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Sortie aux éditions GÒKÈ de Unyọñ Ufọk d’Emily Nkanga. The project began in January 2021 when Nkanga returned home for her father’s burial. After living in the UK for more than seven years, she was struck by the love her father—a beloved patriarch who “changed the generational story” of their family—received from the community. This inspired her to document life in Akwa Ibom. Over nearly two years, Nkanga photographed local…
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I wrote a huge stupidity a few weeks ago: artificial intelligence will be the deadly virus of Photography and that we, The Eye of Photography, would never talk about it. AI is indeed the deadly virus of photography but we must talk about it, especially as it represents a new approach and a drastic change in our world. If AI allows immeasurable progress in various fields, in photography on the…
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Michael Hoppen Gallery presents their latest exhibition (and first in their new space!). The show focuses on Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s seminal series Byker. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a Finnish photographer who has lived and worked in Britain since the 1960s. She was born in Finland in 1948 and came to study film in London in the 1960s, at the polytechnic in Regent Street. Together with some of her peers she founded the Amber…
The Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease) At first glance, this autobiographical project - which I've titled after a Kinks song « The Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease) » - looks like a funny series, but it's actually a serious introspective essay. Ron Padgett, the great American poet (and friend) who has seen some of…
"It is the visual codes and conventions within the frame that interest me most." (K Young) K Young (they/them) is a lens-based artist living and working in London, UK. A graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, K Young works primarily with collage and a process, which they term re-photography. Using appropriated photographic imagery found in second-hand books and magazines, the artist intervenes on the material, instinctively…
Idefactor
48 boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg, 75007, Paris
from February 19th, 2025 to February 19th, 2025
Planches Contact Festival
Les Franciscaines, 145b Av. de la République, 14800 Deauville
from January 28th, 2025 to February 28th, 2025
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Ahead of the international summit organized on the subject in Paris on Monday and Tuesday, the Ministry of Culture supervised two days of meetings at the BNF and the Conciergerie on the weekend of February 8 and 9. On the program: round tables, workshops and exhibitions to better understand what artificial intelligence is and how it will change our lives. An “opportunity”. Here is the key word spoken by the…
Throughout last weekend, a large exhibition on artificial intelligence was held at the Conciergerie in Paris. A range of artists invited to reflect on the subject, producing works at the crossroads of worlds and deeply questioning our relationship with the virtual. “Don’t be afraid of change! » exclaims a voice with robot accents. Just before, teenagers transformed themselves into flower-men, their skin covered with green stems and colorful corollas. Video…
In this round table organized at the BNF, the speakers discussed the major challenges represented by the arrival of artificial intelligence in the cultural field. A revolution whose scale is difficult to perceive, but which already raises many questions and promises to change the world of creation. “I consider that AI is a kind of muse that broadens my inspiration,” confides songwriter Jean-Michel Jarre. Invited to this round table, he…
How is artificial intelligence investing in the field of heritage? Specialists came to discuss about it at the BNF and talk about how AI intervenes in many professions. With her company Iconem, Andréa Louis, software engineer and technical project manager, creates digital duplicates of archaeological sites in danger of extinction. This was the case in Syria and Iraq where jihadists endangered world heritage emblems in the 2010s. Thanks to 3D…
With the advent of new technology in the field of journalism, the question of truth and falsehood has perhaps never been so present. State of media and information in the age of AI. “There is a force of falsehood. We don't like to be contradicted. » warns the famous physicist Étienne Klein, producer of the show “La conversation scientifique” on France Culture. He adds: “There is good and bad critical…
The deployment of artificial intelligence in museum institutions is imminent, if not already effective. Feedback and conversation around this new technology in museum environment. “In India, there are 1,200 museums, but above all there are more than 900 million Internet users,” says Dr Shah Feasal, deputy secretary of the Indian Ministry of Culture. “With conversational AI, we are trying to enrich the visitor’s journey by offering guided tours in all…
With this series of ten episodes of approximately three minutes, Arte has given carte blanche to a visual artist to work directly with AI. Result ? A stroll through the twists and turns of images produced by Midjourney with a dose of humor and philosophy. The artist Jocelyn Collages says he felt “dizzy” the day he realized the power of AI to create images. This is how he contacted his…
Mitch Epstein : America in light and shadow. Mitch Epstein is a major figure in contemporary photography. Through his large-format images and mastery of color, he explores the interplay of landscape, power, and industry, documenting the profound transformations of the American territory. His work oscillates between the personal and the political: Family Business (2003) chronicles the collapse of his family’s business in a declining industrial America, American Power (2009) examines…
Last week we reported on the controversy created by the VII Foundation’s new documentary film, “The Stringer”, challenging the authorship of the iconic photograph “Napalm Girl” (“Terror of War”) photograph. A significant part of the world of Photojournalism comes to the defense of Nick Ut. These defenders led by David Hume Kennerly sent us these documents: the first by James Hornstein, his attorney, the second is the statement by Kim…
Hamiltons Gallery presents From the Roster. An expansive and evolving exhibition, From the Roster features significant works from many of the artists Hamiltons has had the privilege of exhibiting over its long history. Artists such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Sir Don McCullin are presented alongside rare and unique works by Horst P. Horst, Steven Meisel, Sante D’Orazio, Peter Beard, Daidō Moriyama, Andy Warhol and many more.…
The MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie presents Music + Life, the first retrospective of British artist Dennis Morris in France. The exhibition brings together for the first time a vast selection of his photographs capturing his youth in London, as well as his portraits of Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols, which have become emblematic images of pop culture. This exhibition takes us to the heart of the…
Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents 'Between the Sea and the Sky', an exhibition by photographic artist Jimmy Nelson, running from 9 February until 21 September 2025. The exhibition debuts analogue large-format portraits as part of a collection of 65 photographs and two videos, capturing the essence of twenty different Dutch communities in traditional folk costumes. Set against the picturesque backdrops of fishing villages, polder landscapes, and…
Laia Abril, a visual reading of the phenomena of “collective hysteria”. Until May 18, 2025, LE BAL presents On Mass Hysteria, the third part of Laia Abril's long-term work devoted to the history of misogyny. After On Abortion in 2016 and On Rape in 2020, this new chapter offers a visual reading of the different interpretations implemented to try to explain what has long been described as “collective hysteria”. These…
The Dream A predilection for black-and-white photography, with its pared-down compositions, gives these images a magical, almost unreal quality. This vision of ‘Magical Realism’ comes to life in photography: making visible what has become invisible. Feeling the Beautiful in the Simple, ‘DASEIN’ The Ordinary becomes Extraordinary. Photography, a moment for eternity.
Cartography of a Wandering There are journeys we embark upon without ever lifting a foot, distant lands that pull us in long before we reach them. In waiting, they are born in dreams—blazing, elusive—visions of light and salt haunting closed eyelids. But when at last our steps sink into them, the elsewhere becomes fire, a living truth, vaster than anything the imagination could have sketched. Every horizon crossed is a…
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