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His name: Jean-Claude Deutsch. He is one of the photographers who made Paris Match during 40 years. His son Ilan has just dedicated a book to him: La Belle Époque, dans l’intimité des stars. It is presented as folllow. JJN Far from the spotlight, with touching sincerity, his portraits, more than simple aesthetic compositions, are imbued with emotion and humanity, revealing the privileged relationship that he was able to establish…

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University presents Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Tranquility of Communion until January 5, 2025, the first North American survey of the late Nigerian British photographer’s work and archives. Beginning in the early 1980s, Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989) developed a photographic practice that refused categorization, cutting across cultural codes, gender norms, and artistic traditions. His work reveals a world of heightened sensuality informed by Yoruba…

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University presents Ming Smith: Wind Chime. This solo exhibition pairs recent work by the Columbus-raised artist, the first Black woman photographer to be added to the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, with the series that started her career. Significantly, Ming Smith: Wind Chime coincides with three additional presentations of Smith’s work across central Ohio, at the Columbus Museum of…

Release by Tony Cederteg's Libraryman editions of Christer Strömholm's book, Unseen : USA. Particularly known for his depictions of transgender women in 1950s Paris, as well as his co-founding of Fotoskolan (Stockholm School of Photography), where he served as principal between 1962 and 1972, Christer Strömholm (b. 1918, d. 2002, Swedish) carried out a number of photographic journeys during the first half of the 1960s; many of which images have…

Debi Cornwall: Model Citizens considers the United States as a case study of a global phenomenon: How have staging, performance, and roleplay come to inform thinking about citizenship in a violent land whose people no longer agree on what is true? The last in a trilogy of books on the American condition, Model Citizens includes photographs from US Border Patrol Academy training scenarios, “Save America” rallies, and history museums. Jarringly…

For decades, photographer Kate Sterlin has made an artistic practice of examining the boundaries between individual, family, and community. In her first book, Still Life: Photographs & Love Stories, she uses intimacy in all its forms to tell a story of life, death, family, and race in America. Pairing lyrical photography with poetic writings, Still Life is a dreamlike narrative examining kinship and romance, friendships and tragedies, the complexities of…

“Fame is a curse that all men wish they were victim of.” The introductory sentence of the email amused us. Here are the accompanying images. They are by Romain Berger. JJN Through my photographs, I explore themes linked to the quest for success, the cult of social networks, superficiality and the standardization of behavior. Everything is underlined by a central element of my project: the progressive DISAPPEARANCE of color, once…

Michael Najjar : Space Exploration Artist, explorer, and future astronaut Michael Najjar’s work merges art, science, and technology, addressing the challenges and transformations of our time. His art spans photography, video, digital image-making, and sculpture, often exploring themes like space exploration, AI, climate change, biogenetics, and the impact of technology on humanity. His visually compelling and conceptually profound creations challenge viewers to reflect on the interplay between reality and simulation.…

Release by Atelier EXB of the title Horses by Jane Evelyn Atwood, which presents a little-known part of the photographer's work: her passion for horses. She presents it as follows: Since I was very young, it has always been a love story between horses and me. When we lived in Tennessee, it didn't cost anything to ride horses and that's where I learned to ride. Much later, I started show…

In Gien, the castle overlooks the roofs of the city and dominate the Loire which flows, to the rhythm of the seasons, more or less lazily. A soothing gentleness is required since automobile transits are asked to cross the river outside the walls of the city and its venerable bridge. For once it is possible to approach an exhibition with a liberated and relaxed mind, without having to rush out…

In Berlin's Mitte district, the Chaussee 36 gallery presents the first solo exhibition in Germany by the mysterious Swedish-British artist AdeY. Conceived as a nod to Instagram and its rigid censorship of nudity, Uncensored questions our relationship to the body and human relationships through a dialogue between photography and dance. AdeY is a plural artist: choreographer, dancer, photographer… His artistic practice explores in a transversal way the themes of identity…

Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) has received a gift of 238 works. A gift of David and Gail Mixer, the collection focuses on artists—whether self-portraits or portraits of other artists. Thirty-five of these works will be on view at the Museum through March 23 in a new show titled Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900. Since the advent of photography in the 1840s, artists have…

Her name is Jessica Forde. She sent us these images and this text which touched us: so here they are! JJN One day, not long ago, I settled on the Puig Petit. The small mountain borders the village of Coustouges (Costoja) located at an altitude of 827 meters in the Haut Vallespir and is part of the Eastern Pyrenees in the very south of France. It is less than 1…

Terra Femina Deep inside of me, I have always had this land, these places that make our path of life. This land, the land of the women, those who are the guardian of our humanity, those who are our past and our future, our roots and our dreams. Mother-Earth, fecund earth, fertile earth, the one that bears the world Flowers show up in my work to tell life from conception…

The Weight of light The Weight of Light project arose from my pressing need to shield myself from light, seen here as a metaphor for the high expectations I once placed on the land where I live (Salento, in southern Italy). Such expectations, often unmet, left me deeply disappointed, eventually driving me to leave my birthplace. I ended up moving to London for a while, and upon my return, I…