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 Mak Remissa is regarded as one of the most successful Khmer photographers of his generation. He credits his first and third place awards in the 1997 National Photojournalism competition, held by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and chaired by Phillip Jones Griffiths, as a major catalyst in his career. Currently working as a photojournalist for the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA), his work is often seen on the international news wires. His…

Carla Rippey is an American-born visual artist based in Mexico City. Her work seeks to expand the margins of drawing and graphics, applying strategies of appropriation, selection and edition. She works extensively from her collection of archives (images from photographs, postcards, family albums, newspapers, magazines, books and internet sources), which she translates into drawings, artist’s books and prints. She was educated in Nebraska, La Sorbonne, Paris, The State University of…

Born in Pennsylvania, 1954, Mark Ruwedel lives in Long Beach, California. He received his M.F.A. from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught there from 1984 to 2001; he is currently Professor Emeritus at California State University. He received major grants from the Canada Council for the Arts in 1999 and 2001. In 2014 he was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Scotiabank Photography Award and was short-listed…

Brent Stirton is special correspondent for Getty Images, and regular contributor to National Geographic magazine, Stirton specializes in documentary work, generally photographing at the intersection of man and the environment. He works regularly for Stern Magazine, Human Rights Watch and with The Environment Investigation Agency and LAGA as well as the Gates and Clinton Foundation and various UN groups. He has received many awards, including multiple awards from the Overseas…

 David Uzochukwu is an Austrian and Nigerian artist. Growing up in Luxembourg and Belgium, Uzochukwu delved into self portraiture at age thirteen, and began developing a largely digital practice. It lead to vivid collaborations with artists FKA twigs and Iris van Herpen among others, as well as a commission for the World Wildlife Fund. Their self portrait series A FAMILIAR RUIN was included in group show Dey Your Lane! at…

Daisuke Yokota was born in Saitama prefecture in 1983, In 2010, he won the Grand Prix at the 2nd “1_WALL” Photography Competition. and the Foam Paul Huf Award in 2016. In 2019, he won the 45th Kimura Ihei Photography Award. He has published numerous photo collections including “MATTER/BURN OUT,” “VERTIGO,” and “Tarachine.” His major exhibitions include “Site/Cloud” (2014) at the photography museum Foam, “SHAPE OF LIGHT” (Tate Modern, 2018).  …

Tim Walker’s major retrospective (a Victoria and Albert Museum international touring exhibition) opened at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. On this occasion, Michael Hoppen Gallery shares with us the new images Tim Walker just approved for publishing. With more than two hundred pictures on display, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things is the largest museum show of the artist’s work to date, and the artist's solo museum show début…

Until August 26, the Bildhalle Zurich gallery presents Rhythm, the latest exhibition by Bastiaan Woudt. This is how the photographer talks about his images. “My inspiration comes from many forms of art, but in particular, the old masters of photography like Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, all amazing minds. They nailed what it takes to make an interesting image: Dynamics, movement, imperfection, feeling. Besides photography, there are…

The Savannah College of Art and Design presents the 1444 by Hassan Hajjaj at SCAD Museum of Art. Like the amalgamation of influences that make up both his home country of Morocco and the United Kingdom where he currently resides, Hassan Hajjaj’s photographs present a vast array of stylistic references. Hajjaj’s models don bright colors and are set in environments of clashing patterns, in a joyful celebration of multiculturalism. The portraits are…

Photographer Greg Williams has announced the release of his first book, Greg Williams Photo Breakdowns: The Stories Behind 100 Portraits (Whalen Studio Editions | HarperCollins) Featuring an exclusive foreword from his friends Gary Oldman and Gisele Schmidt, the book reveals the stories behind memorable photographs of some of the most famous people in the world. Why does Joaquin Phoenix look so relaxed eating a vegan burger right after winning an…

Since the 1970s, Andy Summers has been one of the great guitarists of his generation as the guitarist of The Police and achieved worldwide fame alongside singer Sting. Andy has also been making a name for himself internationally as an art photographer since the 1980s. Several successful book publications and various international exhibitions followed, underlining his exceptional talent in the field of photography as well. In "A Series of Glances",…

Minor Matters presents the new book by Lisa Kereszi, Mourning. Lisa Kereszi’s earliest photographs from her teenage years are of her father, her grandmother, and the family junk yard they ran for fifty-three years. For over three decades she has collected objects and moments through her camera, while also maintaining an interest in tangible, physical artifacts that extend our relationships to memories. In early 2018 her father died suddenly, less…

 Remèdes Galerie presents Veronica Mecchia's solo exhibition, Wild Flowers. Italian photographer, born in Paris, Veronica Mecchia grew up in Milan where she first trained in art history and then in photography with Giuliana Traverso at the “Il Diaframma” Gallery in Milan. In 2003, she returned to Paris where she continued her art history training before devoting herself entirely to photography. Her artistic affiliation with the photographer Arno Rafael Minkkinen, of…

Laurent Parienti : Reveal, connect, transcend. Nomad at heart, Laurent Parienti is inspired by the sacred feminine, the sea and his travels to create his images, always revealing his desire for exploration and discovery. He lives in a small fishing village on the Mediterranean coast, an isolated and wild place from which he draws his energy and creativity. He likes to reveal the soul of a place or a person,…

A.Galerie pays tribute to Tina Turner with this selection of images. “Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go—purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” Tina Turner   A.Galerie 4, rue Léonce Reynaud 75116 Paris https://a-galerie.fr/