Published by TBW Books, here is My Mother, My Son by Mary Frey. Using the title of her 2004 photograph, My Mother, My Son, as an inspirational and creative starting point, Mary Frey pulls from her vast archive of photographs to create a pictorial story collapsing linear time. Frey intimately and masterfully captures subjects at ease in environments that feel, at once, wholly familiar yet unmoored from their own reality.…
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This new book published by GOST Books presents a typology of 100 portraits of households in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia taken in 2020 during some of the strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world. The restrictions allowed photographer Luke David Kellett a unique opportunity to compile a visual representation of architecture and inhabitants of Newcastle and contribute to a collective memory of the period. “I’ve only felt compelled to work…
Éditions du Ruisseau presents the book Le Bordeaux des grands photographers. Between the 1930s and 1960s, Jean Dieuzaide, Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, François Kollar, Henri Cartier-Bresson and René-Jacques came to photograph the Aquitaine capital and its surroundings. The streets and monuments of old Bordeaux, the still active harbour de la Lune, the grape harvests with ox carts in Margaux or Saint-Émilion, the small street trades, the oyster farmers' huts of…
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Symphony Symphony is a series of personal works that come close to painting and pay homage to it, without crossing the line between photography and painting. Kami Zargham www.kamiphoto.com
The Galerie Roger-Viollet Hors les Murs and the city hall of the 10ᵉ arrondissement of Paris present their new exhibition Irmeli Jung - Visages de Paris et d'ailleurs. Born in Finland in 1947, Irmeli Jung discovered photography at the age of 13. In 1965, she moved to Hanover in Germany and completed her apprenticeship with the photographer Kurt Julius. In January 1968, while she was staying in Paris, a friend…
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…
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Jacques Sonck (1949) is one of those who have shaped 'street photography', and more specifically street portrait. Sonck prefers to blend discreetly into the crowd - and one doesn't expect grand theories or social commitment from him. He is one of Belgium's unsung treasures and certainly deserves wider international attention and recognition. He studied at Narafi, now part of the Luca School of Arts, which gave him an in-depth knowledge…
Quite surprisingly, in these two decades when Dada and surrealism developed, these two movements showed little influence on nude photography, at least those which were selected to be printed and published in albums. Of course, Raoul Ubac and Georges Hugnet mainly, Wols, Erwin Blumenfeld and Dora Maar, shall I cite Man Ray?, produced at this time photographs that were fantastic in every way, even surreal for some (Cf. the excellent…
The Hotel Fontfreyde, Clermont Ferrand Photographic Center presents until June 1st an exhibition by Yan Morvan titled Résistances Mémorielles. He presents it like this. On the razor edge The bus of the "special envoys" of the "international" press went from Teheran to Shatt-el-Arab, the scene of the battle between Iraq and Iran for the possession of the oil terminals. We stoped, at night, on a height overlooking the towns of…
Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents an exhibition by British photographer and filmmaker Alison Jackson. The exhibition 'Truth is Dead' shows sixty humorous portraits of international celebrities and two videos. The artist uses cleverly styled lookalikes and actors to stage simulated paparazzi shots and documentary footage. The famous public figures include members of the British royal family, David and Victoria Beckham, Bill Clinton, Simon Cowell, Elton John,…
Galerie Caroline O’Breen in Amsterdam is presenting ‘Nightcall’, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Satijn Panyigay, who has been photographing temporarily vacant interior spaces extensively over the past years – empty museums, depots, new or repurposed buildings and homes. In her latest project ‘Nightcall’ (2024), she turns her lens to nocturnal exteriors. Captured overnight in the urban environment of Utrecht, the Netherlands, her compositions highlight brief moments of…
For this exhibition of works by American artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery has invited Ghanaian-born British editor Edward Enninful OBE to collaborate with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to present his singular vision of the photographer’s work. In the exhibition, Enninful presents his selection of 46 prints in pairs, forging new dialogues between them and inviting visitors to see even some of Mapplethorpe’s best-known photographs anew. With this…
In this chapter, Jacques Revon explores the use of an ecological alternative developer made with raw, old and artisanal cider at 7°. “Film photography is initially authentic because the negative remains, even if one day it is scanned and therefore becomes digital at the risk, as we know, of being later manipulated.” – JR Sheet 9. Making an alternative developer in a quantity of 1 liter ready to use, with raw, old and…
The in focus gallery, B. Arnold in Cologne, presents Nick Brandt: The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Chapter One was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in 2020, Chapter Two in Bolivia in 2022. The people in the photos have all been badly affected by climate change, from extreme droughts to floods that destroyed their homes…
B, or the Memory of Childhood is an exhibition that combines two of the best-known series by the Franco-Moroccan artist Carolle Benitah : Photo Souvenirs developed from her family and personal archives and the other entitled Jamais je ne t'oublierai constructed from found and anonymous photos. For almost twenty years now, Carolle Benitah's artistic intention has been telling us about the constant search for balance between familial ties hoping happiness…
Love, Lust and Freedom is on display at Kunstmuseum Brandts. From quiet kisses and doing the laundry to hardcore raves. Life as a queer person and the right to love or desire whoever and however you want is addressed in a new photography exhibition at Kunstmuseum Brandts. From the humdrum of the everyday to the experimental and, in some cases, potentially dangerous love life of certain members of the queer…
In their series Photo Spotlight, Holden Luntz Gallery presents the work of Bernie Taupin based on the photographs of Terry O'Neill. Two Sides of the Sixties Terry O’Neill was both a great friend and an inspiration. His personality behind the camera was an infectious and kinetic pantomime of chaotic charm. Terry was a star in his own firmament as much as the icons he photographed over the decades. His images…
Les Douches la Galerie pays tribute to Marvin E. Newman. Marvin E. Newman, who died on September 13, 2023, photographed everything with great joy: from street reporting to advertising or sports commissions, including nightlife and fashion. Les Douches la Galerie, which presented his first personal exhibition in France in 2018, wanted to pay tribute to him, a few months after his death, with this exhibition of photographs taken in color,…
Cédric Roux presents his book Before Rebirth published by Édition Odyssée. He introduces it like this: Before Rebirth began during a month-long photography residency in Wilson, NC in December 2021. Invited by the Eye on Main street festival, I made several stays. Accustomed to capturing the movement and intense life of the streets of New York, the first contact with Wilson was a real shock. In search of a city…
The Porosus endowment fund, the Régnier pour la Création fund and Les femmes s’exposent are launching the new scholarship to support emerging creation. This scholarship will be awarded to an active professional female photographer, with less than 10 years of experience, for the production of artistic or documentary photographic work. The proposed subject could be a new photographic project or the new chapter of an ongoing project that has never…
Willy Cartier : Chameleon. Willy Cartier is a versatile artist, born into a family steeped in art in all its forms. His father, a classical dancer, painter and writer, and his mother, also a dancer, undoubtedly influenced his artistic path. From an early age, he felt different, with his long, eye-catching black hair, sometimes considered too long by some, but ultimately becoming an integral part of his identity. Navigating backstage…