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The colour of people The colour of people does not exist in itself, it cannot be defined, because it is a mosaic whose tesserae change place and shade every day, every moment, when we meet a new gaze, catch a glimpse of another gesture, become aware of the different rhythm of the step of each of us. In a way, the colour of people resembles the need to define ourselves…

M. The series M. offers an intimate exploration of the body, inviting viewers to witness the often-hidden inner life beneath the surface. The work dissects and reconstructs human complexity, revealing the interwoven dimensions of existence. This deconstruction is not a breaking apart but a re-composition, emphasizing how each part is interconnected and vital to the whole. The series captures the multiplicity and simultaneity of being, portraying the layers of emotion,…

Free-lance Shepherd Anaïs is 28 years old, in 2023, she chooses to become a freelance shepherdess. Far from the archetype of the shepherd, she herself represents this new generation of women, neo-rural, modern and feminine. Anaïs, a young woman from Lyon living in Marseille, finally decides to take the plunge and become a herdsgirl. An idea that she has kept in the back of her mind since she was very young. After her…

par Thierry Maindrault Ten years since our photographic universe lost one of its most illustrious champions. Firstly, Lucien was undoubtedly a very talented photographer, he was part of a tight circle of very great talents. This is not a matter of toadyism, which he would find very inappropriate. But a fact that the future will confirm. As with a large part of his images. Why this statement? First, because his…

The CRAF, the Centro di Ricerca e Archiviazione della Fotografia has just awarded its International Award of Photography for 2024 to Richard Kalvar. With the award comes an exhibition in the Friuli town of Spilimbergo, north of Venice. Richard's will last until January 26, 2025. He sent us his images and text. JJN I never studied photography, I just happened to fall into it. In 1965, I had dropped out…

Through January, A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans presents the exhibition Invented Truth by Josephine Sacabo. The images are accompanied by these few words. This work was inspired by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Gyuébrou, the ethiopian nun and composer whose music touched the very depths of my spirit. The images in this portfolio are visual memories of a walkthrough my life this last year. The photographs are not meant as…

Daniel Cooney Fine Art presents the work of the Boston based photographer Jason Byron Gavann. The exhibition Here lies the heart… consists of 25 black and white and color images created between 1980 and 2006 in Boston, Provincetown and Paris. For over five decades Gavann has documented queer life in Boston and around the world. As a student at UMass Boston in the 1970’s a professor suggested that he “photograph…

His name: Philippe Rameaux. A passion: the Sahara He wants to produce four books on the subject. Aventures photographiques et poétiques au Sahara is a collection of 4 volumes exploring different facets of the Sahara, starting with Algeria and its magnificent and surprising giant dune fields, the Vast Western Erg. He tells us: “Capturing the desert in 3 minutes, or less, per shot is a fascinating challenge. Every moment counts…

For 10 years, I have rubbed elbows with him on the internet and he always surprises me. He, is Pierre Axel Léotard, author and director of Corridor Éléphant editions. In 2013, he thought about ​​an online journal in an associative form intended, ultimately, to publish emerging creation. He brought together a few close friends, Corridor Éléphant was officially born in 2014. He has just redesigned his magazine newsletter and on…

Thibaut de Saint Chamas is a Paris, France-based photographer. He discovered photography just before graduation at Sciences Po Paris and decided there to change course and quit a safe and predictable career for a precarious but creative life. After a stint in Vienna Austria, he joined the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs. Where he acquired a visual and artistic culture and learned the importance of cross-disciplinary inspiration. This present personal…

The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents No Idle View, Albert Watson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery in thirty years. To celebrate the storied legacy of acclaimed photographer Albert Watson, a career that began in Los Angeles in the 1970’s, this retrospective exhibition explores Watson’s rich body of work. The photographs on view showcase his distinctive style that is deeply rooted in cinematic sensibility and brings to life moments of stillness and…

Harry Benson Washington DC: Iconic Photographs for the Nation’s Capital, is the title of the exhibition presented for 6 months by Monumental Sports & Entertainment and Ted and Lynn Leonsis. Located next door to Capital One Arena at 707-709 7th Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, the gallery spans two floors and over 10,000 square feet. The exhibit, which is free and, features over 150 photographs including every president and first…

The Galerie Parallax in Aix-en-Provence organizes with the Galerie Baudoin Lebon an exhibition by Joel-Peter Witkin. As a preface, these few very apt words: Joel-Peter Witkin gives images that could only be provocative a dimension of secular icons, of sacrificial allegories. It is Soutine or Bataille that we must cite to find similarities in the art of sublimating horror. His work is not decadent, it is absolutely desperate and metaphysical.…

Charcoal Press publishes Sealskin, the debut monograph of Jeff Dworsky. Jeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Maine at 16 to become a fisherman. In “Sealskin,” photographs of his life are paced to an old Celtic folktale about a fisherman who discovers a selkie, falls in love, has a family, but must let her go. It is…

Her name: Vera van Dam. She has just published a book entitled Dahlia with Setanta Books. We asked her for a text to illustrate her images. We received this: "Dahlia is a flower. Maybe a car. Definitely a mother. In this project I found a way to reclaim what has been hijacked by the masculine kingdom. Women and cars. Subjects of advertisement, objects of home. By focusing on both their…