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Nicola Fioravanti is the winner of the  Prize of the Public for the Tremplin Jeunes Talents at the Planches Contact festival, an initiative dedicated to highlighting the new artistic generation. It is thus presented. His project, Normandy, Colors Only, is based on a simple but powerful idea: color as a universal language, understandable without words. From the iconic beaches of Deauville and Trouville, inspired by the legacy of the Impressionists,…

On February 10, 2025, La Poste will issue a stamp in tribute to Juliette Gréco, who died five years ago. The photo is by Erwin Blumenfeld. Singer, interpreter of the greatest French authors, actress, woman of convictions. For 70 years, she contributed to the influence of French culture throughout the world, as a result, she received all the distinctions of the French Republic. Julie-Amour Rossini, granddaughter of Juliette Gréco, as…

Rosemary McGrotha: She was the absolute fantasy of the 80s. The height of seduction, femininity, sensuality. Denis Piel devotes a book to her Rosemary: The Unrecognized Superstar. Rosemary was an extraordinary exception in the world of fashion photography. Her unmatched ability to collaborate seamlessly with every creative visionary she worked with set her apart, and she consistently elevated every shoot she participated in. Her repertoire includes collaborations with some of…

The Hulett Collection, in collaboration with FAS44 Gallery and Michael Frey, presents a pop-up exhibition of Dutch artist Pieter Henket titled Congo Tales at the Marshall Gallery in Santa Monica from February 4 to 8. Congo Tales was created deep in the Congolese rainforest working with the people of the Mbomo District that reside there, to tell the stories, myths, and fables passed down from generation to generation.   Pieter…

Annie Leibovitz is launching a new photography prize in collaboration with philanthropist and photographer Lisa Saltzman. The Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize will award $20,000 to the shortlisted photographers, championing emerging photographic talent and celebrating the power of visual storytelling. The prize will award $10,000 to the first-place winner, $5,000 for second place, and $2,000, $1,500, $1,000, and $500 to the third through sixth-place winners, respectively. Lisa Saltzman, a multi-award-winning New York-based photographer, film producer, and…

There are happy connections. What better place than the Musée de la Photographie « Charles Nègre » in Nice to exhibit some photographs judiciously taken from the works of Vivian Maier. The understanding of images, we will discover, is perfect between these two great discoverers of photography to freeze time, space and the invisibility of emotion and intelligence. It is in this beautiful Nice setting, dedicated to photography, that the exhibition…

It therefore took me a little more than two years of research and testing to be able to design a complete black and white development chain for paper emulsions, a developer, a stop bath and a fixative. For films, I am still studying the more delicate fixing operation, with an alternative fixative with onion and chives juice. During these two years, I made numerous successive adjustments. First of all, I…

The Griffin Museum presents an evening artist talk with visual artist, author, and activist, Michael James O’Brien. Mr. O’Brien will guide us through his journey into photography, share his projects In Borrowed Light and Girlfriend and talk about the meanings behind the works, as well as, new projects in this online event. In addition, Michael will reflect on his mentors like Walker Evans, and Diane Arbus, and his career in…

Published by Skira Paris, this book shows the most recent photographs by Mexican artist Adrian Burns, in which he invites us to go beyond appearances to discover a symbolic world hidden in the mysteries of nature. His “pareidolic” eye reveals the organic curve of a snow-covered valley, the geometric fragmentation of ice and waves, or even the physiognomy of a face. By reworking his graphite or acrylic prints, he emphasizes…

Jackson Fine Art announced the premiere of previously unreleased photographs from Sally Mann’s series At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women, a collective portrait of twelve-year-olds on the verge of adulthood. The artist is renowned for her evocative work exploring themes of family, identity, and the American South. The portraits in this exhibition were taken by Mann between 1983-1985 with her large format camera in Rockbridge County, Virginia, the artist’s birthplace…

Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs presents Artists’ Studies: Photographs Made for Painters by Vallou de Villeneuve and Others. The exhibition includes works by Julien Vallou de Villeneuve, Félix-Jacques Antoine Moulin, Bruno Braquehais, Sydney Richard Percy, Gustave Le Gray, and others. A number of important works by Vallou are featured, including a standing nude Courbet used as the source for his muse in “L’Atelier du Peintre” in the Musée d’Orsay.…

The Italian Cultural Institute is presenting an exhibition by Patrizia Mussa, Théâtralités, later in March Galerie XII Paris will present another, Architecture de l’imaginaire. Gabriel Bauret sends us this text. The Floating Eye The feeling we experience when we enter a theater or opera hall guides the work that Patrizia Mussa has been carrying out for several years now on the interiors of Italian buildings, from Turin to Venice, and…

The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth presents the exhibition Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) by Cara Romero. It is presented as follows. The Chemehuevi word panûpünüwügai, which translates to “living light,” has multiple meanings: the spirit of light; the way light interacts with people; and how both light and people are enlivened through these interactions. We see its rich implications in the art of Cara Romero, who both paints with light in…

Château Coquelle in Dunkirk presents until April 5 an exhibition by Thierry Girard entitled: Places of affect [landscapes, people, lives]. He sent us this text. As a young photographer, I carried out photographic work around Dunkirk between February and June 1982. It was my first artist residency and my first published book, Far-Westhoek; the Westhoek being precisely this western point which forms the border between France, Belgium and the North…

The Galerie Magnum Photos presents the second part of an exhibition on the work of Ernest Cole, divided into three parts exhibited in turn in the United Kingdom, Europe and South Africa. In collaboration with the Goodman Gallery and the Ernest Cole Family Trust, this exhibition presents rare vintage prints that demonstrate the incredible richness of Cole's work during his short career. This exhibition offers different perspectives on South Africa…