Losing the North Diptychs I was born in northern France, where I lived from childhood until I was 19, in a small working-class town between slag heaps and glassworks. Sixteen years later, when my daughter was born, I returned with my camera to capture the faces of those who had never really known me as I was. My country, my family, our otherness. I look at them today with tenderness,…
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Our beautiful Camargue, a treasure on borrowed time? (Here is an overview of my work with 15 photographs. Full report 60 photographs). "How beautiful is my Camargue". I've said this phrase so many times since my earliest childhood. As a native of the magnificent Gard department, my parents introduced me to it at a very early age. This land of the Petite Camargue is very dear to my heart... I…
Shipyards For a long time, I thought about how I could tackle this subject, which was close to my heart, but which I found so difficult to tackle in a rational and, if possible, original photographic study. In memory of all those thousands of workers involved in shipbuilding for several generations, who had lost their tools of the trade, with the direct consequence of losing their jobs to shipyard workers…
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Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle The doors of Paris Photo, vintage 2022, have just closed. With my accreditation: “press” in hand, I was able to access the so-called VIP day on Wednesday. Incidentally, it should be noted that the “Very Very VIPs” had already been invited the day before by a very great American international bank, which was - this year - the leader of the sponsors for this shining event.…
On the occasion of the Rencontres d'Arles, the Fisheye gallery presents Delphine Diallo's new series, Golden Age, produced in collaboration with WhiteWall. Mixing photographs and collages, the exhibition is an invitation into the universe of this protean artist. The Golden Age series originated with a proposal: the wish of a great lover of African art to create a work from his own collection. Among the 3,000 artifacts that make up…
An icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas is remembered today as a pioneer of beefcake. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until his death in 1974, Bellas photographed some of the most important figures in the world of physical culture; bodybuilders Steve Reeves, Bob McCune, and George Eiferman, and models Joe Dallesandro, Mark Nixon, and Brian Idol are just a few of…
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One of the major highlight of the Photo London program is Valérie Belin recipient of the Master Photography 2024, her solo exhibition “Silent Stories” offers a retrospective of her Berlin work spanning three decades. Throughout her career, Belin has explored the tension between the superficial appearance of things and their true nature. Often using the human body as a vessel for abstraction and projected meaning, she has photographed live models and…
AdeY’s identity is unknown, but the photographs speak for themselves. The art is in the borderland of photography and performance and depicts the naked body in playful formations and in minimalistic rooms and empty landscapes. On May 16, the exhibition Uncensored by AdeY opened at CLAMP in New York and will continue through May 25. This is the final stop in AdeY's Uncensored world tour which has been exhibited in…
Danish artist Susanne Wellm talked to Zoe Isle de Beauchaine about her idiosyncratic practice of weaving photography and her first Parisian exhibition, which runs until July 13 at Galerie XII. How did you come to photography? During my studies in textile design, I was introduced to photography and darkroom techniques for a semester, and it felt like magic. I became completely enamored with photography, a medium that had fascinated me…
Charles Martin‘s solo exhibition ended yesterday, Faces, Figures, Fantasy, at Global Vision Gallery in Brooklyn ended yesterday. This was the inaugural exhibition of Ernani Silva’s new space. Regardless we want to present you the work of Martin, a photographer, filmmaker and writer. Also, Charles Martin was just awarded a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellowship at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University for this Fall,…
Following her critically-acclaimed solo show at Flowers Gallery in London in 2023, Janelle Lynch: Endless Forms Most Beautiful, a new show of works from the same series opens at Exhibition The Barn in Bridgehampton, New York in collaboration with Frampton Co. The exhibition presents cyanotypes and large-format black and white photographs that Lynch created in Amagansett, New York during 2022-2023, exploring the intricate connections between life’s forms and the afterlife. Janelle Lynch utilizes…
The Griffin Museum of Photography presents the exhibition Traces of Existence, featuring photographs by artists Alejandro Cartegena, Muriel Hasbun, Ilena Doble Hernandez, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and Alejandro Morales. The exhibition speaks to ideas of migration, history, reminiscence, family, and existence through experimental photography, such as collage, visual juxtapositions, and physical manipulations. Though distinguished stylistically, the artists' exploration of their identity and homeland unite them conceptually. In her series Pulse: New Cultural…
At Christie’s in New York, a record was set yesterday for André Kertész after a print of his photograph Satiric Dancer (1926) hammered for $450,000, or $567,000 with fees Here are the final numbers from Christie’s two Evening Sales this week: 20th Century Evening Sale Andre Kertesz, $567,000.00 (World Auction Record for the Artist) Edward Weston, $1,071,000.00 (4th highest record for the artist) 21st Century Evening Sale Diane Arbus, $1,197,000…
Phillips presents in London today their sale Photographs & Helmut Newton: Provocateur. The section dedicated to Helmut Newton (lots 121-170) comes from Simon de Pury’s exceptional collection. The noted auctioneer, curator, and collector was a close friend of Newton. And if a lot of the iconic photographs are of course present, a substantial number of much lesser known images and variants of classics give a fresh flavor to the sale.…
An exploration of the best of the past, present and future of the medium, Photo London 2024 brings together over a hundred exhibitors from 44 cities across four continents, showcasing important works from across the globe from the dawn of the medium to today, from May 16 to 19, 2024. Fair Director Kamiar Maleki comments: “Welcome to the ninth edition of Photo London. In its first decade the Fair has…
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) presents a selection from their Karl Struss artist archive, offering unprecedented access to ephemera from all stages of Struss’ career, from his invention of a pioneering soft-focus lens to becoming the paradigmatic cinematographer of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood follows Struss’ artistic evolution from early fine-art photographer to innovative filmmaker. The Carter holds over…
Since the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, Ruben Natal-San Miguel has committed his photographic lens to the resilience of cultural identity and human connection in the dense urban environment of New York City. The exhibition Nature Finds a Way brings together portraits, with a particular focus on the Bronx, showcasing individuals in both real and synthetic nature. Here, tropical murals, artificial plants and floral prints also find a way to…
Frida Orupabo receives the SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie 2025 der Stiftung Niedersachsen. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros, a exhibition of her work at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and a publication. The Norwegian artist receives the prize for her photographic collages, in which she explores questions of identity, race, gender and the sexualised exploitation and objectification of black bodies in a special way. Frida Orupabo creates new narratives…
There are various ways of organising photography archives: alphabetically, thematically, or date of capture. Not so at the Archive of Modern Conflict in Holland Park in London. The 8 million plus images (and there could be many more) are filed according to the date of acquisition, with the archive function- ing almost as a diary, a library of the imagination in the Borgesian sense, or Situationist drifts. Of all the…
The Carré de Baudouin in Paris hosts an astonishing exhibition by Frédéric Stucin. Le Serment d’Opéra is the result of a meeting between Doctor Alberto Velasco psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center of Paris psychiatry & neurosciences and Myriam Mazouzi, director of the Academy of the Paris National Opera. Invited to pass through the doors of the Paris Opera, patients have agreed for two years to take part…
Man Ray (1890-1976) is an essential figure of the 20th century, inseparable from the history of photography, especially in this year 2024, when the surrealist movement celebrates its centenary. In this context, Photo Elysée opens its doors to an exhibition presenting a selection of works from one of the largest private collections, never before shown in Europe. Led by Nathalie Herschdorfer, the museum's director and exhibition curator, the curatorial focus…