These days, each World Press Photo announcement, each Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, each publication of a photo is hauled up for judgement in front of the 'retouching' courts. Cries…
Author Christian Caujolle
At a time when the Rencontres d’Arles is preparing to celebrate black and white photography, not far away, the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier directed by Gilles Mora, former artistic director…
Every year, the association Cétavoir gives a different photographer carte blanche to produce a portrait of the city. In 2013, the honor was intended for Gabriele Basilico. Illness prevented…
In the “Outland” series (1995 – 2000), Roger Ballen focused on white, marginalized populations around Johannesburg in South Africa. Gradually resisting the codes of classic documentary photography used in his…
Photography is rarely very funny, and this year’s program at Sète is hardly an exception, with series about memory, identity and social questions. The exhibition of Thomas Vanden Driessche, a…
Born in Bulgaria, daughter of a famous painter, Eugenia Maximova documentary photographs exhibit few effects but much finesse. Le Journal previously covered her series of kitchens in the Balkans, where…
Dutch photographer Ad van Denderen fits perfectly within the documentary tradition, which has proven so strong in his country over the last few decades. He devotes himself mainly to long-term…
On Sunday afternoon, a wintery sun shone through the great glass canopy of the Grand Palais, the atmosphere was cool, literally and figuratively: the gallerists complained not only about the…
A grey light filters through a quiet clearing in a softwood forest. The ground has been carefully kept clean. A few fragile shrubs with tender green leaves grow between the…
Official celebrations, however boring, can sometimes lead to worthwhile initiatives. Although the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Russia four hundred years ago is not necessarily a major…