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Gay Halloween in the Village New York City Halloween in the 1980s, in the gay district of NYC, in particular the village (Greenwich village) was the center of a vibrant, daring and assertive nightlife. Self-expression and exuberant and extravagant costumes went far beyond simple disguise. It was about pushing the limits of hetero-normative society by celebrating diversity and creativity. Halloween was the perfect opportunity to play with identities, a celebration…

Dacha The village of Laitse, located 40 kilometers from Tallinn, witnessed a surge in summer house ("dacha" in Russian) construction during the 1970s when Estonia was part of the Soviet Union. These dachas were originally built as weekend retreats for Tallinn workers and employees, over time, some of these were rebuilt into permanent living places. I started taking photographs at the old summer house in Laitse in 2014, right after…

Peripheral places - Short Stories I love observing the flow of life in peripheral, sometimes anonymous places, outside large urban centres, places of passage or discrete existences. And I photograph, conscious that I am freezing instants of the present as they are already turning into the past. Looking back at photographs, I often wonder what became of those people with whom I briefly coexisted in a certain place and a…

Brning North I lived in Beijing for more than a decade, but I didn't really know it, and photography became an opportunity for me to explore the metropolis. Exploration means adventure, from a safe place to an unknown field, and such movement is not only in the physical space, but also in the spiritual and emotional evolution. I keep roaming in the city, Capture the connection between people and cities…

The Conference of Birds What began as a bit a diversion has turned into a revelation. Photographing sparrows in flight in the wild has revealed a world of unimagined marvels and complexity. I think of them as bird portraits. They are photographed with natural light and no post-production arranging. The birds appear exactly as they did in the camera viewfinder. The series has expanded to hundreds of images. Each day…

South Of The Humber - Trent Falls to Fitties Beach For the past few months I've been working on a photo documentary based on the south side of the Humber estuary. The images were taken between May and September 2024 and are a mix of landscape and portrait styles with a forensic approach to artefacts (from a private collection) found along the bank. The images form a narrative that combines…

Weak signal When I watch the news on TV here in Tunisia, very often the internet connection is cut or of poor quality. A message appears on the screen "Weak signal"! This weak signal from the internet transmission causes the image to be truncated, pixels appear and disappear partially or entirely and the information is thus truncated in turn. Hence the idea of ​​taking with my phone camera this series…

“In 1997, a man walked through my studio doors in Chicago and changed my career,” says American photographer Sandro Miller. That man was actor John Malkovich. “John has given me the freedom to create and to use my knowledge as a photographer to explore and push boundaries both in stills and motion.” This creative playground is revealed in Malkovich: Then Came John, the latest book to feature Sandro’s “muse.” Yet,…

Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Cogitations They say that I am grumpy, backward-looking, pessimistic and that I understand nothing of the splendors of contemporary images. No hasty generalizations, this is only true for those that come out of nowhere or from a box with a belly full of electronic components. I would be blind to the masterpieces of the new emerging “Leonardos”. I would be impervious to the beneficial miracles of collective…

Paris Photo continues to gain momentum. This year, the return to the Grand Palais allows the fair to double its space compared to previous years. The publishing sector benefits from this expanded area, now beautifully situated on the galleries overlooking the main hall. On exhibition, designed as a pedagogical project, caught our attention. Conceived by the Institut pour la photographie (Lille) in collaboration with Photo Élysée (Lausanne), L is for…

The highlight of the public programme at Paris Photo this year is an exhibition of works by one of the most important and certainly most individual American photographers of the postwar era, Larry Fink (1941 – 2023). Sensual Empathy as it’s titled, is curated by Lucy Sante and presented by MUUS Collection. MUUS Collection acquired the Larry Fink estate earlier in the year and the team is still in the…

This is a first which was inaugurated at the Abattoirs de Toulouse contemporary art museum; the coming together of two major institutions and their photographic collections. A rich and not really known heritage, some two hundred and fifty works drawn equally from each of the collections. They were formed respectively on their own criteria, the Château d’eau embracing all photographic practices and the Abattoirs favoring more experimental or visual images.…

The agro-industrial region of Almería (Andalusia, Spain) is known locally as ‘The Sea of Plastic’ due to the vast network of greenhouses that dominate the landscape. It is an area dedicated to the production of out-of-season vegetables, often exported to northern European countries, including the United Kingdom. Bandia Ribeira’s work focuses on the often-invisible communities of workers who find themselves caught in a system where lax labour law and environmental…

The global surge in demand for avocados has driven drug cartels across Mexico to become heavily involved in the trade. In response, in 2011 a group of women from the community of Cherán (Michoacán state) took a stand against the local cartel and succeeded in establishing a new government based on long-standing Purépecha indigenous principles. For five years, the collective Ritual Inhabitual documented Cherán’s struggle through a blend of documentary…

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Shergold operated a commercial photography studio in Bristol, using glass plate negatives – an unusually antiquated technique popular in the 1910s – to create highly stylised portraits of actors as well as of his local community. In Shergold’s studio, Bristol’s working class residents were styled to appear as Hollywood film stars. Yet little is known of Shergold. After his death, his images largely disappeared…