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Today's edition is dedicated to one of the most important photojournalists of our time. For almost six decades, Stephen Shames has documented the world as an award-winning photojournalist. Through his photography, he uncovers the raw emotions and deeper truths behind both global, political issues and private, personal ones. From chronicling the Black Panther movement in Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers, to exposing the silent crisis…

From the essay by Jeffrey Henson Scales: This book is not a survey nor is it structured with a narrative arc. It is more a collage of Shames’ life as a photographer, a mashup of his life’s work. Documentary photography by its very nature is constructed of people, places, and things the artist finds in their camera’s viewfinder. Like the many artists throughout the history of modern art who have…

What is interesting to me is not someone’s starting point but their journey. My journey as a photographer started during the 1960s when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. I became an artist of the struggle. I got to know the leaders of the anti-Vietnam War and the Black Power movements, including Bobby Seale, cofounder of the Black Panthers, who became a mentor. Seale and…

Pursuing the Dream is a series of photographs about community people helping their neighbors. These 30 community programs help parents do a better job by teaching them skills, providing support, and involving the whole community in raising children. The things these programs do form a coherent family policy--what we ought to be doing to help children reach their potential. Pursuing the Dream uses photographs as “icons for change and hope”…

I have been a photographer for more than five decades. I have traversed five continents, witnessing tragedy and triumph. Although I photographed many diverse subjects and pictured people from countless cultures, there is a thread connecting my pictures. Much of my photography is about children in distress with a focus on identity and family: what tears us apart and binds us together—violence and abuse, but also sensuality, love, hope, and…

The great thing about being a photojournalist is your camera is a ticket to go anywhere. Whether photographing the mundane or the dangerous, I try to convey pure emotion in my pictures, to get behind the scenes, to find a different angle so my pictures reveal what is beneath the surface. Having a distinct vision allows a photographer to be more poetic. While my work fits into the documentary tradition,…

During my career, I was able to get a glimpse into many innovative minds. I was honored to spend a week with Stephen Hawking who suffered from a progressive, ultimatly fatal disease called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. What makes this man incredible is, despite being completely paralyzed, he led an amazingly full life. He traveled abroad, pondered the universe, and enjoyed a warm social life with his wife and…

Photographing is an intense occupation. To get good photographs you must insert yourself into other people’s lives. To do that you need to earn their trust and form a deep relationship with them. My friend, photographer Lydia Panas, says she ends up “in love” with the people she photographs. I feel the same way. I am passionate about the people and scenes I photograph. I do not think my pictures,…

Hello, Spring is on its way to summer. A plethora of global photography festivals and exceptional exhibitions. That's why we're offering this opportunity to new subscribers: An annual subscription at the reduced price of 59 euros the first year with the code below: EYESPRING25 to use at  https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/membership-account/membership-levels/ (Annual subscribtion) Please note: you only have until April 8th to take advantage of this offer. The world of photography is changing…

A new book by photographer Danny Lyon explores the beauty of once-beloved, now-decaying cars found in junkyards across America. A work of pure visual photography, Junk: America in Ruins – published by Damiani Books - features images of more than 80 American cars, mostly from the 1950s and 1960s, that Lyon discovered in forgotten junkyards on travels through Nebraska, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma. Lyon is one of the…

The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest is presenting a group exhibition celebrating photographic practices in Eastern Europe. Organized in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this project brings together ten photographic artists and two collectives to explore the many facets of Eastern European identity. Interview with Wiktoria Michałkiewicz and Emese Mucsi curators of the exhibition.…

Evelyn Bencicova is exhibiting in two Berlin galleries for Photography Month : Jaeger Art and Reinbeckhallen. Evelyn Bencicova (*1992) is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of photography, video, and virtual reality. Her meticulously composed works explore themes of identity, memory, and the complex relationship between the individual and society. Through a distinctive aesthetic—marked by cool, muted tones—she creates a sense of distance and artificiality, reinforcing the themes of…

EMOP Belin 2025 presents Die Blaue Brücke. Encounters above and below the Manhattan Bridge, an exhibition of 21 images by street and documentary photographer Francesca Magnani. For over 25 years Magnani walks around city neighborhoods and progressively learns to see how people wear their feelings and expressions, at the same time exploring and deciphering her own. She walks every day – in parks, on the subways, across the bridges. With…

The Musée d'Orsay is exhibiting a rare album of photographs taken by Louis Robert Cuvier in 1866 and 1867, a valuable record of the extreme worksite that was the construction of the Suez Canal. This collection offers a good example of how photography, the quintessential medium of the industrial age, was very early used to address technological, financial, commercial, and diplomatic issues. Carried out between 1859 and 1869 under the…

Pierre Antoine's L’État des choses has been published by LOCO. It is presented as follows: Pierre Antoine's work revolves around the rather simple idea that the world has something to teach him, and that this is conveyed through images. Thus, the photographic collection in this book was assembled to reflect a desire to penetrate the depths of the world, its materiality, through the signs and phenomena it produces. By considering…