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Marseille on oval For several days, Marseille has lived to the rhythm of the oval ball. In the streets of the city center, on the Old Port, all nationalities meet. Happy faces of shared moments. I'm not particularly interested in this sport but I had fun walking among these people, especially men, from Scotland, Italy, New Zealand, Belgium, England... Annie Gava, September 10th, 2023 http://annie.gava.fr/

Extra-vaguances Extra-vaguances is a series of photos that explores the contrast between everyday life and the imaginary, between the real and the virtual, between the moment and the probable future. Each photo, in black and white in warm tones, mixes elements of reality and synthetic image, thus creating surreal, sometimes poetic scenes. The photos show landscapes, streets, individuals on the beach or in town. Each image includes at least one…

I’m walking alone I’m walking alone and yet In the exhausted rhythm of my shoes I feel the red, I feel the pink, I feel the blue Giving me the vision That the earth is just a vast unfolded newspaper Sometimes a photograph goes by… Marlène Delcambre This series is a series of self-portraits AD, photography and retouching: Marlène Delcambre Location: Muralla roja   Marlène Delcambre is a fashion photographer…

Fearsome Beauty Talk about attitude! If there was ever a plant I wish to emulate, it is the maguey. The largest of the agave family, the maguey occupies a special place in the cultural history of Mexico as an ancient source of food, clothing, tools, and the fermented drink, pulque. They are a solitary presence in the sere high desert of Mexico, and now like the rest of us, they…

The Seven of Champagne In the summer of 2019, after a renewed reading of the novels of Chrétien de Troyes, I am undertaking personal research into medieval literature. I discovered a number of authors who, because they belonged to the same period and shared a common territory, reminded me of familiar places in the Champagne region where I grew up. The following autumn, I began a field survey in search…

Totoro Youth is a project in progress, a look at possibilities. In a world confined by paradigms; a society losing its bearings and haunts, there is a youth who, far from wanting to overthrow the system, are building the conditions day after day to escape the suffocation of the Establishment. The BBY’s project aims to show an inventive and creative youth who flees political debate to build a radiant present. Three axes…

Postcards This new project was born by chance, while I was cleaning out my external hard disk. Looking again at these photos taken in September nine years ago on Lake Maggiore, I made this consideration, that if I had had in my hands postcards purchased in Stresa or on Isola Bella, and not digital files, I would certainly have perceived a decidedly different emotion, more immersive, that emotion that can…

Today’s edition is dedicated to Erwin Olaf. The Dutch photographer passed away this past Wednesday at the age of 64. Through the years, we published numerous times his work, you will find today a selection of the features from our archives. His studio carried a statement saying that Olaf recently underwent a lung transplant. “The recovery seemed to be going very well. He suddenly became unwell on Wednesday morning and…

Archives of March 15, 2023 His Majesty the King Willem-Alexander awarded the Medal of Honor for Art and Science of the Order of the House of Orange to photographer Erwin Olaf on March 13, 2023 at Noordeinde Palace. The medal of honor is awarded to persons of exceptional merit in the fields of art and science. The award is also based on a special bond with the Royal Household. Erwin…

Archives of February 17th, 2023 Galerie XII presented the first exhibition of Erwin Olaf on the West Coast. The opening was part of the Art and Soul of Santa Monica  in conjunction with Frieze. Considered as the most important Dutch photographer of his generation, Olaf is celebrated for his bold and sometimes controversial approach. His practice centers around society’s marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, and the LGBTQIA+ community.…

Archives of March 11th, 2022 Hamiltons Gallery presented Im Wald is a new series by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf, and is the first of his series to be photographed purely on location in the beauty of the Bavarian and Austrian Alps. “In The Forest” draws attention to several global issues, including climate change, wanderlust, immigration and the COVID19 pandemic, directly investigating nature’s impact on our lives. Olaf highlights the role of…

Archives of June 11th, 2021 As part of the Biennale ‘Fashion and Style in Photography 2021’, the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow presents an exhibition by Erwin Olaf, one of the world’s most important contemporary photographers. Our museum has exhibited Olaf’s projects at several spring biennales, demonstrating the variety of this artist’s creative ideas and methods. Grandiose artistic projects in the spirit of theatrical productions permeated with the grotesque and irony…

Archives of March 31st, 2021 Edwynn Houk Gallery presents Erwin Olaf New Series: April Fool and In the Forest, opening on April 8. The exhibition will be available online through May 22. A photographer and multimedia artist, Olaf takes as his subject society’s marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community, to explore everything from pressing social and political issues to more meditative aspects of human emotion,…

Archives of October 23, 2014 Erwin Olaf’s works depict the unspoken. His stylized and skilfully quoted visual worlds address taboos, social conflicts, and middle-class narrow-mindedness – themes that he disguises aesthetically in order to unsettle the viewer. Bar Barbette showcases the series Fall (2008), which presents adolescent portraits separated by austerely composed still lifes set in pale gold-coloured interiors of the late 1950s. Posed before curtains and wallpaper reminiscent of…

Archives of March 14, 2013 Last week we covered the Erwin Olaf exhibition in London. Now the same series, Berlin, is on view at the Hasted Kraeutler gallery in New York. The photographs of Erwin Olaf are intriguing for their preciousness, their sense of detail and their strangeness. Olaf has long worked in his studio with a whole team of designers, but for his new series, Berlin, he used the…