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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“If you come back with one shot you like, well at least you feel like you’ve achieved something.” ~ Roger A. Deakins Peter Fetterman Gallery presents the inaugural exhibition of acclaimed photographer and filmmaker, Roger A. Deakins. The exhibition is running through the end of the year. The opening reception also included a book signing featuring Deakins’s book, Byways, published by Damiani Publishers in September 2021 and has since been…
The exhibition is called Le Japon en duo (Japan as a Duo). It brings together photos of Géraldine Lay and Marc Riboud until December 31, 2022. One, Marc Riboud, in black and white, traveled to Japan in 1958 - series to (re) discover - would have been 100 years old in 2023. The other, 50, Géraldine Lay, in color, wandered at random four times three weeks (from 2016 to 2019)…
A. galerie and its owner Arnaud Adida present a selection of photographs by Sory Sanlé. Born in 1943 in Nianiagara, Burkina Faso, Ibrahima Sory Sanlé lives and works in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. He began his career as a photographer in Bobo-Dioulasso the same year his country became independent from France in 1960 as the Republic of Upper Volta. As a young apprentice working with a Ghanaian chef, he learned to…
Photo Poche is celebrating its fourth decade of existence this year, an opportunity to look back at the history of this reference collection that has democratized access to photography. The Photo Poche collection was born in a climate of effervescence for the arts. One year earlier, in 1981, François Mitterand was elected president of the Republic and appointed Jack Lang to the culture department of his socialist government, who was…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. For ten years, the Japanese photographer Nobuo Iida has been taking pictures of plants, with a blur that borders on abstraction. The result is Symphony, an opus…
With the digital platform Elles font la culture, the Ministry of Culture intends to help women and gender minorities develop their careers. Laurie Chapotte and Sarah Witt introduce us to Elles font la culture, the Ministry of Culture's new platform for women photographers. Could you start by introducing yourself and the other members of Elles font la culture? There are five women behind Elles font la culture. Jennifer Stephan,…
The Museum of Sex in New York presents Self Power | Self Play: 50 years of Erotic Portraiture by Linda Troeller. For half a century, artist Linda Troeller (b. 1949) has used the camera as a tool for sensual empowerment. The first museum retrospective of Troeller’s work in New York City, Self Power | Self Play will feature over sixty erotic photographs on loan from the artist’s studio and Bryn…
AMI and Magnum Photos collaborate to give birth to a photographic project on the theme of the family. The Parisian brand joins forces with Magnum Photos for an extraordinary collaboration, and entrusts 13 members of the renowned photography agency as well as 2 guest video artists, to interpret the theme of the family. This collaboration, FAMILY, is the subject of a traveling exhibition in four cities around the world, as…
Stéphane Mahé presents his new exhibition at the Galerie L'Entrée des Artistes until November 12th. Alexandra Palka who wrote this text! Imbued with an aura on almost fantastic, Stéphane Mahé's images lose us in the labyrinthine narration of a mysterious logbook offering a wandering of the mind. The photographer with an alert and fleeting brush handles the effects of light with the delicacy of a tightrope walker to reveal to…
Alon Zakaim Fine Art presents a solo exhibition ‘If Only These Walls Could Talk’ – a new body of work from London-based Persian artist Maryam Eisler, shot at the fabled Hôtel Nord-Pinus in Arles. Photographed at the legendary hostelry amid the ghostly presence of Picasso, Cocteau, Callas, Chaplin, Hemingway, and Van Gogh, Eisler’s work explores the masculine and feminine tensions that the city has seen and lived over centuries. During…
German photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998) has secured her place as one of the major photographers of the 20th century. Her pioneering images during the inter-war era reveal a modern vision influenced by the impact of both the Bauhaus and Surrealism. Alongside her personal work she produced images in the fields of photojournalism, architectural photography, advertising and fashion, and her work was published in the major magazines of the period and…
Photofestival 17TH, Milan’s art photography festival, goes on in November and beyond. Photofestival’s itinerary spreads throughout the territory, covering the metropolitan area of Milan and some neighbouring Lombardy provinces. In its previous 16 editions, Photofestival gave life to 1650 exhibitions by 1600 Italian and international authors and involved 707 different exhibition spaces. It managed to engage photographers and visitors offering the opportunity for outreach and communication on photography and visual…
Photographer Rob Hammer logs in an average of 35,000 miles per year road-tripping around the United States in his truck with his dog, exploring, discovering, and photographing what he's said can be "an endless expanse of unknown." He's come to call the trips "treasure hunts," and the 75 color images collected in his new book, Roadside Meditations (Kehrer Verlag) reflect a sense of respect and wonder not only for the…
Contradicting to enter resistance. Lee-Ann Olwage is originally from Durban, South Africa. A visual storyteller, her work explores themes of identity, transitions and universal narratives through long-term projects. Interested in using photography as a mode of celebration, her collaborative projects allow individuals to engage in the co-creation of their stories and how they are represented. For Lee-Ann Olwage figuration is meaningless, oblivion and absence are impossible. This is how the…
Until November 12, the Sarto gallery presents an exhibition by Véronique Fel entitled Habana Old Cars which she tells us about in this way: Havana, Cuba, May 2017. I could not return without having in my images, these old American cars, essential and universal. They are the joyful emblem of a tormented country, under American embargo for more than 50 years, embargo partially lifted in 2016. I knew that the…