Jean-Claude Marguerite sends us this portfolio accompanied by this text: At the beginning of the 2000s, I lived a stone's throw from the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. On my first walk, I was struck by the self-importance displayed by the male busts, almost all made on the same model. I then began to photograph the female statuary, in black and white and in 6x6. I moved shortly after, and another…
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Seen on the Corridor Éléphant website this portfolio by Bruno Dumas. He writes : How to explain, or even develop meaning in a speech where just the second is the most important. The instant, so furtive an instinct, challenges our eyes to what must be, perhaps a good image, a beautiful illustration. But this second, just this second when I think I have brushed against the Holy of the Holy…
Éric Alcyon presents the new version of his photographic series Utopia II. This series focuses on the economic crisis of Greek sovereign debt. Born in 1968, Eric Alcyon discovered photography while studying in Quebec, continued at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes, accompanied by commissions and exhibitions, notably at the Mai de la photographie de Reims with a series entitled Hypermarché which shows his interest in the "Thatcher years photographers" such…
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After 10 years of activity as a photographer and 20 spent in the world of images, Céline Andrea has just released her first book. The editor Paul Luro presents it like this! Here is Céline Andrea's very first monographic book, edited and published by Normal Magazine (Editions Incarnatio). It brings together on 184 pages, the most artistic work of the artist, her most personal shots far from the fashion campaigns.…
Thorsten Wulff is an absolute matchmaker. Not sure which year we met exactly, but it’s been a few years down the road already. When it comes to photography, what never fails to impress me are the wide variety of cameras, techniques, and places that Wulff masters in his work. Analogue, digital, darkroom, on location, on site – he does it all. Pair that with his gentle nature, large network, and…
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Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle Certainly, we have already noted that photographic images have become, — in their technical achievement, catastrophic due to the disappearance of know how. That is not all, if the fighting stops due to a lack of fighters, the photographs become exhausted due to a lack of photographers worthy of using the name. It is clearly established that the appearance of images became poor in quality, the…
Alain Willaume, 2024 winner of the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, exhibits Frôlements de l’ombre (Touches of the shadow) at the Villa Pérochon until February 17, 2024. In the preface, Alain Willaume wrote these few words: “I am more of a traveler who, sometimes, makes images… a lookout who assigns himself certain territories and surveys them to alert his fellow men or suggest to them some dreams or fertile questions.” …
Each year, Scam awards the Roger Pic Prize (named after its instigator, a humanist and generous photographer, director and copyright activist) to the author of a photographic portfolio which documents reality and questions what is human with singularity. The Roger Pic prize is awarded by Scam following a call for applications and is endowed with €5,000 by the Scam-Vélasquez association. In partnership with Fisheye magazine It is the authors of…
Gyula Zaránd's exhibition, Budapest-Paris, 1963-2001 will run until December 2 at the Galerie Olivier Waltman. The gallery represents the estate of Hungarian photographer Gyula Zaránd (1943-2020). Budapest-Paris, 1963-2001 is the first exhibition presented in a gallery with a selection of period prints never before shown in France. Gyula Zaránd started taking photography at the age of 15, following in the footsteps of her grandfather and her two parents, all photographers.…
A true challenge to the dominant narratives on the history and authorship of photography, this book published by Delpire & co encourages us to consider photography from the angle of collaboration between the photographer and the photographed. Led by five great theorists and practitioners of photography, including more than a thousand photos and contributions from 120 authors, this vast collective project breaks with the traditional idea of the “single creator”…
Stanley / Barker presents the new book by Melinda Blauvelt : Brantville. In 1972, Melinda Blauvelt spent the summer in the small Acadian fishing village of Brantville, New Brunswick on Canada’s Eastern coast. She lived with a fisherman and his family, ran a day camp, and made a series of remarkable, compassionate portraits of the village residents that summer and on three subsequent visits from 1972 to 1974. Her photographs…
Release by Editions Hermann of the work Émile Zola et la photographie. Une page d’amour in partnership with the Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie. We know Émile Zola as a writer, journalist, committed intellectual, but the man of letters is also a man of images. Long attracted to photography, he devoted himself to it passionately at the end of his life: this facet of his creativity deserves to…
Taunus Foto Galerie presents the exhibition "Evanescence" by Jean-Michel Lenoir. A passion for nature from an early age led Jean-Michel Lenoir to photography, to capture the magical moments of beautiful, pristine nature and wildlife. Landscape photography is his quest for atmosphere, where light and beauty are key references, his aesthetic landmarks. Jean-Michel relies on his love of open spaces, combined with his quest for beautiful light. He searches for simplicity;…
One of the most unusual and poetic emails received this week. It announces an exhibition: Tautologie jardin de papier – papier de jardin until November 27 at the Mouvements bookstore gallery. Plants that become paper, then images of themselves, bear witness. The harvest is the beginning of the great work: immortalizing the inflorescences of a garden, the fields of a landscape, the work of the earth, the passage of time,…
With 44,000 visitors in 4 days and more than 100 high-quality original exhibitions, Montier is a unique meeting place in Europe for wildlife and nature photography! It is also a meeting place between photographers, naturalists, associations and professionals. With 40 hours of conferences, 1 “round table” space, 100 forums on naturalist knowledge and photo technique, the festival promotes debates and exchanges, for all audiences, on major environmental issues. From November…
Wang Bing's exhibition is on display at the galerie espace temps in Paris until the end of November. Here is Jean Loh presentation. Widely known and praised for his films and documentaries rather than for his photography, Wang Bing is presenting a singular selection of his photographic work for the first time in Paris. As we enter this place “Espace-Temps”, there is immediately a requirement to gaze in the dark,…
The Galerie Goutal in Aix en Provence presents the latest exhibition by Ole Marius Joergensen, entitled Vignettes of a Salesman... last of his kind until November 22, 2023. It is accompanied by this text: A figure from the past, the door-to-door salesman is the centerpiece of the series Vignettes of a Salesman by Ole Marius Joergensen. A film buff, Ole uses intense cinematic lighting to tell the story of the…
Artist-in-residence of the 14th edition of the Planches Contact festival, Jacopo Benassi Italian (b. 1970) takes an iconoclastic approach to photography, using it as a "gateway" to other practices: painting, sculpture and performance. When he arrived in Deauville, Jacopo Benassi had in mind to experience the place first and foremost as a painter: "Walking along the beach, taking notes in a drawing album, in the manner of William Turner, the artist…
2023 marks the entry of Dolorès Marat into the Photo Poche pantheon. Born in 1944, the French photographer has made a lasting impression with the blurred motion and chromatic richness of her dreamlike world. The introduction to Photo Poche by French writer and art editor Éric Reinhardt tells the story of Dolorès Marat: her turbulent life and the salvation she found in photography, the sensitivity with which she approached the…
A fashion exhibition entitled Mémoire d’une élégante is being held until November 25th at the town hall of the 16th arrondissement of Paris. This exhibition is designed by Laetitia Hedde. She presents it like this: The “Memory of an Elegant Lady” exhibition pays tribute to a resident of the 16th arrondissement who devoted more than forty years of her life to two prestigious French fashion houses: more than 30 years…