the colonial gaze and its role in shaping racial and gendered identities. Through performative embodiment, she restages archival images, reconfiguring narratives of the African Diaspora. Her work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Studio Museum…
Archives - July 6, 2021 Street photography - the art of capturing the unexpected, the singular and the extraordinary in public space - has been part of Magnum's DNA since its creation in 1947. To understand the original link that unites Magnum to street photography, we must return to the figure of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who, with the first appearance of the Leica portable camera, guessed that the photographer can now…
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