Éditions Contrejour is publishing Gladys' monograph. Gladys began her career as a photographer at the end of the 1970s and signed her photographs with her first name only. Her first black and white images explore a world where childhood memories, imaginary landscapes and poetic stories coexist. In 1987, Gladys benefited from the Villa Médicis scholarship outside the walls and went to Japan for a residency. The Mamonakou series continues work…
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Jef Van den Bossche presents his book On a soif. As a child, my father used to take me to small pubs all across Belgium. In 2001 he wrote a book about the last so-called volkscafés, or people’s pubs in the province of Antwerp. Nearly two decades later I returned the favor and dragged my father on a quest for Belgium’s last remaining volkscafés. Although no strict definition applies to…
L'Officiel Belgique announces that photographers from Studio Harcourt are arriving at TheMerode and offering a private shooting worthy of the biggest stars to Brussels photophiles. Notice to amateurs! From April 19 to 21, 2024, the Brussels private club TheMerode welcomes the talents of the prestigious Studio Harcourt. The opportunity for enthusiasts, members of the circle or not, to have their portrait taken by those who immortalized the greatest, enhanced by…
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Rock photographer Neal Preston recently launched “Outtake Gallery”, an online platform featuring never-before-seen images of some of rock music’s most legendary performers. In his statement about creating Outtake Gallery, Preston says: “I've been fortunate to have had a long and fairly successful career as a professional photographer. When I moved from New York City to Los Angeles at the tender age of 19, part of what I packed in my…
Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents a retrospective of British celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) until 10 September 2023. The exhibition Famous shows more than 125 portraits of international music legends, movie stars and fashion icons, particularly from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to exclusive colourised editions, the focus is on classic black and white portraits. Terry O'Neill is one of the most iconic, influential and…
Some images that you see once, you will never get out of your head. They will stay in your mind forever—because they triggered a certain emotion, and often, because they are uniquely beautiful, too. Images like these sometimes become part of the collective memory and, in Arthur Elgort’s case, part of fashion photography’s collective memory. Arthur Elgort is a master of creating iconic moments: Stella Tennant, fully dressed, diving into…
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The Michael Hoppen Gallery in London presents Okashi, an exhibition bringing together a kaleidoscope of works and objects on the visual identity of an eclectic Japan still little known to the public. The concept of okashi is part of the history of Japanese aesthetics and corresponds to the beauty, even the happiness that comes from encountering strange and unexpected things. The exhibition brings together photographs, textiles, theater posters, erotic prints…
Julia Gragnon presents an exhibition in her Galerie de l’Instant entitled Corps et Âme. She wrote this text: I was as close as possible to Dance, even before I was born! Indeed, my mother Tessa Beaumont, star dancer, danced until more than 5 months of pregnancy... her male partners could no longer carry us! So I spent my childhood surrounded by tutus and slippers, in the smell of rosin, the…
Reza exhibits as part of L’Iran en révolutions 1979-2024 at the Cosmopolis in Nantes. Reza's photos bear witness to the wave of hope aroused by the Islamic revolution, a hope quickly dashed by the repression which fell on the Iranian population, in particular on women, forced to wear the black chador like others wear grief. The exhibition also covers the outbreak of the war against Iraq, the hostage taking at…
The Centre for British Photography presents an online exhibition by Simon Marsden entitled Visions of a Ghost Hunter. Simon Marsden wrote of his work: "From the very beginning of recorded time all the great civilisations of our world have believed in ghosts and the supernatural in some form or other. These are ancient mysteries and to dismiss them is to deny ourselves that arcane knowledge of the past that has…
Deconstructing Edward Weston’s Nudes in the form of self-portraits, the artist Tarrah Krajnak inserts herself as both author and subject into Weston’s original work. Replicating the poses of models Bertha Wardell and Charis Wilson, she sits before the camera with a remote shutter release in hand, her body depicted beyond the boundaries of Weston’s original fragmentation, confronting the lens with a light meter, a gas mask, a defiant gaze. Krajnak’s…
Les Promenades Photographiques de Marseille are joining forces with the Artplexe cinema to offer a photographic exhibition within the walls of the most recent cinema created by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, inaugurated in October 2021 on the Canebière. Until September 30, 2024, photographer Romain Boutillier, an adopted Arlesian, will present his series Lost in Camargue highlighting a timeless and mysterious territory, full of history, as opposed to the iconic images that…
David Schonauer reported in Pro Photo Daily the following news : Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly resigned from the board of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation on Tuesday, blasting the group for cowardice in rejecting Trump critic Liz Cheney as the recipient of its top yearly award. Kennerly, who served as White House photographer during the Ford administration in the 1970s, claimed in a letter to fellow trustees…
Sylvia Galmot : Committed! Sylvia Galmot: COMMITTED! Sylvia Galmot freely admits that she didn't choose photography, but photography chose her. She began her career working for 10 years as a photographer for the most prestigious Parisian agencies, including H&K. This experience enabled her to work with a host of celebrities, including Mélanie Thierry, Isabelle Adjani, Raphaêl Enthoven, Emmanuelle Seigner, Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Andrée Putman, Alain Chabat and Lambert Wilson,…
The Fondazione MAST presents the exhibition Vertigo - Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes curated by Urs Stahel: 29 international artists address the theme of our changing society through the artistic medium of video art. From February 10 to June 30, the MAST galleries will host 34 video art installations that analyze, comment on, explore and investigate rapid change in different contexts, including work and production processes, trade and circulation, new…
“Our columnist, Thierry Maindrault, is exhibiting in Kyoto at the Kaleïdoscope Museum Kyoto, as curator, with his photographs and those of Alain Robert, and Jun Sato. He presents this exhibition as follow: Nebula Incerta by Thierry Maindrault These are some of the latest works resulting from my work, begun in 1966, on uncertain vagueness. Research and experiments that I was able to refine until 2008. This photographic technique anticipates the…
They adorn the walls, dress the elevator doors, appear in monumental installations on the ground floor; on the occasion of the “Paris Venise en tête-à-tête” campaign, anonymous photographs are installed at the Samaritaine department store in Paris, before flying off to the Biennale. These photographs are those of men and women who lived in the seventies. Neither place, nor date, nor name are specified... it is up to us visitors…
For three years, Marine Peixoto photographed the sports sessions at the municipal street workout area in Bercy Park, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. She created an exhibition presented at the BAL in Paris, as well as a book co-published with Roma Publications. What if photography were a sport? When Medhy, the creator of Bercy Street Workout, invited her to immortalize this park and its members, French photographer Marine Peixoto…
We received this email from Dan Hayon. It is very sad! Hello J.J. I am writing to you because I saw in yesterday's newsletter a post concerning the sale at Christie's of a famous photo by Man Ray from the collection of Marion Meyer, estimated between 40,000 and 60,000 euros. A few days ago, an American friend, a former photography professor and great collector, Jack Wilgus, published a post on…
Clarissa Ward, CNN's multi-award-winning chief international correspondent agreed to chair the work of the jury for this 31st edition. She has been covering the planet's most violent conflicts for more than 20 years. Her experience, her career and the respect she inspires in the profession will make her participation in Bayeux an event. JOURNALISTS SEND YOUR REPORTAGES NOW AND UNTIL JUNE 6 Photo, radio, television and written press reports dealing…
LAUNDRY Pionki, Poland, 2023 People with intellectual disabilities consist of about 3% population of Poland. The same is true for Pionki, a town in the Masovian Voivodeship. These persons were often visible wandering on the streets of the town, prompting the city authorities to establish 25 years ago to provide them with the necessary assistance. A puppet theater was also created there, where they became actors This marked the beginning…