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The seventh edition of the LES FEMMES S’EXPOSENT festival opened its doors in Houlgate, in Normandy. The festival is entirely dedicated to professional women photographers (all categories: photojournalism, documentary photography, art photography, etc.). Its aim is to show their growing contribution to the world of photography and media, to make their work visible. Less than a quarter of photographers in major photo agencies are women. They earn less than their…

Les femmes s'exposent has revealed the winner of the new emerging creation grant and the two awards of the 'Les femmes s'exposent' festival. "Inughuit. Guardian of the Ice" by Camille Michel Emerging Creative Scholarship. Porosus Endowment Fund x Régnier Fund for Creation x Les femmes s'exposent. The northernmost indigenous people in the world, residing in northern Greenland, the Inughuit are descendants of the Inuit of Canada. They live mainly from…

As part of its seventh edition, the “Les femmes s’exposent” festival is dedicating an exhibition to breaking until September 1st, 2024, with the images of Sophie Bramly. The photographer followed the hip-hop scene in New York for three years, in the 80s, when it was still emerging and underground. She attended the legendary evenings at the Roxy, one of the first multiracial and multicultural hip-hop dance clubs, a legendary place…

Starting from the etymological translation of Houlgate as a “hollow path”, I wanted to create an autofiction by providing a unique perspective on this maritime town in Normandy. Having grown up in this region, these landscapes remain a strong anchor for me. Through the iconic architecture of Houlgate, the places take a central place within the images. The winter setting with empty tourist spaces, closed shutters and echoing silence are…

A gateway to Mexico and North America, Tapachula is an almost obligatory stopover for the thousands of migrants coming from South and Central America. In recent years, it has become one of the main epicenters of the global migration crisis. Due to restrictive U.S. government policies, which have transformed the Mexican territory into a huge border, migrants must apply for their migration permit in this city before continuing their journey.…

Trained as a graphic designer, I decided in 2016 to devote myself entirely to photography. Today, the more I advance in my artistic practice, the more I approach my projects from a documentary angle, but I think of them from the outset with an aesthetic approach, even plastic if the subject lends itself to it. By mixing these different ways of working on my subject, I go beyond the imposed…

Japan, Hokkaido, 2023. The indigenous Ainu people, after 150 years of forced assimilation, find strength in their quest for identity, recognition and reconciliation. Hokkaido is a vast territory with winter beauty, forests, volcanoes, lakes and wild coasts. Here, the earth breathes. Before Japanese colonization, it was that of the Ainu, hunter-fishermen people with deep animist beliefs and a strong culture. After a century and a half of assimilation and discrimination,…

Stephen Wilson is a photographer based in Northern Ireland. Over the last twenty-five years his photographs have been featured in numerous national and international publications. Covering subjects as diverse as conflicts in the former Soviet Union to drought in sub-Saharan Africa. Stephen then returned home to work in post conflict Northern Ireland covering stories for newspapers and press agencies and finally working freelance. Now as well as lecturing in photography…

“I achieve my goal when I have people finding something strangely beautiful that they would not think so. I guess art is there to open people’s eyes and minds on things that they could not think could be that way.” – Guido Mocafico Hamiltons presents the first exhibition with Guido Mocafico in eight years. The show comprises thirteen large format, unique, pigment prints from Mocafico’s highly acclaimed Serpens series. Guido…

André Frère Éditions presents Blue movie, a book by Nicolas Comment. He is also the author of this text: A singer is gone, a little girl grows up. Society withdraws. Space recedes. The whole world has recoiled. These are the “lost years” and travel permits. The day after Christophe died, Audrey called me: Tomorrow, we are leaving Paris and our cramped apartments. In Saint-Tropez, life itself seems to have ebbed…

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation reveals the winners of its 2024 Environmental Photography Prize. The 2024 Environmental Photographer Prize was awarded to photographer Aaron Gekoski for the image See No Evil (Orangutans exploited by the tourism industry, Thailand, 2023). Aaron Gekoski has traveled the world for more than fifteen years to report on humans' complex relationship with wild animals, covering topics such as the illegal wildlife and pet…

A Gallery For Fine Photography presents 12 beautiful, rockin' silver gelatin prints hand selected by Bob Gruen. Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that…

“Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.” This sentence from Diane Arbus , the Luhring Augustine gallery transformed it in : Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen, Recent Photography, an exhibition of new and recent work by seven artists: William Eric Brown, Sophia Chai, Kevin Landers, Brittany Nelson, Shaun Pierson, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, and Sheida Soleimani. Organized by Lauren Wittels and Sasha Helinski, the…

Created 60 years ago by Jean and André Fage with the assistance of the Department of Essonne and the town of Bièvres, the Musée Français de la Photographie brings together an exceptional collection of materials, images and documentation which deserves to be presented in a larger museum space, to meet the expectations of both a French and international audience. Yes, but currently, the Bièvres Photo Museum is closed to the…

Keith de Lellis Gallery presents the exhibition PaJaMa. Beginning in 1937 and for the next decade and beyond, the artists Paul Cadmus (1904-1999), Jared French (1905- 1988), and Margaret Hoening French (1906-1998) spent their summers by the sea, ending each day by going out— as Cadmus later recalled—“when the light was best” to make photographs of one another with a lightweight handheld Leica camera owned by Margaret. “They were just…