Losing the North Diptychs I was born in northern France, where I lived from childhood until I was 19, in a small working-class town between slag heaps and glassworks. Sixteen years later, when my daughter was born, I returned with my camera to capture the faces of those who had never really known me as I was. My country, my family, our otherness. I look at them today with tenderness,…
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Our beautiful Camargue, a treasure on borrowed time? (Here is an overview of my work with 15 photographs. Full report 60 photographs). "How beautiful is my Camargue". I've said this phrase so many times since my earliest childhood. As a native of the magnificent Gard department, my parents introduced me to it at a very early age. This land of the Petite Camargue is very dear to my heart... I…
Shipyards For a long time, I thought about how I could tackle this subject, which was close to my heart, but which I found so difficult to tackle in a rational and, if possible, original photographic study. In memory of all those thousands of workers involved in shipbuilding for several generations, who had lost their tools of the trade, with the direct consequence of losing their jobs to shipyard workers…
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Bildhalle Zurich announces the new publication of the book Hell On Wheels - New York Subway 1977-1984 (Edition Bildhalle) and the exhibition of the same name. The photo book as well as the exhibition show not only the iconic images from the legendary series, but also photographs that have never been published before. Bill Shapiro, former editor-in-chief of LIFE magazine, wrote the introduction. “In May of 1977, a 30-year-old Swiss…
Quatre Instants de Nudité / Four Moments of Nudity I have been taking photos with models, mainly female, for a very long time. Why only photos of women? Surely because women are a great source of inspiration for me. Certainly also, for this book, I wanted to idealize everything that makes their differences, their beauty, their sweetness, their emotions, their power of seduction. I also appreciate this exchange, this trust, even this complicity…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. In her experimental fashion and fine art photography, Elizaveta Porodina, based in Germany, travels through time and space, extracting the underlying emotions in her entrancing images. Growing up in post-Soviet Russia, Elizaveta's early years were impacted by the brutalist buildings in Moscow and her mother who introduced art to…
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Until June 30, the Galerie 127 in Marrakech is exhibiting Sandrine Rousseau. The gallery thus presents the series entitled: Le Palais Intérieur, El Badiâ Conceived as sketches, the works in this corpus combine the expression of an interior universe with the essence of a place perceived from its details. This series produced at the Baadi Palace in Marrakech is part of a larger set on Moroccan alleys and architecture. Here,…
We have received this: we share it with you! Le Temps des cerises, a collaborative work by the couple Lia and Paolo Aldi, transforms exhibition spaces into an anachronistic world that is both ancient and contemporary. The dialogue between the two artists and the photographs from over 150 years ago is like a centrifuge: aspirations of brotherhood and fratricidal clashes, desire for self-determination and violent repression, places and dreams that…
He has portrayed luminaries from music, art and showbiz, surreally depicted the boundlessness of the big city and brought the greats of photographic history in front of the camera. With Abe Frajndlich. Chameleon, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) presents the iridescent diversity in themes of the American photographer Abe Frajndlich (*1946, Frankfurt/Main). On view are around 160 works from the 1970s onwards, including Frajndlich's earliest vintage prints from Cleveland. As…
It was my inveterate curiosity that, during my last column, led me into an investigation that was far too serious and in-depth compared to my initial intentions; moreover, it would not be finished since I committed myself at the end of this focus devoted to the fascinating photos of Count Charles de Clugny to put black on white, – extreme contrast which is not the prerogative only of photographers, since…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Kinship: Photography and Connection, featuring six contemporary photographers whose work results from deep relationships including friendship, ties to place, to community and beyond. On view at SFMOMA from May 20 through November 2023, Kinship: Photography and Connection brings together over 80 captivating works by photographers who share a special affinity with their subjects: Farah Al Qasimi, Mercedes Dorame, Jarod Lew, Paul…
Palermo, to life and death The Fondazione Merz honors the Sicilian capital through the eyes of five photographers from the island: Enzo Sellerio, Letizia Battaglia, Franco Zecchin, Fabio Sgroi and Lia Pasqualino. The exhibition Palermo, my love retraces the turbulent history of this warm-blooded city, from the 1950s until 1992, a period marked by the post-war rural exodus, severe poverty, as well as an intensification of mafia violence, culminating in…
The Zillman Art Museum (ZAM) presents the exhibition Meryl Meisler: 70s Suburban Sensibilities - Friends & Family from May 19 through August 19, 2023. Meryl Meisler was born in the Bronx in 1951 and raised in Massapequa, a Long Island suburb of New York City. Meisler’s neighborhood was largely composed of Jewish and Italian families, although there were also Irish, German, Greek and other first and second generation Americans. Meisler’s…
Taunus Foto Galerie presents the exhibition by Adriano Henney, Venice - Beyond the Mask from May 19th through July 29th. Adriano grew up in Italy and England and through his family knows Venice intimately. His alternative view of the city combines recognizable motifs with quiet, mysterious locations away from the hustle and bustle, aiming to capture the city's soul in the gradual, unrelenting erosion that seems to be its sad…
This year there will be the first edition of the contest "La Muta": The candidates will be exhibited in the shops of the city center and the winners will be chosen by public vote. The Biennale di Senigallia, your new destination: A Renaissance city amid seascapes and mountains, Adriatic beaches, photographic exhibitions, accessible artworks, curious gastronomy. Join and meet collectors, curators, photographers and passersby in lectures, debates and town squares.…
Hans Silvester received the Prix International Planète Albert Kahn in December 2022 for his entire career and for his testimonies for an era ranging from 1960 to the present day. Thanks to his openness to the world, the sharpness of his photographer's eye and his sense of beauty, he gives us iconic images representing everyday characters, witnesses of a culture, a place, of a moment... The photographer's eye freezes an…
In her “Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes” series, presented from May 13 to July 15 at La Maison du Regard in Le Havre, artist Catherine Balet pays tribute to the great Masters of photography by revisiting 176 years of its history. With her charismatic interpreter in golden shoes, Ricardo Martinez Paz, Catherine Balet revisited 130 iconic images in order to better understand the photography trends of today…
Ralph Ellison (1913–94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his lifelong engagement with photography. Photographer is the first book dedicated to Ellison’s extensive work in the medium, which spans from the 1930s to the ’90s. Throughout his life, photography played multiple roles for Ellison: a hobby,…
For this eighth edition, the organizers of Photo London have thought of several geographical focuses, in particular the one devoted to Iranian photography. Overview of the different proposals. Roya Khadjavi Projects and Nemazee Fine Art (New York) exhibit five photographers with original practices, united by their social and environmental involvement. Tahmineh Monzavi, known for his documentary work, now associated with an artistic approach, presents a mix of several series linked…
As the eighth edition of Photo London opened on May 11, the presence of many photographers from the African continent among the stands reflects the growing importance of this part of the photography market. Overview. Let us first note the strong French interest in this region. The Bonne Espérance gallery (Paris) presents a South African selection through a retrospective of the work of the great documentary maker Jürgen Schadeberg, whose…
The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem presents ‘Documenting Israel: 75 Years of Vision’, an exhibition of photographs opening on Israel’s 75th Independence Day 'Documenting Israel: Visions of 75 Years' is an exhibition of photographs that documents Israel from many angles, covering the State’s entire history as well as the years leading up to its founding. Comprising works by renowned local and international artists, the exhibition is curated by Anna- Patricia Kahn,…