Highway 40 Quebec-Montreal Here are 15 photos from a series of 32 "chronicling" a trip from Quebec City to Montreal on Highway 40 at sunset. I took advantage of the fact that I wasn't the driver to photograph the landscape along the highway, using relatively slow exposure times to obtain deliberate abstractions. The effect varies according to the nature, variety and distance of the vegetation that borders it, but also…
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Masks Having discovered Venice outside of the carnival festivities, I toured the workshops and boutiques of the artisans, the real ones who make things made in Venice. Whether they are made of leather, wood, plaster, papier-mâché, painted, decorated with stones, jewels or feathers, they are true works of art. A long time ago the main function of the mask was to preserve anonymity, allowing its owner to play a role…
Paths My paths are a starting point. They are a collection of the fascination I feel when I discover them... Paths hide a thousand possibilities; they can open up a new path or close another. Paths get lost or they find each other again. There are those who no longer offer a way out, those who are a birth, those who destroy themselves, and those who discover a new heaven.…
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Mercurial Alchemists believe in the ultimate unity of matter and spirit; the direct correlation that exists between the tangible physical world (the Body) and the immaterial realm of consciousness (the Soul). To them, the human Mind is the special place in the cosmos that stands in between the two, and is thus able to conceive them not as separate, but rather as parallels on different dimensions. As Above, So Below:…
Ema Martins : Committed & Passionate Art is a field that she has been passionate about since she was very young. Photographer, model, but also exhibition designer, she has turned her versatility into a strength. Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts, she has, in parallel to her studies, worked alongside professional photographers who have perfected her training. At 20, she became a photographer for the city of Puteaux.…
Christian Caujolle and Cambodian photography relationship is about commitment. From 1997, when he created his first studio in Phnom Penh where photography, laminated like other forms of artistic expression, had disappeared during the Khmer Rouge terror, until today when he continues to animate the Photo Phnom Penh festival, Christian Caujolle considers his intervention in Cambodia as an engagement. In a country where there is no fixed image training, the festival…
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Images Plurielles presents the exhibition Aka Zidane by Michaël Zumstein at Maupetit, côté Galerie in Marseille. Aka Zidane is a photographic project carried out in Africa. An original inventory revealed thanks to the “soccer jersey” worn every day by thousands of young Africans as the costume of contemporary heroes who project themselves into lives other than their own. Michaël Zumstein: Aka Zidane from February 22 to March 30, 2024.…
The Photographers’ Gallery celebrates the work of Café Royal Books with a new display. Founded by Craig Atkinson in Southport in 2005, Café Royal Books has been producing affordable weekly publications since 2012. Now spanning more than 600 issues, it is an extraordinary printed archive of post-war documentary photography, often featuring previously unseen or overlooked work. Driven by a mission to make the publications affordable, accessible and free from fuss…
Andy Romanoff has been The Eye of Photography’s Los Angeles correspondent since its first days of publication. He has written about museums, galleries, festivals, and artists, always bringing his idiosyncratic viewpoint to bear. But for all we knew about him it turns out there was much we had never suspected. Now he has revealed much in a memoir called Stories I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You. Starting today we are going to…
The exhibition at Daniel Cooney fine Art coincides with the publication of Elizabeth Heyert’s Metamorphosis, a monograph published by The Grenfell Press an Artist Conversation with Lesley M. M. Blume and a short story by Colm Tóibín. Known for her groundbreaking photographs of the interior lives of others, most famously The Sleepers and her controversial series of postmortem portraits The Travelers, American fine art photographer Elizabeth Heyert delves once again into the deepest…
Bildhalle Zurich present the first solo exhibition of Dutch photographer Ilona Langbroek. Terra Incognita is based on Langbroek's own family history, which is closely linked to her country's colonial past and the history of the Dutch East Indies. It is about the uprootedness and split identity of people who were forced to leave their homeland in a hurry - like Ilona Langbroek's Indonesian grandmother, who was no longer welcome in…
In the heart of the Bethanien artistic district in Berlin, the Re:Borders collective has brought together seven artists whose work invites us to reflect on the causes and consequences of migration. Voices that rise against amalgamations and racism in a Germany where these issues divide. “We are here because you are destroying our countries.” It is with this quote that the manifesto which accompanies this week of exhibition begins, punctuated by…
Most of us know chicken from the pan or on the plate. Without life and without soul. But in the Hens and Roosters series about Dutch fowl breeds, I show the most versatile piece of meat from a completely different side. These fowl go by names such as Owl Beard, Crow Head, Dutch Crested Fowl or Brabant Fowl. They are living cultural heritage and their genetic material is kept in…
The Robert Koch Gallery presents its fourth exhibition featuring the works of Hungarian artist Tamas Dezsö. His latest series, titled Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf, embarks on a philosophical journey that intertwines human identity with the natural world, exploring themes of materiality, temporality, and ecological consciousness. Hypothesis: Everything is Leaf includes vibrant, large-scale botanical abstractions translated from slides of microscopic plant studies. The viewer is able to newly appreciate the complex…
One of the unusual portfolios received this week. It is signed Nika Sander and is accompanied by these few words. In this work I explore teeth as a record of human experience. I delve into the sensual and emotional world they reveal. I also try to look beyond human perception by studying plaque bacteria and machine vision. Nika Sander https://sites.google.com/view/nikasandler/
We learned of the death of Fadi Zahar, founder in 1980 of the Bookstore-Gallery La Chambre Claire. Fadi Zahar was passionate about photography and a lover of books. The creation of La Chambre Claire was an opportunity for him to combine these two passions. For nearly 40 years, La Chambre Claire was a major photography institution in Paris and an international reference. His gallery has also helped to highlight the…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents “Desire to See: Photographs by Agnès Varda”, the first exhibition in the United States dedicated exclusively to Agnès Varda’s photographic work. This retrospective exhibition delves into the rich photographic history of the French New Wave filmmaker and provides a comprehensive visual narrative of Varda’s life and creative pursuits through a diverse selection of photographs spanning from vintage lifetime prints developed and printed by Varda to newly…
Flowers Gallery presents Edward Burtynsky - New Works, opening on 28 February 2024. The solo exhibition will coincide with Saatchi Gallery’s upcoming major 2024 retrospective, BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction, the largest exhibition ever mounted in Edward Burtynsky’s 40+ year career. Edward Burtynsky - New Works offers a compelling journey into the intersection of nature and industry, capturing the awe-inspiring beauty and the environmental consequences of human industrial activities. This exhibition brings together…
W.VV.VV, is a 29-year-old non-binary digital artist and photographer and one of the 2023's Unpublished Photo open call winners The current exhibition at MUSEC is nothing short of captivating. Their series, "Psytopia", an exploration of fantastical landscapes through pastel pink photography and AR filters, aims to spark profound reflections on existence and societal transformation. W.VV.VV's artistic odyssey is as compelling as it is visionary. In "Psytopia," they meticulously document nocturnal…
This is one of the most touching stories we have received. Jacques Sierpinski sends us this text. La Disparition recounts in a photographic story the dazzling and tragic story of Annette Zelman, my father's first cousin. In the troubled period of German occupation and state anti-Semitism, Annette, a 20-year-old Jewish girl, full of life, emancipated and artistic, decided to take classes at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. She frequented the artists…
The Will Write Soon exhibition at the Centre d'Art Gwinzegal, Guingamp, is based on the collection of photographic cards put together by the collector and author David Thomson, who provided a first original vision in his book Dry Hole published in 2022 by Morel Books and AMC. Will Write Soon extends this work, this time offering an encounter with images “as they are”. Luce Lebart, curator of the exhibition, writes:…