Author L'Œil de la Photographie

On the Rue Cambon, Chanel No. 5 was sprayed every morning when the doors opened. It was the aroma of a boudoir, of love. And of a hive: at Chanel,…

New Jersey native Peter Downsbrough is a major figure of the conceptual art world. He now lives in Brussels. Downsbrough began by studying architecture but soon turned his attention to…

A common misconception of a watershed is that it’s all about the water. While water does play a large part, the land plays an even larger role by directing the…

Several years ago, an old black dress made of velvet caught my attention in a second-hand shop. I examined the garment carefully. There was no label. The style of the…

As a child I often looked at the stars. Against the dark there were all those bright blinking lights . As minutes went by more stars became visible, some…

My material is light. The work focuses on energy rather than matter. My work is about the process as much as about the result. My process combines systems of calculation…

Following in the tradition of romantic landscape painting, Kalle Kataila thematizes man, quiescent and motionles, tarying before nature’s grandiose scenery. In more recent works, Kataila not only finds his atmospheric…

I started photographing when I was 14 years old - now I am 40. During the first years, I photographed around the house, the fields, and the forest. At the…