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 Helmut Newton Foundation and Pinault Collection present CHRONORAMA. Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century. Following its highly successful premiere at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the collaborative project will be shown at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin starting 15 February 2024. CHRONORAMA marks the latest partnership between the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin and leading international collections. In 2018, it hosted Between Art & Fashion, with 223 works by…
Celebrating the International Center of Photography’s 50th anniversary, ICP at 50 brings together over 150 works that highlight the institution’s expansive, deep, and idiosyncratic collection of photography and image culture. Presented chronologically, the exhibition traces photography’s evolution through 50 years of collecting. Images made from the 1840s through the present span photojournalism, documentary, vernacular material, scientific and governmental imagery, fashion photography, protest posters, and contemporary art. Taken together, they challenge…
The International Center of Photography presents David Seidner : Fragments, 1977-99, the first major survey of the photographer’s work. Known for capturing avant-garde fashion of the 1980s and 1990s by designers such as Yves Saint Laurent—with whom Seidner had an exclusive contract with at age 22— and Madame Grès, Seidner was also a prolific editorial photographer for publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Harper's & Queen, The New York Times Magazine,…
Keith de Lellis presents an exhibition of four distinguished African-American photographers who professionalized their passion for the photographic arts by establishing careers as masters in the world of photojournalism. Eli Reed, Coreen Simpson, Ozier Muhammad and Beuford Smith all brilliant and savvy picture makers, are shown here documenting the world around them in images of historical and cultural significance. The exhibition consists of a sampling of about a dozen images…
Michael Joseph’s Lost & Found published by Kehrer documents a contemporary American subculture of young Travelers through raw, striking portraiture and intimate storytelling. These Travelers abandon home to move around the country by hitchhiking and freight train hopping in a nomadic, transient existence outside of mainstream society. Along their personal journey driven by wanderlust, escapism, or a search for transient jobs, they find a new family in their traveling friends.…
The new exhibition at Galerie de Buci pays tribute to photojournalism legend Stanley Greene (1949-2017). On the day of his birth, the gallery presents an exhibition entitled See You in My Dreams!, from Anna Shpakova's personal collection. As curator of the exhibition, she revealed to the public for the first time in France a selection of Polaroids taken between April and September 2001, accompanied by love letters from the photographer.…
Jackson Fine Art presents a selection of new works by Spanish photographer Andrea Torres Balaguer. Six previously unreleased photographs, including some resulting from her recent collaboration with Dior. Not unlike the exhibitions of Gail Albert Halaban and Mary Ellen Bartley that opened concurrently, Balaguer’s large scale portraits in the intimate Viewing Room of the gallery are striking jewels that derive power from elements that remain unseen (one of the ongoing…
Patricia Faure: Wild & Free Born in the 70s, Patricia Faure is above all a free woman who lives her life with passion. Self-taught, her career path is extremely atypical. Indeed, her bohemian spirit and need to escape soon led her to travel the world, opening restaurants, bars, galleries and concept stores in the United States, Mexico and France. Actually, she devotes most of her time to photography. Her aim:…
The Jeu de Paume pays tribute to Tina Modotti (1896-1942) through a major exhibition, the largest ever dedicated to this photographer and political activist of Italian origin in Paris. The exceptional career of Tina Modotti has never ceased to fascinate: her work mainly produced between 1923 and 1930, is striking for its dazzling character. It was in post-revolutionary Mexico that her political consciousness was forged as well as the particular…
The Jeu de Paume dedicates an exhibition from February 13 to May 12, 2024 to Bertille Bak, nominated for the 2023 Marcel Duchamp Award. Nourished by the careful observation of contemporary society and by the desire to divert the usual representations of marginalized or invisible communities, the work of Bertille Bak (born in 1983 in Arras) depicts populations, rituals or situations which it subverts with the complicity of the protagonists…
LA Gun Club at Palo Gallery, New York continues Jane Hilton’s twenty-five-year fascination with US subject matter. Jane Hilton is a London-based photographer and filmmaker who is renowned for her work documenting American culture, in particular the American West, which she has explored for the past twenty-five years. Her coffee-table books and portraits have won much acclaim, encompassing a modern folkloric American and featuring communities of cowboys, working girls, burlesque…
Fork is Tanguy Sergheraert's second book, it is distributed by Art & Paper. Instinct is this reaction anchored in the body of the human being, A reaction which makes the body know before the brain. Accompanied by his cameras, Tanguy thus evolves through multiple landscapes, with this instinct as a compass which pushes him to trigger when a moment of life passes. Traveling the coasts of Senegal, from Saint-Louis to…