“I understood that photography, like any artistic expression, we must look for it deep within ourselves” - Sergio Larrain The Magnum Photos Parisian Gallery presents a selection of more than forty prints by Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain (1931-2012). The exhibition, curated by Agnès Sire, presents the work carried out by Larrain in Valparaiso and on Los Abandonados, abandoned street children. It invites visitors to discover the perspective of a visionary…
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Release by Skira of Vincent Perez's latest book: Ombres et Lumières /Light and Shadows. It is presented as follows: Actor Vincent Perez (born in Switzerland in 1964) first studied photography in Vevey before moving on to theater acting in Geneva and then at the CNSAD in Paris. He then became a student of Patrice Chéreau at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers. His passion for photography never left him. Over the years, he…
We knew her as a politician, former minister, she is also a photographer. She: is Muriel Pénicaud. She is exhibiting at Club We Are until December 5th and Skira Editions is devoting a book to her. Here is the text she wrote: Photography is my way of taming the world, sharing my disbelief, putting violence at bay and making wonder blaze. My desire is for each spectator to become the…
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Until February 18, the Galerie Chantal Bamberger in Strasbourg is presenting a collective exhibition entitled: White! White is a color. Our collaborator, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, has chosen to show you the work of Véronique Sablery accompanied by this text. The white work of Véronique Sablery In this multi-medium and collective exhibition, alongside and among others the drawings of Titus-Carmel and the statuary of Jan Voss, the photographs of Véronique Sablery…
Modern Paintings Davide Conti’s modern paintings, as he himself defines his representations, offer viewers a true illustration of the contemporary, filtered through a rich lexicon of symbolism, references, and visual and technical know-how. His artistic journey began with painting, which then naturally gave rise to his photographic images. In these images, the artist makes his experience with art his own, acquiring and elaborating it according to a personal perspective, and…
I wanted for this exhibition to show my photos as I would have shown movies. I started to photograph actresses at the age of 16-17 and I found in them playmates with whom I have continued since, to create images, to take pictures, but most often wanted to put them in a place, in an atmosphere, as if this shot there, this image there, were the beginning of a film.…
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The first photographic madness in Paris, 7 others will follow next week. PhotoSaintGermain: 25 days, 34 exhibitions, 8 co-productions, new projects and more than 70 photographers. www.photosaintgermain.com
Our collaborator Zoé Isle de Beauchaine is the curator of the exhibition Années 1930 et modernité : l’âge d’or des revues médicales which highlights the link between the pharmaceutical world and photographic modernity through three publications: Art et Médecine, Mieux Vivre and Diversion. Before the arrival of television and then of social networks, images between the wars circulated mainly in the press and illustrated publications. Periodicals like Vu were the symbol of this…
The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021. The Award was awarded to the project of the duo composed of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and French researcher Mélissa Cornet, who produced their reportage over a period of six months with the support of the Carmignac Foundation. No Woman’s…
The title of the book is: Posthume, photographies post mortem et reliques de l’après vie. It is signed Philippe Baudouin and published by Cernunnos editions. The collection of the artist Hervé Bohnert includes more than a hundred post-mortem photographs from France and the world, as well as funerary objects. It has never been shown or documented before. This book highlights, by showing this collection for the first time, the forgotten…
Galerie Olivier Waltman presents the exhibition Brûlure by artist Linda Tuloup, until November 23, 2024. It was in 2020 that Linda Tuloup began her series "Burn" from her home, from her bedroom to her garden, and from her garden to her bedroom. Inspired by a phrase from Gaston Bachelard, "When you want everything to change, one call on fire", she undertook a series of self-portraits made with her Polaroid. Brûlure,…
As part of Of Soul and Joy, a social and artistic mentoring program around photography led by Rubis Mécénat in the township of Thokoza in Johannesburg, and on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of democracy in South Africa (1994- 2024), the endowment fund presents the work of two emerging South African photographers Tshepiso Mazibuko and Sibusiso Bheka in regard to South African news. These two photographers, beneficiaries of Of…
As part of PhotoSaintGermain and the Lithuanian Season in France, the Ségolene Brossette Galerie presents “The journey - Le voyage aux origines”, an exhibition by Marilia Destot. In The journey, Marilia Destot imagines a poetic and memorial journey towards her Lithuanian Jewish origins. Fascinated by her family diaspora, she returns to the country of her maternal ancestors, Lithuania, and explores their history and that of the Litvaks, between exile and…
Taking as a starting point a reflection on the different practices of contemporary photographic creation on the one hand, and the mythical place represented by the La Louisiane hotel on the other hand, PhotoSaintGermain proposed to around ten artists to invest a hotel room for four days around the theme of the body and its representations. In continuation of the creative energy that emanates from Louisiana, known for its tradition…
Sandra Chen Weinstein’s stunning new monograph, Transcend: Freedom to Love, pushes the conversation forward in the lives of the LGBTQ+ community. Profound, brilliant, and insightful, Chen Weinstein’s extraordinary color portraits are accompanied by candid interviews, including with her own child who recently came out as queer, trans, and non-binary, capturing both the complexity of identity as well as providing a mirror of the times. Through a series of photographs of…
Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents LUNAR by Christian Voigt until 25 January 2025. The gallery presents a stunning selection of his new LUNAR series. Iconic spacesuits and technical marvels from the USA and Russia are portrayed in a previously unseen way of poetic quality. The fascinating, large-format photographs show the objects against a black background, as if they were situated in the absolute silence of space, conveying both the loneliness…
This is one of the most original portfolios received this month from Ruben Natal-San Miguel with this text. Wave Hill Cultural & Art Center guests were invited to a fine art photo portrait session with exhibiting artist Ruben Natal-San Miguel that took place on Sat, Aug 3 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM. This session was organized as part of the solo photography exhibition Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Nature Finds a Way, in Wave…
A wonderful parallel world, so close to us when we know how to observe it: the new book by German photographer Lia Darjes tenderly tells of the sometimes unsuspected presence of our animal neighbors. This book contains a series of still lifes that explore the intimate relationship between animals and everyday objects. These productions pay homage to the culinary art and to our furry and feathered friends, while drawing inspiration…
La Boverie in Liège presents until November 10, 2024 the new exhibition by Carine Doutrelepont: Brûlures (burns). She accompanied the images with this text: Why did she choose this title? The intensity and fusion present in volcanic lands are strangely found in the Indian festivals of Holi and Divali celebrating renewal or rebirth, the victory of good over evil, of light over darkness. The collection of photographs that compose it…
Release by Four Eyes editions of Cosmopolite, the book by Fabien Ecochard. In his preface, Jean-Christophe Béchet writes: Referring more to American street photography than to French street photography, Fabien also follows in the footsteps of that sacred Willy Ronis who spoke to us so well about another popular Paris, that of Belleville-Ménilmontant in the 1950s. At the time, we were wary of the turbulent “Apaches” who scared the bourgeois…
As a fine art photographer Astrid Verhoef explores her personal connection to the natural world. The complicated relationship between human and nature is a common thread throughout her work. For these images Astrid works solo, when she photographs herself in these desolate landscapes an anonymous character arises that wants to connect with her surroundings. However, her roots in contemporary modern life often remain visible in the form of an unnatural…