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Photo Elysée presents Wish This Was Real, the first exhibition dedicated to Tyler Mitchell (US, 1995) in Switzerland. Oscillating between art and fashion, the 29-year-old artist creates intimate portraits and staged scenes celebrating the beauty of Black subjects. Considered one of the rising stars of American photography, Tyler Mitchell brings together ten years of work in this exhibition. American photographer Tyler Mitchell draws inspiration from visions of paradise, resonating with…

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The Revoir Normandie exhibition invites you to rediscover one of the greatest symbols of French prestige: the ocean liner Normandie. Through never-before-seen photographs by Roger Schall, this retrospective reveals the fascinating epic story of this legendary ship, from its construction to its maiden voyage between Le Havre and New York on May 29, 1935. Innovative, luxurious, and a showcase of Art Deco, the Normandie was much more than a liner:…

Release by Hoxton Mini Press of Benidorm by Rob Ball. Capturing the juxtaposition between its vibrant beach culture and towering urban landscape, Rob Ball’s photographs of this famous Spanish seaside town consider the promise of the perfect package holiday – and whether it has changed since it’s conception in the ’50s. From sunlit palm trees to shimmering neon lights, from pastel-coloured high-rises to bright pink beach towels, from the greys…

This is the most touching portfolio received this week. It's signed Christian Cazenave. He presents it as follows: The Empty House On February 4th, 2025, my parents, aged 94 and 98, left the place where they've lived for over half a century to enter a retirement home. Two weeks later, I returned to the family home in their absence. Without them, it's not quite the house I knew and lived…

After a first sold-out show, Galerie Miranda presents the second exhibition of unique, experimental photographs by Chuck Kelton (1952, American), master darkroom printer whose expressive personal work is made in full daylight, outside of the darkroom. Kelton spends weeks, sometimes months, sketching and preparing each work. His unique, camera-less photographs, are evocative of other media such as watercolor, oil painting, drawing, and invite us into a romantic world that seems…

The 2025 Roger Pic Prize was awarded to photojournalist Véronique de Viguerie for her series Afghanistan, No (Wo)man's Land. For more than three years, the fundamentalist Taliban have been back in power in Afghanistan. For women, it's a waking nightmare: education banned, exclusion from public employment, and travel restrictions. Yet, through her photography, Véronique de Viguerie refuses to portray them solely as submissive victims, frozen in the suffering imposed on…

Carine Roitfeld: Between Audacity and Elegance An undisputed icon of fashion, Carine Roitfeld has shaped the industry with a resolutely avant-garde vision and a bold freedom of expression that has redefined the codes of glamour. Former editor-in-chief of Vogue Paris, founder of CR Fashion Book, and an influential consultant for major fashion houses, she embodies that rare alchemy between subtle provocation and timeless elegance. Her sharp eye, infallible intuition, and…

Presented by f3 – freiraum für fotografie, Radical Beauty profoundly questions our perception of beauty, attractiveness and aesthetics. In this globally unique photo project, over 60 internationally renowned fashion and art photographers worked together with people with Down syndrome to develop individual images and photo series. Surprising and unique portraits were created in professional studio conditions. The protagonists include experienced performers such as actresses Sarah Gordy (UK) and Lily Moore…

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. – Abraham Lincoln, 1858 The University of Saint Joseph Art Museum in West Hartford, Connecticut announced a new exhibition, A House Divided: Photography and the Civil War, on view through May 10. This exhibition, which features over 100 photographs drawn from the private collection of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg and…

Galerie Polaris is hosting Des lieux du Pouvoir, an exhibition by Eric Aupol. It presents it as follows: With this series, Eric Aupol offers us a narrative of power punctuated by a certain redundancy. But upon closer inspection, while the views follow one another, they all complement each other and are the actors of a prolific visual writing that becomes fascinating through its logic. The shots are punctuated by images,…

The « Bicentenial of Photography » will be celebrated from September 2026 to September 2027, in tribute to Nicéphore Niepce, who, almost two hundred years ago, succeeded in obtaining, using a camera obscura, the first photographic image permanently fixed on a photosensitive surface. The Ministry of Culture is launching a national call for projects for the « Bicentenaire de la Photographie » label. All stakeholders in photography, arts, and culture are invited…

Je est une autre An ongoing collection comprised of self-portraits since 2021. Each anthropocentric photograph states a story, revealing the different aspects of the individual’s personality and subjective identity. The idea of the project coincides with the syntactic oddity of Rimbaud ‘s famous phrase “Je est un autre” - I is another, as through introspection we manage to “objectify” ourselves by experiencing our “being” as something detached from us. The…

California 2008, Travel diary: On the trail of Jean-Loup Sieff 1978. Jean-Loup Sieff has just published his book on Death Valley. His black and white photos, published in magazines, fascinated me. I'd just started learning photography. California is still a long way away for me. I'm still a student! Maybe one day. These images by Sieff have been quietly etched in a corner of my memory. 2008 Thirty years later,…

Breath The first time I returned to exploring nature after the long and sad period of the COVID lockdown. Finding myself immersed in nature once again, admiring its beauty, gave me a unique sense of freedom and tranquility. That day, I decided to gift myself the sunrise as a symbol of rebirth, and so it was. From the darkness of the night, everything slowly began to light up and take…