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“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…

Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents a retrospective exhibition of the American documentary photographer Joseph Rodriguez until February 2, 2025. The exhibition 'We're all People' shows 75 photos of mostly marginalized groups of people and their struggles in everyday life. The images were taken in the 80s and 90s, mainly in New York City and Los Angeles. As a taxi driver from 1977 to 1987, Rodriguez captured…

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2024 is an important year for Paris Photo, which returns to the Grand Palais after a long period of renovations. L'Œil de la Photographie interviewed Florence Bourgeois, who has been its director for ten years.   This edition marks the eagerly awaited return of Paris Photo to the Grand Palais. Indeed, there is great excitement surrounding our return to this historic and majestic setting, as we will have 21,000 square…

This year, Paris Photo is launching the Voices sector, which highlights a selection of artists or galleries through the perspective of a guest curator. Three curators have been invited to design a proposal based on a theme of their choice: Elena Navarro, founder of FotoMexico, has created a project focused on Latin American photography; Azu Nwagbogu, founder and president of the Lagos Photo Festival, explores how artists reclaim archives; while…

Each year, Paris Photo highlights the emerging scene through a dedicated sector that embodies the vitality of the photographic field. For this edition, the return of the fair to the Grand Palais provides more space for it. L’Œil de la Photographie met with Anna Planas, the artistic director of the fair and the designer of the Emergence sector.   What is the main focus of the Emergence sector this year?…

Every year, with support from the Ministry of Culture and Kering, the ELLES x Paris Photo program highlights women's contributions to the fair. When it began six years ago, only 20% of the artists of the fair were women. This year, that number has risen to 38%, underscoring the importance of such initiatives. L’Œil de la Photographie spoke with Raphaëlle Stopin, the curator of this year’s program and the director…

It seemed natural: young photographers and friends from Hors Format formed a collective right after finishing their photojournalism training in 2020. Now scattered across France and even the world, four of the seven members still share an unchanged desire to create, connect, and work under the same family name.   How did the collective begin? Camille Nivollet: We met during the photojournalism program at EMI-CFD. In May 2020, at the…