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Archives - August 14, 2020 In 2008, I recovered the films of the photos taken by my father, Charles Devigne (1920-1996). By scanning them, I rediscovered the richness of this family heritage from an adult perspective, and I realized the importance of passing it on. After digital restoration of the sometimes damaged negatives, the idea of ​​showing the public some of these photos took form. After a first exhibition featuring…

Archives - August 14, 2025 The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Panjereh, an exhibition by Iranian-American artist Sheida Soleimani. Panjereh—which means ‘window’ or ‘passageway’ in Farsi—builds on Soleimani’s ongoing Ghostwriter series, in which she explores her parents’ experiences of political exile and migration as a lens to examine broader systems of geopolitics. Known for her intricate, studio-based compositions that combine photographs, props, live animals and even her own parents…

The photographer Peter Hujar was a central figure in the queer downtown scene in New York in the 1970s and early 1980s. When he died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1987, his photographs were largely unknown to the wider art world. Today he ranks among the important photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. In the early 1950s, Peter Hujar studied photography at the School of Industrial Arts in…

Indian photographer Aman Alam presents a solo exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles, following his selection as the recipient of the 2025 Serendipity Arles Grant. Alam’s exhibition, Ozymandias (2020–ongoing), is an intimate and multidisciplinary body of work that examines memory, identity, and cognitive decline through the artist’s experience of caring for his grandmother after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Drawing on photography, sculpture, machine intelligence, and family archives, the project…

This Wednesday, August 12, 2026, will no doubt have left its mark on the minds of our fellow citizens as a chapter of our contemporary history: a solar eclipse was there for all to see. They came in great numbers, with their families — nearly two hundred people — to observe it at the spot known as “la découverte,” the Place du Forum in Daix, a small Burgundian commune in…

The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. This is a selection of their portfolio : Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This The Agents Club, founded in 2018 by Alexandre and Wanda Orlowski, is a unique mobile platform showcasing the most sought-after photography agencies worldwide and the exceptional image-makers they represent. This feature was first published by The Agents…

Archives - August 13, 2020 During the last Triennale of Photography in Hamburg, I ran accross the photographer Katja Ruge during the opening at the Deichtorhallen. Apparently, she had recognized me over Instagram. Due to her great energy and radiant freshness, we kept in touch. In 2019, I met her again during the big anniversary exhibition tour of the BFF – Berufsverband Freier Fotografen and Filmgestalter, I promoted in Stuttgart,…

Archives - August 13, 2024 Little Chelsea Experience, a photography gallery and cultural venue based in Lisbon, announces its participation in the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles OFF Festival. Named after the iconic Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan—a legendary retreat for creative icons like Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, and Bob Dylan, among many others—the gallery is dedicated to creating a community of artistic exchanges and inspiration. The photographers featured…

The desire to capture ephemeral forms of social reality underlies all of Brassaï best work of the 1930s – both the photographs of graffiti and the images of Parisian nights and their “secrets”  and reflects the particular cultural climate of the late 20s and 30s in which the emergent science of ethnography had much in common with the Surrealist avant-garde. – Marja Warehime, Brassaï: Images of Culture and the Secret…

Published by Kehrer Verlag, “Unspoken” by Jo Ann Chaus uses staged self-portraits to explore womanhood and self-empowerment. Over the course of more than a decade, Unspoken evolved from the artist’s private exchange with her camera into a profound visual investigation of identity. In this series, Jo Ann Chaus embodies a range of female stereotypes and archetypes figures shaped by inherited expectations and internalized roles. Though a modern, independent woman, the…

Holidays – a time to put your everyday worries aside for a while and see things from a different angle, such as visiting a non-photographic exhibition… and there to rediscover new perspectives from which to approach the medium of photography critically… Leon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism. He was born in Ostend, grew up there and also worked there during what was arguably the most innovative…

Jayne H Baum – JHB Gallery presents a selection of photographs by Yuki Onodera. “Yuki Onodera is a Japanese photographer who has lived in Paris since 1993. Her work explores the concepts of floating and weightlessness by means of technical and artistic experimentation. In the series ‘Portraits of Second-Hand Clothes’, she photographed clothes she acquired during an exhibition by the artist Christian Boltanski, at which visitors could buy bags of…