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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Julia Scully, who after 20 years as editor of Modern Photography magazine wrote an acclaimed memoir about her Depression-era childhood, when her mother put her and her sister in an orphanage before moving the family into a roadhouse in a remote part of Alaska, died July 18 at her home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 94. Her death was confirmed by Jana Martin, a daughter…
Until September 9th, La chambre claire Galerie in Douarnenez presents Étoile du soir, the latest exhibition by Corinne Mercadier. " I am looking for images of a particular, unpredictable conjunction between the body, the object, the decor and the light. "... for The sky starts here, " I am accompanied by melancholy and the mystery of Dürer, Kubrick, Spilliaert and Poe." Corinne Mercadier La chambre claire Galerie 3 rue Voltaire…
The museum presents two Berlin series in an exhibition where the visions of their authors confront each other to deliver a profound and fascinating autopsy of the German capital. Berlin, 4,000 inhabitants per square kilometer and almost as many ways to look at it. Berliner Kontraste combines two visual worlds sharing black and white but with very distinct materials and contours. These photographs, taken between 2004 and 2015, explore the…
My first job was wedding photographer. Which I was for almost ten years. It suited me to watch others be happy and to think that I was the one on whom the memory of the happiest day of their lives depended. Besides, I only worked on Saturdays, which left me time to think about other things. After the shootings, all the photographers met in the laboratory to wait for the…
The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is devoted to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan. On 26 May 2023, the NGO Amnesty International published jointly with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) a report urging the International Criminal Court to qualify the abuses committed by the Taliban as a “crime against humanity” based on gender and sexuality, under article 7 of the Court’s Rome Statute. "While…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Muses & Self: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg. This exhibition of Ginsberg's personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs…
A dialogue in word and image, The Moons of Saturn monograph, newly published, is a collaboration between photographer Frank Rodick and writer Nancy Brokaw. The book is based on Rodick’s suite of images, completed in 2021, that reflect on the human condition in extremis, particularly during the time of Covid. Using a foundation of vernacular photographs—of both intimates and strangers—that anchor the constructed images, each picture may be understood as…
This is the twenty-seventh dialogue from the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue that for the first time brings together two photographs by the same author, Frank Horvat. And I think no one better than this master has been able to talk about imagination and desire, and how men imagine women’s desire. Ettore Molinario He looked at them and let himself be looked at. Frank Horvat looked at women and…
The Centre d'Art et de Photographie de Lectoure has announced its program for August. Exhibitions, guided tours, courses, workshops for young people... All info online here
We learned of the passing of Jim Lee, through the years we published many times his body of work, today’s edition, taken from our archive, is entirely dedicated to him. Holden Luntz Gallery published the following text : It is with profound sadness that we share with our friends and collectors the passing of Jim Lee on July 30, 2023. He was a talented, original, and creative artistic force. His…
Archive - May 7, 2020 Jim Lee has worked in the fashion industry for over 50 years now. He was originally nicknamed “the original wild child of fashion photography". In this interview given to London Live, he recalls his experiences as a career artist, giving an insight on his cinematic narratives, asymmetrical compositions, and bold colors helped usher in an era of expressive liberty for fashion photography. Born in 1945,…
Archive - December 11, 2017 An exhibition on view in Zurich, Switzerland, currently features the work of British fashion photographer Jim Lee. Photographer and filmmaker Jim Lee has always kept an ear to the ground – mindful of the zeitgeist and anticipating the trends. But, as with many artists, it is only the benefit of hindsight that reveals some of the most remarkable aspects of his work. As a fashion…
Archive - February 6, 2017 For Jim Lee, storytelling was always at the heart of his work and his life. Lee was born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives marking a beginning to a life that followed anything but a conventional path. At the young age of 17 he decided to move to Australia where his interest and passion for photography sparked. His time in Australia was…
Archive - February 18, 2013 François Truffaut once wrote that there are no good or bad movies, only good or bad directors. That was the upshot of his “politique des auteurs”, his politics or policy of authorship, which was based on the idea that the force of a personal vision could subdue the money-making machinery of the film industry to its own ends—and that anyone whose vision had the force…
Archive - September 19, 2012 Jim Lee – ‘Arrested’: 50 extraordinary years of the original wild child of fashion photography Jim Lee, often referred to as England’s answer to Guy Bourdin – made himself a name with his fresh and illustrious take on fashion; the original wild child of fashion photography. Arrested is the biography of London-based photographer and film director Lee and traces his photographic development as well as…