Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Coney Island´s American dream of technologically engineered leisure and spectacle looks slightly forlorn through Peter Granser´s lens, which registers a mix of sweet smiles and emptiness, dry humor and melancholy…

A small village in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, Gulmarg is located about fifty kilometers from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and twenty kilometers from…

“My documentary-style photographs offer a subjective narrative to viewers. In my series Historical Places, I look at the superposition of two separate temporal strata. These images of industrial landscapes serve…

“Photographing farmers has become increasingly urgent because very soon there will be none left. Old and lonely, without heir to their way of life, the farmers cannot pass on their…

Them, the citizens, the workers… Each one of them has his own ordinary life, working 9 to 5, taking vacations, feeding kids… They've been watching their homeland undergo a…

The sweeping gestures of photography have thrived on extremes. Great things, epic moments, the wretched, the vile, the dispossessed, the celebrated and the trodden, have all found themselves facing the…

What is about Chobi Mela that makes it special and important? So what makes me come back to Chobi Mela, this pioneering festival for photography in Asia? It is the…

I guess I was always enthralled every time photography unfolded its mystery before me. I can clearly recall the day I first watched a slide projector working it’s charisma onto…

I met Shahidul just over 20 years ago, when Chobi Mela was just a twinkle in his Bangladeshi eye. It was another 7 years before it was to become the…