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Regina: College Life and Dreams In the spartan room of her halls of residence in Bari, Puglia — a bed, a desk, just a few square metres — Regina tries to forge her own identity, caught between uncertainty and a longing for freedom. Having left Rome years ago to follow a lover, she now dreams of dropping out of university to turn modelling into her career. An ordinary afternoon, in…
Chez Soi: De la vie à l'œuvre Charles-Henry Bédué brings together what constitutes the essence of his work: contemplation, creation, transmission, in order to explore the experience of encounter. "One evening, during the Unseen photography festival in Amsterdam, an unknown photographer invited me into her home. After a day spent looking at images from all over the world, often suspended in impersonal spaces, I was struck by the force of…
The place of the dog in urban tumult and street photography In the urban tumult, at the heart of hurried flows, honking horns, and anonymous crowds, the dog occupies a unique place. Both an intimate companion and a public figure, it moves through the city like a link between private space and the collective scene. Its presence, both discreet and expressive, makes it a privileged subject of street photography, where…
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This is the 27th installment of the online series by Peter Fetterman Gallery called the Power of Photography highlighting hope, peace and love in the world. We invite you to enjoy and reflect on these works during this time. William Klein (b. 1928) Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1990 © The Estate of William Klein/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery Only a smart, sensitive, intelligent, maverick like William Klein could have pulled this image off. It indeed has power…
For the first time since his death, an exhibition of fashion photographs from the 1960s and 1970s by the trailblazing photographer Gösta (Gus) Peterson is presented by presented by Deborah Bell Photographs. Peterson (1923-2017) was one of the most innovative and progressive fashion photographers of the 20th century, known for breaking barriers and challenging conventional approaches to fashion photography of the time. His playful, graphically rigorous compositions were widely published…
Marian Goodman Gallery presents Memory Lost, their first exhibition in New York with Nan Goldin, who joined the gallery in September 2018. This major exhibition is the first solo presentation by the artist in New York in five years and presents an important range of historical works together with two new video pieces and the debut of two new series of photographs. Memory Lost (2019), an important, new digital slideshow,…
Galerie La Lison
5 rue Pierre Chausson, 75010 Paris
from June 11th, 2026 to July 31st, 2026
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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Published by Thames & Hudson, Spirits and Spaces is first monograph to present Roger Ballen's work in colour: a visual revelation that remains grounded in the chaotic, absurd psychological space of the Ballenesque. Having previously expressed no interest in colour photography, Roger Ballen was inspired to engage with the medium after receiving a Leica SL camera as a gift in 2016. Opening up to the potential of colour in his…
Incorpore is the visual account of an immersion. That of Australian photographer of Slovak origin Adrian Meško among the members of the Ballet National de Marseille, under the guidance of the collective (La)Horde. Over three months, shortly before the definitive lifting of pandemic-era travel restrictions, Adrian Meško spontaneously documented the daily life of a ballet company deprived of physical interaction with its audience and confined within Roland Simounet’s fortress-like architecture.…
Caterine Milinaire presents “Festive Fiestas” at De Blois Gallery in Newport, Rhode Island, until July 26, 2026. One celebration photograph for each month of the year, with painting added to some and printed on fine Arche paper. Caterine Milinaire was Born in Paris, France. She was educated there and in England. Caterine Milinaire moved to the US mid 1960’s to work as the youth fashion editor for Vogue Magazine( under…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Cogitations All the major international and national photography festivals have set up shop for the summer. All photographers across the globe—those truly deserving of the title and worthy of bearing with proud—have resumed their grumbling. This follows a pattern that has been firmly established for the past twenty years or so; for nothing is going right in the world of photographic creation—this is nothing new and, unfortunately,…
Katia Kameli Born 1973 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Lives and works in Paris, France. Katia Kameli is a Franco-Algerian filmmaker and visual artist. Raised between distinct social and cultural spheres, she challenges dominant narratives and explores the overlooked aspects of history. She describes herself as a translator, viewing translation not as a simple act of transmission between two cultures but as an extension of meaning and form. For the past twenty…
Meghann Riepenhoff Born 1979 in Atlanta, USA. Lives and works in Bainbridge Island, USA. Meghann Riepenhoff received a BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including SFMOMA, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, C/O Berlin, Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France, Centre…
Marie-Claude Deffarge Born 1924 in Paris, France. Died 1984 near Paris, France. Marie-Claude Deffarge was a French photographer, journalist, and filmmaker. During the German occupation, she studied ethnology and archaeology at the Sorbonne in Paris. Through her involvement with flamenco, she came into contact with left-wing resistance groups against the Nazi regime. From the early 1950s onward, she worked in close collaboration with Gordian Troeller. In 1959, she joined the…
Archives - July 10, 2015 Walker Evans (1903-1975) remains one of the most important and influential photographers in the history of photography. His career spanned the emergence of the modern mass media in the 1920s to the full acceptance of photography as an art form in the 1960s and 70s. Many of Evans’s individual images have become landmarks in both the history of photography and the social history of that…
Archives - July 10, 2019 In parallel to her book, Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie 50 ans d’histoire published by de La Martiniere, Francoise Denoyelle publishes a second one: Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie Une Histoire française, published by Art Book Magazine-Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie. This one is more thematic and historical. She presents it as follows: The Rencontres d'Arles 50 years of photography 50 years of…
New York Life Gallery presents Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002), curated by Johann Mergenthaler in collaboration with the Estate of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and the Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo. This marks the first presentation of this group of photographs in the Americas, following its initial exhibition at Galerie Carole Lambert, Paris (November 11–December 18, 2025). Expanding on the earlier presentation in Paris, the exhibition includes several works that have never before…
Back in Arles for the sixth consecutive year, Sigma has chosen to spotlight in 2026 a documentary and intimate body of work by photographer Thomas Savary. Every year in May, the small town of Allanche, in the Cantal (in the center of France), comes alive to the rhythm of hooves and bells. Nearly 40,000 people gather there to celebrate a centuries-old practice: the transhumance of Salers cattle herds to the…
Kestle Barton hosts the launch of Ray’s Sheds, a new publication by photographer Jem Southam, on Saturday 11 July. The afternoon will include drinks in the garden and a talk in the studio. Sarah Gillespie’s exhibition Birded and Eyed will also be on show in the gallery. Ray’s Sheds brings together photographs, texts and design by Jem Southam in a new 120-page publication printed by Narayana Press in Denmark. The…
Paul Kodjo Born 1939 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Died 2021 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Paul Kodjo is a key figure in the visual history of post-independence Ivory Coast. His career began in Abidjan in the early 1960s, before he moved to Paris in 1967 to study photography. After completing his training, he worked as a photojournalist and opened his first photo studio in the city. In 1970, upon returning to…
This evening, July 9, from 9:45 p.m. to midnight, the traditional Night at the Théâtre Antique will take place. On the program: PRIX PICTET ALFREDO JAAR Chilean artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar, whose politically engaged work explores images, memory and the urgencies of the contemporary world, will be honored at the Théâtre Antique as the recipient of the eleventh Prix Pictet for The End, his series devoted to Utah’s…
The starting point of the exhibition, the poster for the famous series The X-Files, conceals a whole other story, that of a photograph taken in 1975 by the Swiss Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier. Renowned for his numerous books, he claimed, with supporting images, to show evidence of contact with inhabitants of other planets. More than just a poster, Meier’s photograph belongs to a little‑known category of such, taken during UFO…
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