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Pelican's Blood We follow a girl, early twenties, up a station platform; her blonde hair plaited, ringed by a garland of flowers. She checks her smartphone screen as she walks ahead, her heavy costume: living embroidery, alive with roses. Next to her, a young man in rounded glasses, the contemporary imagination of a 19th c intellectual. Through the ruins of cabins and kiosks, and billboards promising justice and redemption, they’ve…

Caravaggio I felt like a kid in the toy store as I walked into the LACMA Caravaggio show some years ago. The most extensive collection of Caravaggio paintings in America lay before me, and my imagination went wild! The intricate rustic beauty, the chiaroscuro lighting, and the common and dirty people portrayed in Caravaggio’s paintings excited and inspired me to photograph in his style. The unique exposure to six Caravaggio…

The Way Home “The Way Home” is a series of landscape photographs chronicling the history of the Hudson River and its river towns. The Hudson, named “Muh-he-kumne-tuk”, or “the river that flows both ways” by Native Americans, has sustained life for millennia. However, we often overlook the civilizations and ecosystems that thrived there before European colonization. These photographs, created using historical techniques, evoke the feeling of life along the river…

Murano Glass I was born in Venice in 1950, to be more precise in Murano, the famous glass island, but I spent my youth and adolescence abroad. My family was historically working on glass art, but once back to Italy I choose for myself another way although being always attached and fascinated by those artists who were able to shape such a material. In 982 Venice began to work with…

The Gardens of Time “The time we live in settles in our souls like an out-of-time experience.” ~ Andrei Tarkovsky, “Sealed Time” ~ I invoke encounter and expectation, our sensory shadows, our living memory. Desire and wandering on the predictable canvas of motherboards. In the end, it's always a question of daring to live against... isabellefrancaix.com

The Beauty of Ruins A vestige of a long-gone era, the old school in the village of Rivières-Trois-Pistoles is over a hundred years old and stands by a miracle. For years, children have been going to school in the neighboring town. The old lady who lived there for years abandoned it long ago. From time to time, curious visitors stop by. Despite efforts to block access, there’s always someone who…

Metamorphosis “Metamorphosis” is an exploration of the passage from childhood to adolescence, a metamorphosis that evokes the delicate transition from larva to butterfly. Through this intimate work, Matthias Koch documents over a period of nine years this process of change, sometimes difficult, but always marked by hope and the conviction that all will end well. The images bear witness to a universal yet deeply personal experience. Each individual has lived…

“I understood that photography, like any artistic expression, we must look for it deep within ourselves” - Sergio Larrain The Magnum Photos Parisian Gallery presents a selection of more than forty prints by Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain (1931-2012). The exhibition, curated by Agnès Sire, presents the work carried out by Larrain in Valparaiso and on Los Abandonados, abandoned street children. It invites visitors to discover the perspective of a visionary…

Release by Skira of Vincent Perez's latest book: Ombres et Lumières /Light and Shadows. It is presented as follows: Actor Vincent Perez (born in Switzerland in 1964) first studied photography in Vevey before moving on to theater acting in Geneva and then at the CNSAD in Paris. He then became a student of Patrice Chéreau at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers. His passion for photography never left him. Over the years, he…

We knew her as a politician, former minister, she is also a photographer. She: is Muriel Pénicaud. She is exhibiting at Club We Are until December 5th and Skira Editions is devoting a book to her. Here is the text she wrote: Photography is my way of taming the world, sharing my disbelief, putting violence at bay and making wonder blaze. My desire is for each spectator to become the…

The first photographic madness in Paris, 7 others will follow next week. PhotoSaintGermain: 25 days, 34 exhibitions, 8 co-productions, new projects and more than 70 photographers. www.photosaintgermain.com

Our collaborator Zoé Isle de Beauchaine is the curator of the exhibition Années 1930 et modernité : l’âge d’or des revues médicales which highlights the link between the pharmaceutical world and photographic modernity through three publications: Art et Médecine, Mieux Vivre and Diversion. Before the arrival of television and then of social networks, images between the wars circulated mainly in the press and illustrated publications. Periodicals like Vu were the symbol of this…

The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is dedicated to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan since the return of the Taliban to power in August 2021. The Award was awarded to the project of the duo composed of Canadian-Iranian photojournalist Kiana Hayeri and French researcher Mélissa Cornet, who produced their reportage over a period of six months with the support of the Carmignac Foundation. No Woman’s…

The title of the book is: Posthume, photographies post mortem et reliques de l’après vie. It is signed Philippe Baudouin and published by Cernunnos editions. The collection of the artist Hervé Bohnert includes more than a hundred post-mortem photographs from France and the world, as well as funerary objects. It has never been shown or documented before. This book highlights, by showing this collection for the first time, the forgotten…

Galerie Olivier Waltman presents the exhibition Brûlure by artist Linda Tuloup, until November 23, 2024. It was in 2020 that Linda Tuloup began her series "Burn" from her home, from her bedroom to her garden, and from her garden to her bedroom. Inspired by a phrase from Gaston Bachelard, "When you want everything to change, one call on fire", she undertook a series of self-portraits made with her Polaroid. Brûlure,…