Into Their Souls An interpretation of what my “Decisive moment” is through my 52 years of Street Photography Henri Cartier-Bresson talks about what he calls “The Decisive Moment”, he says: “Composition must be one of our constant preoccupations, but at the moment of shooting it can stem only from our intuition, for we are out to capture the fugitive moment, and all the interrelationships involved are on the move.” For…
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The Old Oak Or the Call of Nature Remarkable tree From a small seed, you've become the Master of this land. Several hundred years old year after year, you draw closer to the firmament. As I leaned against your bark, I felt a heartbeat... I heard it shudder.... you are the memory of the past... It is said that you are the "Tree of Doors", that you allow passage between…
Hands Hands from here, hands from elsewhere, hands from yesterday, hands from today, hands loved, hands unknown, hands placed, hands caught in flight, hands like so many portraits both singular and universal.
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Śūnyatā - The Ultimate Void The images displayed here are the first in a series of a personal journey where I search answers to some fundamental questions about life, its meaning and purpose and then later my understanding about nature of ‘Reality’. This quest is taking me to every nook and corner of India meeting sadhus, monks, philosophers, scientists and charlatans alike. Images of this story were shot in different…
I first heard of Laurence Sackman in 1980. I was then an assistant to several fashion photographers in the Clic-Clac Studio, rue Daguerre in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (today Daguerre Studio). This period was relatively brief in my career and I have a rather vague memory of it. However, the name of Laurence Sackman, so often pronounced in this place, still resonates. “Laurence Sackman is here today! » :…
On the occasion of Gallery Weekend 2023, Kicken Berlin will be opening a further installment of the exhibition series Sheroes of Photography, which was successfully initiated in 2021. The neologism shero expresses explicit appreciation of the achievements of women artists in photography. The sheroes of photography unite the self-assured practice of a modern medium with diverse perspectives on reality. Following the opening group show and the individual presentations of the…
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The 23rd Lodz FotoFestiwal will be held until June 23. This year's theme, "Letting Go / Liberation", is explained as follows by the organizers: Fotofestiwal 2024 emerged from the collective need of freeing ourselves from curatorial boundaries. Used to designing each edition around a theme, this year took the idea of letting go, to encounter a loose approach, paired with multiple readings, without full restriction of a word. Thus, the…
Peter Pflügler presents his project Now is not the right time at the Lodz Fotofestiwal 2024. Here is his text ! When I was two years old, my father went into the woods with the intention of never coming back. For almost 20 years, my parents chose silence about his suicidal attempt. And still, I found myself drawn to the place where the incident happened and on its anniversary a…
Michalina Kacperak presents her project Soft Spot at the Lodz Fotofestiwal 2024. Here is her text ! There is a very popular saying in Poland, which I have heard many times in my life in various situations: ‘Fish and children have no voice’. I decided that I would give a say to all the children and the child in me. Our family is devoid of adults, those who grew up…
An unusual approach: 350 author photographs to be discovered at the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire. PODA (La Petite Oeuvre d’Art) (the Small Art Work) is a collection of 350 photographs by authors. Each work is presented in a box which forms the frame. The format of each of the PODAS is the same, 9X12 cm, the price is also always the same, forty-nine euros. These are the specificities of…
For the first time in France, Xan Padron, a Spanish artist based in New York, is exhibiting his Time Lapse series at the Delamour Gallery. His photographic works explore and trace life in cities around the world. The gallery offers among other things the most recent Time Lapse. His father, a journalist, taught him the art of watching and listening with patience. Then at 13, he received his first camera…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle I am always sorry to see, before my eyes, a buyer being tricked by one of our peers without much scruple. The scene becomes totally distressing when the seller (also producer of the image) commits his misdeed in complete innocence. The worst is when the sale is made by an intermediary, also called a professional, who literally defrauds his buyers at risks shared by the author,…
The Galerie Le Réverbère in Lyon will close at the end of the year. Histoire(s) sans fin will be their last collective exhibition, it will open in September. Catherine Dérioz and Jacques Damez sent us this letter: 45 years of commitment as a couple to photography, 43 years of gallery work including 35 years at 38 rue Burdeau in Lyon: an incredible adventure lived intensely with its ups and downs,…
This summer at The Photographers’ Gallery, Graciela Iturbide: Shadowlines celebrates the work and world of Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942, Mexico City). Widely recognised for the poetry and introspection of her work, Iturbide’s captivating black and white images explore themes of Mexican culture, identity and belonging. From the Seri people of the Sonaran desert to the Mexican-American cholo gangs of Los Angeles and Tijuana; the cinematic flatlands of American…
Launched as part of the URBAN Photo Awards, URBAN Photo Arena returns for its second edition. This prize, for photographers under 35, offers the opportunity to discover tomorrow’s talents. Founder of the URBAN Photo Awards, Stefano Ambroset envisions URBAN Photo Arena as a kind of sports competition: "Each week, like in a sports match, the photographs submitted to the contest will face each others, and, the highlight will be that…
A city where photo exhibitions are open-air and accessible to everyone, both residents and visitors for a day. Located in Luxembourg, the City of Images of Clervaux hosts six exhibition venues open year-round. The city already had a photographic heritage: for several decades, it has hosted the exhibition The Family of Man, conceived by the former curator of MoMA, Edward Steichen, a native of the Grand Duchy. The cultural program…
The Galerie Parallax in Aix en Provence is showing an exhibition entitled “Amour de l’antique” by Alfons Alt. It is presented as follow: The works of Alfons Alt take us into two identified coexisting expressions: photography, and what would be in the order of painting. Once the shot has been taken, and its transfer treatment on the canvas carried out, Alfons Alt will apply pigment juices with a brush to…
Deborah Bell Photographs presents Conceptual Matters, an exhibition of photographs depicting artworks by artists of the late 1960s-1970s who pushed the boundaries of visual perception in performance, land art, conceptually-based body art, and photography. The 1960s introduced after Pop Art several non-narrative movements in the plastic arts including Minimalism, color-field painting, and a renewed appreciation of Assemblage. "Happenings" of the late 1950s, and the interest in dance as a form…
My research on alternative developers discussed at the University Institute of Vine and Wine. Before giving you my three index cards/recipes for this week, here are some technical notions collected from Natalia Quijada Morin* Lecturer at the Institut de la Vigne et du Vin in Dijon. First observation. In the different ingredients that I use to design my alternative developers, I only use red wines with a PH between 3.4…
On July 22nd, 2024, La Poste will issue a stamp in the artistic series illustrated with a photographic self-portrait of Sabine Weiss (1924-2021) for the centenary of her birth. The stamp will be sold in preview on Friday July 19 and Saturday July 20. https://www.laposte.fr/
The seventh edition of the LES FEMMES S’EXPOSENT festival opened its doors in Houlgate, in Normandy. The festival is entirely dedicated to professional women photographers (all categories: photojournalism, documentary photography, art photography, etc.). Its aim is to show their growing contribution to the world of photography and media, to make their work visible. Less than a quarter of photographers in major photo agencies are women. They earn less than their…