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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Denier Being a woman is what distinguishes a woman, in every time and place. Her womanhood, her empathic beauty, not synonymous with perfection but beauty as a unicum, a harmony with the world that comes from an inner balance and is reflected in her aesthetic side. In this photographic series of mine entitled "Denier", a metaphor for the heaviness of the stocking -a veil that nevertheless does not suffocate but…
With whom Arthur Elgort has not worked with, might be easier to answer than with whom he actually has, because the gifted photographer probably has shot for all renowned magazines. He has created portraits of famous models and fashion icons which stand out through their unconventional and refreshing style. Those portrayed—such as Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, or Christy Turlington—appear carefree and at ease. One can tell that Arthur Elgort brings…
For his second exhibition at the in camera gallery, the Catalan photographer Txema Salvans guides us, as usual, through a candid journey far from any artifice. Industrial areas, cargo ports, power stations and evanescent seaside resorts, the series “My Kingdom” documents with humor and light tenderness the gloomy summer adventures of the Spaniards. “I photograph my own culture, people and landscapes. I have to feel a physical connection with the…
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The exhibition is called: The Teenage Self. It brings together 2 photographers: Sarah Lee Lewis and Iain McKell. It is the latter that we have chosen to present to you. He gave us this text! Private Reality - A Diary of a Teenage Boy In 1976 aged nineteen while studying at Exeter College of Art I got my self a summer job on Weymouth seafront photographing holiday makers. I saw this…
Gary Beeber recently presented the exhibition “Personalities" at PRAXIS Photo Gallery, Minneapolis. He presents his work as follow : Personalities "the quality or state of being a person" – Merriam Webster I have always been fascinated by people's stories. Especially captivating are individuals who push convention, driven by self expression. My background as a producer of an Off-Broadway burlesque variety show, Gotham Burlesque, led me to have intimate access to…
Photographer Rankin’s latest coffee-table book highlights the importance of creativity as a tool for personal mental well being. A companion series to Embrace (Rankin Publishing, 2021) works in this new limited run publication, titled An Exploding World, explore the aesthetic of destruction, through apocalyptic imagery reminiscent of nuclear explosions or comets. The creation of which became for the photographer an intimate take on artistic expression, frustration during lockdown isolation, and…
LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery presents "Découvertes", its summer exhibition dedicated to highlighting emerging artists on the international art scene. The fourth edition of this exhibition, which bets on the young generation, brings together the worlds of 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, on the walls of the gallery in Abidjan. Each deploys there, his/her singular sensitivity, his/her ontological perception of the world, of what binds individuals to their territory, their…
This is the sixteenth dialogue in the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue dedicated to that stage of voluptuousness and feminine personality that shoes represent. Heeled shoes, of course, photographed by Monsieur X and Helmut Newton, extraordinary masters, one anonymous and the other world-famous, who, even without ever having met, would have understood each other immediately. They were both women and shoes lovers. And walking together with their creatures, we wish…
Moneygame : The Show presents photographer Elizabeth Waterman’s fine art portfolio that recasts the lives of strippers and exotic dancers through a female gaze. Over a period of five years, Los Angeles-based fine-art photographer Elizabeth Waterman spent her Saturday nights in clubs in five U.S. cities, photographing and building a rapport with strippers and exotic dancers working in those establishments. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Waterman “recast the lives…
On view now at Boca Raton Museum of Art, Bonnie Lautenberg channels the creative zeitgeist between filmmakers and artists during each year that she intuitively chronicles, starting in 1928 up until 2020. The new exhibition “Art Meets Hollywood” is the museum premiere of Bonnie Lautenberg’s new series of digital collages, 28 diptychs pairing scenes from famous films alongside iconic works of art. Lautenberg’s only rule for her experimental process is…
The exhibition Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic features photographs by photojournalist Jerry Dantzic who received special access to Billie Holiday’s public and private life during a week-long residency at the Sugar Hill nightclub in Newark, NJ. It also includes commentary from celebrated author Zadie Smith as well as the inclusion of ephemera like a copy of a 1957 SEE magazine, one of Dantzic’s Leica M3 camera, and…
Gone are the days when you could venture from one crevasse to another, elegantly, even in your Sunday best, without the risk of part of a glacier collapsing, as it happened recently in the Alps due to climate change. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
Enjoy your fuckin’ life ! Atypical character of the Parisian night, Bruce Meritte has always been, as far as he remembers, passionate about images. Born in Paris, in April 1968, he started his life with a shout that already meant "enjoy your fuckin' life", a motto that will later govern his every move and had a tattoo made on his arm to remember, "You never know! With his baccalaureate in…
Let’s See is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer, a return to a time when she did not yet consider herself a photographer, the probing remembrance of “an eye I no longer have access to.” Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive—80% of which remains unseen—exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and ’90s she…
On the occasion of the retrospective devoted to Philippe Schuller until October 1, the Lyon Municipal Archives offer, in parallel with his photographs, another sensitive entry into the work of the photographer. Five short videos produced by film and audiovisual students explore, through different prisms, the eye, the technique and the universe of this complete artist. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/733935705"] Dissecting each detail or taking a step back on the work,…
Bildhalle Amsterdam presents the first solo exhibition of the German collage artist Miriam Tölke in the Netherlands. Miriam Tölke stacks everything in her studio, discovers, pulls individual leaves out of their bindings, rearranges and cuts out first impressions as forms. Faces are halved, landscapes chosen – everything that is important to Miriam Tölke and what reflects her own impressions. Between Berlin and the surrounding countryside, the city itself as well…
M77 presents Charlotte Perriand. The Avant-Garde is Female, an exhibition curated by Enrica Viganò and realized in collaboration with the Archives Charlotte Perriand, Admira and Cassina. The exhibition project sets out to shed light on the rich and versatile production of Charlotte Perriand, the famous French designer and photographer, collaborator and friend of Le Corbusier and other great names of her time, placing her photographic production of the 1930s in…
Her name is Emma Prince. She exhibits her images in Bonnieux as part of the Art Secret festival until September 18th. She accompanies them with this text: Getting back to the very essence of photography. To time and patience, to chance and to the shortcomings specific to film photography. When I was studying at the Beaux-Arts, I discovered that it was possible to make your own camera, by drilling a…