The latest very funny project by Romain Mader (ECAL Lausanne) entitled "Get The Look!" is presented until June 15 at Galerie Dix9. A series of self-portraits in this project on fast fashion, both ironic and sarcastic. The artist photographs himself with clothes purchased online on sites that encourage consumers to buy quickly and cheaply by using algorithms. The photographs are presented against a background made of clothes and accessories found…
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This is the most unusual text received this week. It is by Daniel Dytrych, the author of these photos! Does anything else release stress and problems in life more than an outdoor swim in the warm sun? My partner embraced an empty pool in Lanzarote. We have been together for ten years and I have never seen her enjoy being underwater, ever! I guess we learn something new about our…
Les Filles de la Photo association announces the launch of the 3rd edition of Les Filles de la Photo Mentoring program. The Les Filles de la Photo association, created in 2018, currently has 280 members representing nearly 30 professions in the photography eco-system. All wishing to be “better informed in order to better act ”, these women together wish to run a laboratory of ideas and use their influence to…
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Among a few invitations by e-mail to traditional vernissages, an image immediately caught my attention on the invite of the Fontaine Obscure. What an interesting photograph, it jumps out at you, intoxicates your mind without knowing why. Well almost, because after the first feeling and emotion, the inquisitive eye will look for other images of the series which it dissects and analyzes. It is this curiosity, a little useless; but,…
An appreciation of Helga Paris’s photography reached a wider audience than ever before with a 2019 major retrospective in Berlin, the city where she lived and worked. An exhibition at Kicken Berlin at the end of the following year confirmed the realization that Helga Paris’s work was of considerable and intrinsic interest. Now, two books of her portrait photography in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) make clear that the enduring…
Beauty, complexity and cruelty Born in 1948 in Toulouse, Philippe Blache has always seen his mother paint, and this is how he became familiar with the world of art. But very early on it was photography that attracted him, and more particularly the work of the photographer Edward Weston. Equipped with a 24x36 Miranda, he developed his films in the kitchen and when the day was over, it was the…
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An exploration of the best of the past, present and future of the medium, Photo London 2024 brings together over a hundred exhibitors from 44 cities across four continents, showcasing important works from across the globe from the dawn of the medium to today, from May 16 to 19, 2024. Fair Director Kamiar Maleki comments: “Welcome to the ninth edition of Photo London. In its first decade the Fair has…
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) presents a selection from their Karl Struss artist archive, offering unprecedented access to ephemera from all stages of Struss’ career, from his invention of a pioneering soft-focus lens to becoming the paradigmatic cinematographer of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood follows Struss’ artistic evolution from early fine-art photographer to innovative filmmaker. The Carter holds over…
Since the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, Ruben Natal-San Miguel has committed his photographic lens to the resilience of cultural identity and human connection in the dense urban environment of New York City. The exhibition Nature Finds a Way brings together portraits, with a particular focus on the Bronx, showcasing individuals in both real and synthetic nature. Here, tropical murals, artificial plants and floral prints also find a way to…
Frida Orupabo receives the SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie 2025 der Stiftung Niedersachsen. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros, a exhibition of her work at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and a publication. The Norwegian artist receives the prize for her photographic collages, in which she explores questions of identity, race, gender and the sexualised exploitation and objectification of black bodies in a special way. Frida Orupabo creates new narratives…
There are various ways of organising photography archives: alphabetically, thematically, or date of capture. Not so at the Archive of Modern Conflict in Holland Park in London. The 8 million plus images (and there could be many more) are filed according to the date of acquisition, with the archive function- ing almost as a diary, a library of the imagination in the Borgesian sense, or Situationist drifts. Of all the…
The Carré de Baudouin in Paris hosts an astonishing exhibition by Frédéric Stucin. Le Serment d’Opéra is the result of a meeting between Doctor Alberto Velasco psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center of Paris psychiatry & neurosciences and Myriam Mazouzi, director of the Academy of the Paris National Opera. Invited to pass through the doors of the Paris Opera, patients have agreed for two years to take part…
Man Ray (1890-1976) is an essential figure of the 20th century, inseparable from the history of photography, especially in this year 2024, when the surrealist movement celebrates its centenary. In this context, Photo Elysée opens its doors to an exhibition presenting a selection of works from one of the largest private collections, never before shown in Europe. Led by Nathalie Herschdorfer, the museum's director and exhibition curator, the curatorial focus…
Published by Damiani, Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts by Joshua Charow is a photographic journey through the last vestiges of New York City’s artist lofts. Envied by artists and apartment hunters alike for their wide windows and open floor plans, New York City’s lofts were once manufacturing centres in the late 19th and early 20th century. As urban density pushed industry into the suburbs,…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. Italian-born and Swiss citizen, Roberto Greco is a commercial & fine art photographer based in Paris. He started his career as an ornamental horticulturist before studying Photography, Art and Visual Communication in Lausanne. Whether he shoots a portrait or a still life, Roberto Greco's view of the real world…
In 1979, she graduated in History from the Federal University of Pará - UFPA. She was encouraged to learn to take photos so that she could record her daughters’ childhood. She attended the first Fotoativa workshop courses in 1984, conceived as a project by Miguel Chikaoka, a leading figure in the photo world of the country’s northern region. In 1985, Elza showed her first pictures on photo clothesline during a…
Photographs from a series taken indoors and whose films of the same origin were developed in different alternative ecological developers. After having developed black and white films in different ingredients, photographs of still lifes, flowers, various landscapes... I chose this time to approach reportage photography with the presence of characters in my images. This type of shooting, practiced by many photographers, was essential to my experiences with the widest possible…
Workshop Arts releases the book Björkvägen (Birch Road). Allen Wheatcroft's images have been about the study of people through a street photography aesthetic and orientation. In this new body of work, Björkevägen (Birch Road), Wheatcroft is still exploring people and their influences and idiosyncrasies, but now through a study of place and environment. While Wheatcroft has lived for 15 years on Chicago’s northside in the city’s historic Swedish neighborhood, during…
Christie’s will propose in New York on Thursday night, May 16, the photograph by Richard Avedon titled Marilyn Monroe, New York City, 1957. This large scale print, artist proof number two of two, aside from an edition of 10, will be auctioned with an estimate of $600,000–$800,000. “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe…Then there was the inevitable drop…she sat in…
Fotografia Europea is back, as always with new suggestions. From 26 April to 9 June, the 19th edition of the festival is on in the city of Reggio Emilia (Emilia Romagna) and winds its way between the institutional venues (with more than 20 exhibitions) and those of the Circuito Off, following a precise thread: Nature Loves to Hide, according to a fragment by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. The festival explores…
For all those who have had the chance to admire one or two photographic works by Denis Brihat, simply representing onions, a new chance is offered. Indeed, the excellent publishing house of photography books: “le bec en l’air”, has put together a superb new book for us, on Denis. This book is one of the major books that a connoisseur of the photographic sphere must have in his personal library.…