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America For several months I have been travelling around the United States to discover the big cities whose names were familiar to me. However, I did not leave Paris since it was again using Google Street View that I undertook this long journey. Like an invisible tourist, I have walked the streets and alleys of Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and many other cities in search of these fragments of time…

Poetry of Silence I ​Since 2018, Liechtenstein photographer Roland Blum has been travelling to Namiba on a  recurring basis, directing his camera lens from a helicopter at the structures and shapes of the      fascinating Namib Desert in Namibia. On the Atlantic coast, which borders the desert in the west, the cold Benguela current of the Atlantic meets the barren land. Almost every morning, dense fog settles over the desert…

Empty and free Layer by layer we peel off our shells, get naked, tear off our memories with our skin to stay pure and free. The viscosity of the body increases, and you can't feel your frame, only a formless soft and slippery body. It falls into a space without time, fluid, transparent, thin. It envelops your entire being, permeates you. The canvas of reality distorts, you want to remain…

In the 1980s, i.e. in the last century, I was lucky enough to be connected by a video cable to a great cameraman with whom I covered almost all the wars of that fertile decade for an American channel. My role as a VCR carrier, which was often what a sound engineer was in those days, suited me perfectly. Sondier in French. This naughty word made me think of a…

Nature of proximity From the pond of Plessis to the banks of the Loire, I went to discover the small garden animals and the world of flying insects in my commune of Sainte de Sainte Luce Sur Loire. My shots remain above all a search for artistic atmosphere, ephemeral staging in order to make discover to all audiences, the sparkling colors of the small fauna of our immediate vicinity, that…

Verticality It's all about verticality. Our buildings rise towards the sky, our vegetation grows vertically, man stands upright. I wanted to play with almost similar shapes, round for the most part, which all stand up towards the sky, I wanted to play with materials, shadows and lights, juxtapositions, with very contrasting black and white . Nicole Duranceau

Leaving Reality Leaving Reality is a lyrical graphic novel. Each image presents a story that can be interpreted in a multitude of ways. These juxtaposed, surreal images invite viewers to take a closer look and create their own unique narrative. The abstract images in this series are cyanotypes, lumen prints, chemigrams, and hybrid forms created using analogue and digital collage techniques. This body of work is the result of experiments…

The new exhibition Alice Springs. Retrospective opens at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin on 2 June 2023. In celebration of the 100th birthday of June Newton aka Alice Springs, over 200 photographs will be displayed throughout the entire exhibition space of the foundation. While major Alice Springs exhibitions were already hosted at HNF in 2010 and 2016, many of the photographs in this new retrospective have never been seen…

Paul Ickovic passed away. Robert Klein sent us this text, followed by a second one by Elvira Piedra. I was saddened to learn that longtime friend and gallery artist Paul Ickovic died on May 23 in Prague. Paul had been living in Europe these past years and while he was distant geographically we were in touch on a regular basis at all hours of the evenings and early mornings. His…

Doyle Wham presents In Bloom, Morgan Otagburuagu's first solo exhibition worldwide. Otagburuagu (b. 1997, Abia State, Nigeria) is a self-taught photographer who has made major waves in the fashion and art industries with his unique style of portraiture. In this exhibition, a new series, In Bloom, receives its global debut. These works are of monumental significance to the artist, as they represent a move towards rebirth and re-emergence after a…

London Gallery Weekend, the biggest gallery weekend in the world, has announced returns return from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 June 2023. Established in 2021, this third edition of the free public event will bring together the city’s galleries and attract tens of thousands of visitors to engage with art at locations across the city. We present to you four of the exhibiting galleries. Mazzoleni presents Toscani Chez Mazzoleni, the…

Galerie Max Hetzler, London presents an exhibition dedicated to new works by Thomas Struth (b. 1954). This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the London gallery and the first time his renowned photographs taken at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, are shown in the UK. Struth’s renditions of CERN form part of Nature and Politics (2007 -), a group of work that examines how ambition and human…

 Sprüth Magers presents Mirror, an exhibition by Jean-Luc Mylayne. Poetry and existential philosophical questions define Jean-Luc Mylayne’s conceptual photographic practice of over four decades. Capturing birds in their natural habitats, the artist creates formally surprising and carefully calibrated images. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Mirror, a choreographed selection of Mylayne’s works forming a distinctive ensemble thematically revolving around the fragility of our shared ecosystems and the brevity of life…

Foto Wien turns 10 On June 1, Austria’s largest photography festival inaugurated its anniversary edition with a focus on truth and lies in photography. The festival, which is affiliated with the European Month of Photography, is celebrating its tenth anniversary with around three hundred events at 110 venues and 350 artists from twenty-five countries. Foto Arsenal Wien will host Foto Wien for the first time, with its festival base at…

At the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen in Paris, the Académie des Beaux-Arts is exhibiting the first photographic series of Franco-Swiss reporter Bruno Barbey, The Italians. It's a tribute to this pillar of the Magnum photos agency who died in 2020. He is one of the few photographers to have been elected to the Institut de France, where a section dedicated to the eighth art was created in 2006. Bruno Barbey…