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The summer season at The Courtauld Gallery in London has opened with Youth, a major exhibition of photographs by the acclaimed post-war photographer, Roger Mayne. The first-ever photography exhibition at The Courtauld, reassesses the importance of Roger Mayne (1929-2014), through the lens of his evocative black and white images of young people. The exhibition brings together the works of the 1950s and early 1960s for which he is famous, alongside…

It is in Busan in South Korea that we find a space that is one of a kind, entirely dedicated to the life and work of Ralph Gibson. This sanctuary of photographic art, named Gibson Ι GoEun Museum of Photography, opened its doors in 2022 to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Korean Photographic Foundation. More than 1,000 photographs and personal objects of the American master are preserved and exhibited…

Jean-Baptiste Gauvin will keep a visual diary of the Rencontres d’Arles for The Eye of Photography.

Monday morning, an unforgettable event upon my arrival in Arles, for the first day of the prestigious professional week of the Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles. Coming out onto the Rue de la République, directly onto the Museon Arlaten, superbly restored by the department, surprise, surprise! A picket line, two corrugated cardboard panels, an empty entrance: the museum is on strike. The day is well chosen, it is the day of the…

More than seventy large-format photographs from thirty countries (which Mario Testino has visited over the last seven years): this is how A Beautiful World takes shape. A world that Testino has captured and analysed by taking his subjects out of their environment and bringing them to his portable studio from where their membership in a community becomes evident thanks to the clothes they wear, those of their own history. Testino's…

A project of the VII Foundation, MONUMENTAL is an exhibition that encourages dialogue on faith, national identity, power in politics, social cohesion, colonization, division and political violence through the symbolism of two emblematic religious buildings: Notre-Dame de Paris and The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. Tomas van Houtryve and Ziyah Gafić, collaborating photographers at the VII Foundation, benefited from unprecedented access to these two religious structures between 2019 and…

"A photo must be paid for," the ADAGP reminds us with this striking communication campaign, which for the third consecutive year highlights the lack of recognition for the works of photographers. "We already pay you for the print version, we’re not going to pay you again for the web!" "No, this isn’t paid, but it will give you great visibility!" "It's just a small edit, you’re not going to charge…

After carrying out development tests in cocoa powder, with astonishing results, I said to myself that we had to continue investigating in this area. So I decided this time to test chicory sold like cocoa powder. First observation, chicory dissolves a little more quickly than cocoa. For these tests, I started by developing a 6X6 format film.   Manufacture of alternative developer with chicory. 700 ml of demineralized water to…

Pascal Maitre : Stories in Images Pascal Maitre is a distinguished photojournalist known for his profound and evocative imagery that captures the essence of human experience across the globe. With a career spanning over four decades, Maitre's work has taken him to some of the most remote and tumultuous regions of the world, from the deserts of the Sahel to the bustling streets of Kinshasa. His keen eye for detail and…