This is a truly unique approach, a little wild, obsessive and ultimately invigorating for photography. Using antique plates, many partially broken and missing pieces, Kelvin Bown reconstructs what the original images might…
Author Christian Caujolle
In the largest Syrian refugee camp—two supermarkets opened this week—Agnès Montanari, a French photographer living in Baghdad, asked a group of teenagers to photograph their daily lives, which they did,…
Not all the photographs are interesting, but in the heart of old downtown at the Diwan of the Duke, an extraordinary cultural location, there’s something moving about these black-and-white photographs…
This is the fourth edition of the International Image Festival in Amman, Jordan. Founded and funded by the French Institute, the festival was the idea of its current director, Charles Henri Gros,…
To discover one of the festival’s most interesting exhibitions, you have to climb the stairs and enter the Fann Wa Chai café-gallery, opened a year ago by Linda Al Khoury,…
Finally, in the exhibition space of the Zara Gallery in the luxurious Grand Hyatt hotel, a documentary exhibition that’s well done, and on a theme that may surprise. The young Jordanian…
In the room next door is a series by Dalia Naber on the former soldiers who stand guard at the entrances of immense homes and buildings throughout the city. While the photography…
Some will be won over by this exhibition. Others won’t. But it is undoubtedly the product of serious work and reflection on the part of Mohamed Abu El Naga, who examines…
It is to this Brazilian photographer that I might have given the International Lens Award. Her black-and-white “story” of two sisters in the same train is tender, elegant, mysterious and…
This series also could have won with its beautiful depiction of snow-covered Kabul, discreet, tender, showing a remarkable finesse with colors. Rarely have we felt such harmony in Kabul, with…