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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Ambroise Ngaimoko Born in 1949, Angola. Lives in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1961, Ngaimoko moved with his family to Kinshasa. There he worked as a mechanic, then as a technician for an open-air cinema, before he became assistant to his uncle Marques Ndodão in 1968, who ran two photo studios, and who gave him a camera Yashica 6x6. It was in Kitambo in 1971 that he opened…
J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere Born in 1930, Ovbiomu, Nigeria Died in 2014, Lagos, Nigeria, where he lived and worked In 1950, he bought a modest Brownie D camera, and a neighbor taught him the rudiments of photography. In 1963 he moved to Lagos to work for West Africa Publicity. In 1967 he joined the Nigerian Arts Council, and during their festival the following year he began to take series of photographs…
Malick Sidibé Born in 1935 in Soloba, Mali Died in April 14th, 2016 in Bamako, Mali, where he lived and worked Malick Sidibé was born in a Peul family in a small village of Mali. He was noticed for his talent as a draftsman and was admitted to the School of Sudanese Craftsmen in Bamako from which he graduated in 1955. He decorated the "Photo Service" store of Gerard Guillat,…
Seydou Keita Born c. 1921, Bamako, Mali Worked and lived in Bamako. Died in 2001, Paris, France Initially trained by his father to be a carpenter, Keïta’s career as a photographer was launched in 1935 by an uncle who gave him his first camera, a Kodak Brownie Flash, he had purchased during a trip to Senegal. In 1948 he opened his own studio in Bamako and he quickly built up…
The French curator Fabien Danesi was invited by the Galerie Imane Farès to conceive 'The Video Fortnight', a special programme dedicated to videos works, occuring from March 10 to 20, 2021. “Each vertebra is an extinguished sun”, it's title is taken from a line by Etel Adnan in her epic poem Apocalypse Arabe (1980). The programme questions our contemporary world through the prism of the desert, from “Arabia to Atacama”. Here…
Galerie Les filles du calvaire is pleased to announce the donation to Le Centre Pompidou by Les Amis du Centre Pompidou of a large set of photographs from the series On Abortion of Laia Abril. The gallery thanks Les amis du Centre Pompidou for their support. Galerie Les filles du calvaire 17 rue des Filles du Calvaire 75003 Paris - France www.fillesducalvaire.com
By Amy Paulsen David McCabe, Warhol Chronicler and Fashion Photography Eminence, Has Passed On. David McCabe (1940-2021), the photographer who famously documented a year in the life of a young Andy Warhol, has died near his home in Rennselaerville, New York. Born in 1940 in Leicester, England, McCabe was raised in the shadow of WW2 bomber planes, educated in graphic design and photography, and sent to New York to fulfill…
As everywhere, also in Ethiopia the peasants observed me, when I went into their fields to photograph the scarecrows. They are the creators of these ghostly figures. For me it’s folk art. But the peasants know very well that the effectiveness of scarecrows against birds, and in Ethiopia also against monkeys, is very relative. These farmers in the high mountains of Ethiopia have a very hard life, and making these…
Steven Lyon has lived several exciting lives which have all added up – like a gigantic mosaic – to what he is today. A heart-throbbing, cosmopolitan, and well-educated ex-model turned photographer. He devoted his life to being first in front of and then behind the camera. Lately he has been fighting for the protection of the wildlife and is always on the lookout for the next project. After a first…
Garage Stills by Jacquie Maria Wessels will soon be added to the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Recently the board of directors of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam [NL] has decided to add four works from the series Garage Stills to the collection of the museum. The works are selected by Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom, curators of photography at the Rijksmuseum. www.rijksmuseum.nl From the 5th of December 2020 until…
The river we know today as ‘Columbia’ was known for thirteen millennia by the names given by its original inhabitants: Wihmal, Nch’i-Wàna, and Shwan-etk-qwa among others. Big River or Great River. Captain Robert Gray christened it ‘Columbia,’ after his ship the Columbia Rediviva. ‘Columbia’ is from Christopher Columbus, a man who raped, murdered, enslaved and spread disease to indigenous people and destroyed their cultures. Gray, credited as the first white…
The "Personal Opera" series are self-portraits in which I wanted to express the delight and sensuality of texture with such materials as organdy that were sometimes see-through allowing for mystery and feminineness as a kind of ‘daily-life’ goddess examining my age. The veiling became an active part of the shooting process to take a stand to learn to love my time of life. Actress Frances McDormand, Oscar winner, mentioned on…
Signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality 6x6” prints by Magnum Photos photographers for $100, available for one week only. Celebrating the unpredictability of life, the curation of the Magnum’s Square Print Sale explores the happy accidents and unusual turns of events that lead to memorable images. From its earliest days, photography has been associated with the unexpected: documentation of under-explored issues, reporting of events unfurling in far-flung locations, or single frames capturing…
Today we have lost the immense photographer Giovanni Gastel. Gastel is one of the most recognized fashion photographers in Italy. He passed away at 65 from Covid complications. We have lost a marvelous gentleman that seemed to have landed on earth from another era to share a deep message with us through his art. A man of culture, poet and photographer, Gastel pulled from his major repertoire of references such…
An other look at what surrounds us I met Gail in 2004 in Los Angeles for a photoshoot with Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen at the Standard Sunset Hotel. At the time, she photographed what in our professional vocabulary we call "people" and also did commercial photography. Having studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and later at Yale University, she also realized personal work, in the form…