You must believe in spring This project explores my unreliable narrative as an immigrant, as someone alien to a new territory. My work integrates photography and embroidery, creating unique pieces that deconstruct and reconstruct landscape imagery. I capture photos during car journeys, often with my partner driving. I then digitally manipulate these raw images, employing excessive image correction tools("retouch" and "blend" functions) until they lose their single vanishing point. Once…
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Urban Duality This photographic series captures a silent dialogue between historic architecture and the palpable absence of daily life. The shots, while anchored in the tangibility of spaces, invite reflection that transcends the image fixed on film. The monochrome palette and the choice of black and white exalt the drama of architectural forms and chiaroscuro, highlighting the latent nature of places concealing untold stories. Each frame embodies a delicate balance…
The Morning Light In the study of history of photography it’s easy to see how light is fundamental, in fact photographers of every ages have been able to create atmospheres, communicate sensations and show the movement of surfaces through more or less intense contrasts of lights and shadows. Even in the observation of reality we realize that even most common objects get particular visual aspects thanks to light. I studied…
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The role of photography, according to Giorgio Armani Colours, surrealism, a touch of noir. The exhibition spaces of the Armani / Silos in Milan, host the images by the French photographer Guy Bourdin (Paris 1928-1991). One hundred photographs have been selected by Giorgio Armani and the Guy Bourdin Estate, including both iconic shots and lesser-known images (like his quite fascinating twenty-one black and white photographs). One hundred like the ones…
This was the solo show at Paci contemporary gallery for the modern art fair in Milan, Miart Milano, which took place this weekend. Leslie Krims remains one of the most amazing photographers of the turn of the last century, one of the most provocative too! Photography had a pope at that time: John Szarkowski, the director of the photography department at MoMA. Leslie called him an old arthritic tap dancer. We all…
When he started work as a photographer in the late sixties, Hans Feurer could already look back on a very successful career at an advertising company. He showed talent in inventing the right phrases and finding the perfect pictures to get the best results for his clients. These talents became even more visible when Feurer became a popular fashion photographer. Consequently, he has captured the zeitgeist of each decade in…
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Edwynn Houk Gallery presents Erwin Olaf : Stages, a memorial exhibition of seminal works of art from the multidisciplinary artist’s key series centered on the concept of performance, a recurring theme in the artist’s four-decade career. The exhibition Stages includes Olaf’s 1980s documentation of Amsterdam’s nightlife scenes, meticulously produced series such as Hope (2005) and Grief (2007) that dramatize social norms, and ongoing engagement with dance. These tableaux — whether…
PhotoEspaña, the largest photo festival in Spain, pays tribute to Masahisa Fukase, the Japanese photographer, by presenting the complete Ravens series, after Madrid, in Santander in Cantabria. Born on the island of Hokkaido, in the north of Japan in 1934, Masahisa is the eldest of the Fukase family who managed his own photo studio previously founded by his grandfather. Not very enchanted by the idea of taking over the family…
This is the last exhibition of the Galerie Le Réverbère in Lyon which will close its doors on December 28th. It is accompanied by this text: To end this last year in style in our gallery, we invite you to discover Histoire(s) sans fin ( Endless Story(s)) with a choice of emblematic, rare, iconic or unique works from each of our photographers. Endless because our love of Photography remains intact…
Until November 2, La Nouvelle Chambre Claire presents Entre rêve et cauchemar, an exhibition by Jean-Christophe Clamagirand. It is accompanied by these few sentences. I started photographing around the age of 15 with an old AGFA SILETTE-L camera given to me by my father. After training as a black & white printer at the ECPA ( the film and photography department of the army), during my military Service, I discovered…
The only book to tell the story of the contemporary Black cowboy experience––and the only one to feature photographs––The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America published by George F. Thompson Publishing presents over 100 color and black-and-white images by Ron Tarver that convey the beauty, romance, and visual poetry of this way of life and its rich heritage. Although African-American cowboys have long been a fixture on the American…
Our collaborator Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret publishes a book "Beckett - Extinctions" at the Éditions Douro, Chaumont. Here's how he presents it: Beckett: what happens or the death of words and images This essay expresses the rut which in Beckett springs from the impossibility of retaining anything. The fear of the void, the impossibility of saying and representing becomes the necessary extinguishing of a light until the moment of absolute destitution. Here…
Founded in 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Eiger Foundation is dedicated to promoting photography as a significant art form in Africa and around the world through a range of initiatives including exhibitions, educational programs, cultural exchanges, as well as awards and scholarships. Each year, the foundation awards The Eiger African Photobook of the Year Award to a photographer either from Africa or working in Africa. This 2024 edition of the award was conceived in close collaboration…
Fotografiska Berlin presents Le bal infernal 2008 – 2024, an exhibition by Benita Suchodrev. She introduces it as folllow : In the labyrinth of Berlin club culture, labels and limitations disappear. For over 30 years, this city has been a refuge for those seeking freedom and reinvention. The club scene is more than just an escape; it’s a gateway to a new reality where you can define yourself on your…
Anna Lehmann-Brauns “Stages” is the new book, published by Hartmann Projects and an exhibition at the project room of the Helmut Newton Foundation, through 10 November 2024. Matthias Harder, the director of the Newton Foundation in Berlin, writes in the introduction of the book : Light and shadow, and very soft, improbably lush colors can be found in harmonious balance in Anna Lehmann-Brauns’s photographs. In some, we see found or…
The Robert Koch Gallery presents Divergent Landscapes, a group exhibition until November 1, 2024. Moving beyond traditional portrayals of landscapes, this exhibition explores the psychological terrains we construct and inhabit. Featuring the work of photographers Trent Davis Bailey, Matt Black, Edward Burtynsky, Tamas Dezsö, Chris Dorley-Brown, Steve Fitch, Adam Katseff, Josef Koudelka, Michael Wolf, and others, Divergent Landscapes reflects on the intricate relationship between personal experience and external environments. The…
The third edition of the Yeast International Photo Festival is an opportunity to see, reflect and enjoy photography, food, and the images that tell stories about production and awareness that link food consumption to environmental and social sustainability. Indeed, the claim of the festival, which takes place in Salento, between Matino and Lecce, is “From Planet to Plate”. The focus is on the visual arts as an essential tool for…
Deborah Bell Photographs presents Dag Alveng: Photographs from Telemark, an exhibition of largescale black-and-white photographs the artist made in Norway's scenic Telemark region from 2020-2021. In 2015, the historic Rjukan-Notodden Industrial Heritage Site in Telemark, Norway, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Soon afterward, the Telemark Kunstmuseum commissioned Dag Alveng to create an exhibition and accompanying catalogue of photographs to celebrate the preservation of this important territory. Five…
It is the start of crazy photographic October and November. The 3rd edition of OFFSCREEN is open from October 16 to 20, 2024 at the Grand Garage Haussmann. Its guest of honor is Chantal Akerman. JJN OFFSCREEN 2024 is composed of 28 solo show presentations of international avant-garde, historical and contemporary artists, working with installations and experimental practices around image-based work. Under the supervision of Artistic Director Julien Frydman, OFFSCREEN…
This month, I am re-introducing the artist Scott Barnhill, who has been one of the few well-known male models of the 90s. I ran across Scott´s IG a few weeks ago, after having spotted one of his latest portraits, taken by the iconic photographer couple Inez & Vinoodh. Let him take you back in time and share his personal story, plus an outlook on what's next for him. Nadine…
Our collaborator Jean-Jacques Ader followed the Cadaqués photography festival which has just ended. He brought back these images and this text! JJN Great turnout, in this rather cool month of October, for this eighth edition of the Catalan festival which ritually takes place in the village, relieved of its summer tourists. Around forty photographers and creators are there again and making proposals that are as much documentary as experimental, aesthetic…