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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One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of power for more than 40 years. Her complex oeuvre—always ahead of its time, and profoundly formative for younger generations of artists—has employed photography (for which she is best known), fabric, text, audio, digital images, installation and video. Writing in the New York Times, Holland Cotter succinctly…
Sacha Goldberger is a photographer who has a very pronounced taste for staging. And his pictures prove it, as they are so amazing that they show the titanic work worthy of Hollywood super-productions. For him every detail counts. But, for once, for this book dedicated to those who are usually in the shadow of the Elysée, his images are different, but always as surprising. Let's meet... How did the…
Inspired by works belonging to the world of art history that have accompanied me since adolescence, this particular bond is like that of a family of souls whose invisible family tree whispers to me to draw it. This purpose is carried out as follows: compose a setting, stylize the models, illuminate, and guide the subject in front of my lens. Photograph and work in post-production on digital files up to…
The exhibition Une ligne formée de points presents for the first time in France the work of Japanese photographer Tomiyasu Hayahisa, born in Chigasaki in 1982. Graduated in 2016, he became known two years later, with the publication of his book TTP published by MACK, quickly out of print and reprinted several times since. For this series, he installed his camera on his windowsill and photographed the park located in…
“We hope you all take a ride down to Miami for a week of non-stop art” - Holden Luntz Gallery Holden Luntz Gallery – Booth AM210 www.holdenluntz.com Art Miami November 29 – December 4 The Art Miami Pavillion One Miami Herald Plaza @ NE 14th Street, Downtown Miami On Biscayne Bay between the Venetian & Macarthur Causeways Wednesday – Saturday 11AM - 7PM, Sunday 11AM - 6PM https://www.artmiami.com/
Lise Guillon & Emile Garcon : Promising young talents. Born in Brittany, Emile Garçon is a director, photographer and the author of a first novel. At the age of 19, he left for Lebanon to photograph the revolution. He made a second photographic series on film sets. At the same time, he directed short films in Verdun, Paris and Burgundy and won several awards in festivals. Lise Guillon was born…
The Académie des beaux-arts is hosting the exhibition Fulani of the Sahel by Pascal Maitre, winner of the 2022 edition of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography award- Academy of Fine Arts. Thanks to this award, Pascal Maitre has been working for two years on this project which has taken him to Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin. The Fulani people number no less than 70 million men and women, spread…
After Home in 2014, Les Douches la Galerie is devoting a new personal exhibition to the work of Tom Arndt. Accompanying the publication of the book Reflets d’Amérique by the atelier EXB, the exhibition brings together twenty-six photographs taken from 1970 to the present day, printed by the artist. Together, they tell the poetry of simple things in an America of big cities, suburbs and the rural world. Since the…
For a decade, The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year has established itself as the leading award in food photography and widely contributed to expand the definition and understanding of the what and why of photographing food. The Eye of Photography has teamed up with the Award to shed a light on this ambitious programme. Let's meet Caroline Kenyon, its founder and director. What are the origins of…
Starting on November 26, 2022 Camera Work Gallery presents the exhibition Olaf Heine: Human Conditions with works by Berlin-based photographic artist Olaf Heine. Featuring more than 40 works, the exhibition shows numerous main works from the artist’s body of work as well as new photographs, which are exhibited for the very first time. It is Olaf Heine’s most comprehensive exhibition so far, who is exclusively presented by CAMERA WORK Gallery.…
He was born 1886 in Guadalajara and died 1980 in Madrid: José Ortiz Echagüe was a man of many talents. In 1914, the engineer and balloon and aircraft pilot, took part in the first successful attempt to fly across the Straits of Gibraltar. He also founded two of Spain’s most successful large corporations, namely the C.A.S.A. aircraft factory in 1923 and in 1950 the automobile manufacturer SEAT. At the same…
Christopher Anderson began photographing his family in a completely organic way. His images were simply the natural action of a partner trying to stop time, and not let one moment of his relationships slip by. As a photographer, he had never thought of his personal photographs as ‘work’ until photographer Tim Hetherington saw a photograph Anderson had made of his wife Marion and said, “this is about the passing of…
On the occasion of the publication of the book The American West, Les Douches la Galerie presents its fourth personal exhibition of Ernst Haas. Taken between 1952 and 1981, the thirty-two photographs presented testify to his sensitive explorations of the American West and the wide technical palette that characterizes his work. In the summer of 1952, Ernst Haas, an Austrian-American photographer, set off on a journey to the heart of…
This is the 27th installment of the online series by Peter Fetterman Gallery called the Power of Photography highlighting hope, peace and love in the world. We invite you to enjoy and reflect on these works during this time. William Klein (b. 1928) Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1990 © The Estate of William Klein/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery Only a smart, sensitive, intelligent, maverick like William Klein could have pulled this image off. It indeed has power…
A.Galerie presents Storytelling by David Yarrow. Published by Rizzoli Editions and released in Europe and the United States, this new 350-page book includes more than 125 iconic photos of the artist and also includes a signed print. For more than two decades, British photographer David Yarrow has created evocative images of iconic personalities, sporting moments and endangered wildlife. The images in this book alone have generated nearly $40 million and…