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Archive of Dissent marks one of the most extensive displays of Peter Kennard’s work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. Taking over three galleries within the former Whitechapel Library space, the exhibition brings together work from across the artist’s prolific and influential five-decade career, offering an important repository of social and political history while illuminating an artistic practice that has continuously countered and protested the status…

Ilie Mitaru is a photographer and filmmaker in NYC, he sent us his series The Wrangling Russia with this text. In 2011, Russia's largest meat producer, Miratorg, began recruiting American cowboys to help restart a national beef industry that had largely been destroyed during the Soviet era. Our film, Wrangling Russia, follows four of these American cowboys as they attempt to train their Russian counterparts and create new lives for…

The artist Laura Henno is exhibiting her work on migration at the FRAC in Clermont-Ferrand until November 3rd. The exhibition presents her work on the Indian Ocean region and some photos of Calais. She tackles complex subjects with the nuance and distance provided while working over long period of time.   Photographing Marginalized Communities Laura Henno's work focuses on communities on the margins of society. In 2009, she went on…

For Julian Slagman, photography is a family affair. His grandparents always carried a camera with them, "as if it were one of the family." Their relationship was defined by photography. This connection allowed him to perceive the intimate link that exists between the act of seeing and that of love. At the age of seventeen when he decided to embrace this practice himself, he turned his lens on his younger…

Story : Monsters of Spring, Shrovetide Ciril Jazbec is a Slovenian photographer and film director. His work focuses on communities that are confronted by the effects of globalization and the climate crisis. In his long-term projects, he aims to raise awareness about the deterioration of our planet and the increasing impact of the climate crisis. He has seen the rising sea levels in Kiribati, the erosion and melting of permafrost…

Roland Barthes said of “photography [that] it is a certificate of presence […]. What I see was there, in this place which extends between infinity and the subject. It was there, and yet immediately separated. It has been irrefutably present, and yet already deferred... More than any other art, photography offers an immediate presence to the world. But this presence is also of a metaphysical order.” The « Présences »…

Presented at the Musée d’art moderne André Malraux – MuMa in Le Havre , the exhibition « Photographier en Normandie (1840-1890). Un dialogue pionnier entre les arts aims to highlight the decisive role that Normandy played in the beginnings of photography. The exhibition is presented as part of the Festival Normandie Impressionniste 2024, with a book under the direction of Dominique Rouet with Sylvie Aubenas and Benoît Eliot published by In…

For over a year, I have been researching the possibility of developing black and white films in something other than a traditional chemical developer. After many tests and experiments, I found that yes, it is possible! Today I invite you to discover a selection of scanned negatives, and films from various brands, which have been processed using ingredients that have become, through successive research, so-called “alternative” developers. I deliberately chose…

Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs of flowers are well known, and recognizable for their delicate yet erotic beauty. What is less discussed is the role of the specific set of objects often appearing within their carefully constructed compositions. Frequently drawn from the artist’s collection, the vases and bowls found in these still lifes reveal a deep appreciation for design – reflecting the confident eye and regard for classical form exemplified by his…