Thierry Maindrault’s Monthly Cogitations The years go by and are similar. The years go by but are not similar. Everyone projects themselves, according to their temperament, into the future differently. And then, there are those with terrible consensus, often the sympathizers of one or the other option, who will find the comfortable mediocrity of a little water in a little wine. Thus, the best ideas, the promising creations get bogged…
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When I received this email from Maté Bartha, I didn't understand anything. This is one of the most enigmatic book presentations we have received. The title of the book is Anima Mundi published by The Eriskay Connection. I'd like to attract your attention to my photobook titled Anima Mundi, published just recently and presented at Paris Photo. The material has been developed conceptually together with Emese Mucsi, curator of the…
Very beautiful and unusual presentation of the current exhibition at the Bigaignon gallery. The group exhibition entitled "What if it was all just a mirage?", which runs until February 1, 2025, invites us to rethink our relationship with photography. It brings together the works of ten international artists who navigate between visible and invisible, reality and fiction, past and future and are distinguished by a diversity of artistic approaches around…
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Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, will present works by Melissa Shook (b. 1939 - d. 2020) who began a personal documentary upon her daughter’s birth in 1965. The “Krissy” series continued for 18 years until her daughter's high school graduation. While other photographers/artists at that time used a camera to question their own identities, Shook committed to her first “Daily Self-Portraits” for one year from 1972 to 1973 and repeated…
Starting March 19, 2022, CAMERA WORK Gallery presents the exhibition “Witnessing History”, dedicated to the significant history of photojournalism with 40 impressive works by over 20 world-famous photographers. On display and contextualized are visual documents from nearly 80 years of world events which have made history and become an integral part of the collective memory. These icons come from the renowned collection of CAMERA WORK AG or are works of…
LE BAL presents the first exhibition in France dedicated to the Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska, noticed at the last Venice Biennale and winner of the Lewis Baltz Research Fund (2018) initiated by LE BAL. For the past ten years, she has been developing a visual universe at the crossroads of photography and performance, which examines the complex and ambiguous relationships within the family circle. Joanna Piotrowska in conversation (fragments)…
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Sharon Eilon is an Israeli-based photographer specializing in documentary photography, street photography, and photojournalism. Her journey into photography began after a health crisis that led her to seek treatment in India. This transformative experience not only restored her health but also shifted her perspective on life. The phrase "appreciating life" became a genuine motivation for her to pursue her passions, with photography emerging as her greatest love. Intrigued by the…
Until March 8, Le Carré de Baudouin presents an exhibition of landscapes by Kate Barry entitled Interstices. It is accompanied by this text: Everything would have led the photographer Kate Barry to the light, to the glitter, to the easy way out. Within an advantageous family context, she “made” her reputation with prestigious models (stars of the French variety, actresses, famous models). At the beginning of the 2000s, Kate Barry…
Yancey Richardson starts the year with an exhibition by John Divola titled The Ghost in the Machine. Over the course of a career spanning five decades, California-based artist John Divola has redefined the possibilities of the photographic medium, blending its observational precision with expressive experimentation. Challenging traditional notions of photography’s role as merely a transparent document of reality, Divola’s work explores the intersections of photography with painting, performance, installation, and,…
Release by Kerber Verlag of Scenes from an island by Florence Montmare. This collection of photographs and texts was created between 2014 and 2024, during various stays at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on the Swedish island of Fårö. Divided into three acts, Montmare’s series examines the vulnerability of humankind and nature, as reflected in the climate crisis and global conflicts. Set against the dramatic island landscape, which already served Bergman…
The DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague presents an exhibition of Orhan Pamuk titled The Consolation of Objects. While the literary oeuvre of the Turkish writer and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk has long been appreciated worldwide, his artistic work has so far remained largely unknown. The exhibition Consolation of Objects for the first time offers insight into Pamuk's visual, conceptual, and photographic work, which attests to his lifelong passionate…
You have until Saturday to see the exhibition Sons of the Living by Bryan Schutmaat at the Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica. Photographed over the course of a decade in the American West’s arid and sweeping terrain, this work depicts a human capacity for endurance. Schutmaat offers an updated view of the “openroad” that addresses a new era of uncertainty and anxiety. Amidst a backdrop of environmental decline, economic dispossession,…
The call for entries for the 2025 edition of the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac Photography Award, is open until March 17, 2025. Since its launch in 2008, the Photography Award has supported contemporary photographic creation. Each year, the museum finances the work of three laureates, selected on the basis of an original project in keeping with their artistic career. It also pays for the final production of…
The most important retrospective of the famous American photographer ever shown in Spain is on view until May 1, 2025. Located on this tip of Galicia, A Coruña, a port city well known to sailors for being an important meteorological landmark, the Marta Ortega Pérez Foundation, open since 2022, does not do things by halves. After Peter Lindberg, Steven Meisel and Helmut Newton in 2023, the fourth edition presents Irving…
Roberto Muffoletto, the director of VASA, sent us this portfolio by Fran Forman entitled Midnight Sun. It is accompanied by these few words. In her body of work “Midnight Sun” American photographer Fran Forman recreates a painterly world of mystery and fantasy to release and lose herself into her own creative universe. The images traverse through an unknown world, where the characters of her story as well as the viewers…
An immersion in Ecuadorian biodiversity is being held until March 15, 2025 at the Moulin des Baronnies in Sarlabous. Organized by the Arc-en-Ciel Foundation, this exhibition presents the photographs of Edison Morocho, an Ecuadorian photographer passionate about preserving ecosystems. His photographs reveal the richness of Ecuadorian cloud forests, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. The photos, taken in the Mayu Guajalito protected reserve, tell the story of…
This is the most unusual exhibition of the month. A series of drawings born from a photograph. An exhibition by Farhad Ostovani that Annie Boulat particularly wanted to present in her gallery DUREV Events and that she describes as follows: At first glance, it is just a banal black and white photo of two women in a room, who seem strangers to each other. One is standing at the back…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. This is a selection of their portfolio : Best Covers FW24 The Agents Club, founded in 2018 by Alexandre and Wanda Orlowski, is a unique mobile platform showcasing the most sought-after photography agencies worldwide and the exceptional image-makers they represent. This feature was first published by The Agents Club. www.theagentsclub.com
The book is called Dialogues. It is published by Action Motion. It is signed Clover Green. It is presented as follows: Clover Green’s latest project explores the dialogue between images, art, and memory. By pairing photographs taken over the last three years, Clover creates an intuitive narrative that reveals relationships between the images. Using the diptych technique, Dialogues invites viewers to reflect on the beauty of the world as it…
This January, you can read or read again two magazines in particular: Issue 39 and the Special Holiday issue of Open Eye. All the other published issues are also available on the website www.openeyelemagazine.fr in the ‘back issues’ section. You can also find an artist you like in the ‘list of published authors’ section. www.openeyelemagazine.fr
The exhibition is called Naturae. Twelve photographers: Emmanuelle Bousquet – André Carrara – Floriane de Lassée – Erwan de Rengervé – Jan Gulfoss – Iris Hutegger – Gilles Lorin – Isabel Muñoz – Gilles Pernet – Ludovic Sarmento – Nicolas Seurot – Gilles Tapie – Laetitia Villehuchet present their views on the worlds of landscape, still life and nudes. Naturae until February 23, 2025 Galerie Daltra 20 Rue du Clos…