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 Fahey/Klein Gallery presents “Greg Gorman: It’s Not About Me”, an exhibition hosted in conjunction with his newly published book of the same title (TeNeues Media). This publication and exhibition are a record of Gorman’s continuous examination of portraiture and the human form. This study has allowed him to draw attention to some of the most influential personalities and styles that defined the end of the 20th Century. Greg Gorman’s…
How David Attie invented Photoshop in the 1950’s By Eli Attie Okay, my father didn’t invent Photoshop. But if you look at his stunning photo-montages, from an era long before personal computers -- and even longer before everyone with an iPhone became a poor man’s Ansel Adams -– you’d be forgiven for thinking someone slipped him a prototype. The fact is, David Attie was creating complex, densely-layered compositions with the…
Michael Rababy makes wonderful books. His first one, American Bachelor was a loving look at the messy, complicated, hedonistic, thoughtless/thoughtful lives of young singles at the turn of the 21st century. His latest book, California Love – A Visual Mixtape features him as curator rather than photographer and it’s filled with the work of 110 photographers all looking at the phenomenon that is modern day California. Filled with fresh images…
“From chaos arises poetry ... This sentence sums up the contradictions of the small country Haiti. For this series of photographs and the accompanying book, I have drawn on my archives: 10 years of traveling across the island. After 24 trips, I know (almost) every nook and cranny of a country so complex to understand. But it is in the images of cities that I have extracted unpublished works. Haiti…
Abdullah Alothman's works Sound Carving (2020) was filmed in the Saudi desert. It is part of the video programme conceived by Fabien Danési shown in the Imane Farès Gallery (Paris). This special programme also hosts in the gallery space works by Francis Alÿs, Ali Cherri, Larissa Sansour and many other artists, gathered on a simple thematic: the desert. This sensory, geographical and even meteorological prism provides the frame to apprehend…
The exhibition « les saisons de maia flore by quand les fleurs nous sauvent » invites you to go through a year of photographic poetry to the rhythm of the artist's sensitivity. The works presented for sale, produced over the past ten years, highlight the artist's intimate connection with nature in general, if not with flowers in particular. Always staged in her somewhat surrealist compositions, and often tinged with humor,…
The Union of Professional Photographers (UPP), the first professional organization of photographers in France, elected a new Bureau last month. This Bureau, made up of Matthieu Baudeau, chairman and Lucie Sassiat, vice-chairman, aims to initiate new actions. With 70 years of history and a thousand members, the Union of Professional Photographers (UPP) is the main and first representative organization of photographers in France. Its mission is to defend the interests…
Jean Loh told us about the death of Chinese photographer Wang Fuchun, he pays homage to him: “Hello Jean-Jacques, I learn this morning of another painful loss, my friend the great photographer of North East China Wang Fuchun died yesterday in Beijing of cancer - he was 79 years old, another photographer after Li Zhensheng and Bruno Barbey who was born could not cross the line of 80 YEARS! I…
The Magnum Gallery presents MOROCCO, an exhibition of works by Belgian photographer and filmmaker Harry Gruyaert focusing on his extensive travels to the North African country of Morocco. Gruyaert’s first trip to the country marked his colour photography ‘epiphany’. Gruyaert joined Magnum Photos in 1982. The exhibition is presented until 2 April 2021 at the gallery and online. While Gruyaert became fascinated by the power of colour when he first…
This new and expanded edition of Joel Meyerowitz’s widely acclaimed photobook, Wild Flowers—now, in a larger format, features new and unpublished images. For nearly forty years Joel Meyerowitz has tended his visual garden in the streets and parks and cities he has visited or lived in. He goes out into the streets open-eyed and passionate, carrying a machine which is perfectly suited to the task of taking it all in.…
Les Douches la Galerie presents L’éloge de la main [In Praise of the Hand], a collective exhibition crossing various movements that investigated the motif of the hand in photography. This exhibition brings together fifty prints from the works of twenty-seven artists spanning the period from 1925 to 2018. The hand, a dreaded exercise in painting and drawing, became a recurring technical and symbolic motif from photography’s earliest stages onward. Since…
Wars in Afghanistan, Syria and other countries have generated a massive stream of refugees toward Europe. Between spring 2015 and autumn 2020, Jacob Ehrbahn undertook numerous trips to document the lives of the refugees and migrants who dream of a better life in Europe. We meet people who have fled from war, political suppression, and poverty. We meet them far out in the Mediterranean in Libyan waters, where some are…
Chemistry and Light brings together the work of Chuck Kelton and Joseph Minek -- two artists who practice versions of camera-free photography. They each elect instead to work directly with the raw materials of darkroom practice -- paper, chemicals, lightbulbs -- generating unique monoprints. Their energetic works carry resonance with abstract painting and natural phenomena. Taken together, each to the other, Kelton and Minek represent in their common philosophies and…
“I was assigned by the "Saturday Evening Post” to do a few pictures of Brando on his first visit to Los Angeles for a film. He was living in a little shack up in Beverly Glen. I had called to get permission to shoot and he said “I can’t give you any time really but if you want to come in for a quick shot, I’ll do it.” He was…
From March 6th to May 8th 2021 André Magnin hands Omar Victor Diop the reins of the gallery for an exhibition dedicated to the great African portraitists. Heir of the African photography studio - whose codes are sometimes reinvested in his self-portrait - Omar Victor Diop selected for this Carte Blanche about fifty pictures from the photographers who influenced him. Mama Casset, Seydou Keiïta, Malick Sidibé, J.D.'Okhai Ojeikere, Jean Depara…