Last year, the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival was a disappointment. There was no clear vision for the festival, far too many exhibitions, high ticket prices, and an overrepresentation of Magnum…
Author L'Œil de la Photographie
I began this series of photographs following a very unpleasant event. Last year, the place where I live and everything in it—my room, my bed, my furniture, my paintings and…
Liu Yue (b. 1981 in Shanghai, China) started out as a painter, but he turned his focus to photography after graduation. His photographs, although outwardly simple, reveal surprising depth upon…
I always question why photographers pair their pictures. Is it to obliviate the weakness of a single image or is it truly because it reinforces the message and brings a…
François Truffaut once wrote that there are no good or bad movies, only good or bad directors. That was the upshot of his “politique des auteurs”, his politics or policy…
5 portfolios. This is the selection of W.M Hunt, for his third week. 5 portfolios, with these words : "There were only 29 portfolios. I was expecting more". W.M…
Most of Julien Legrand’s pictures explore the chance moments of everyday life, with a focus on pedestrians. For him, streets and public spaces are inexhaustible sources of inspiration. He always…
In 2009, my family home in Jura, France, burned down. Over thirty year of my parents life and 21 of mine own gone in 2 hours. On the second day…
Getting access to photograph the Canadian oil rigs is very difficult, so when The Discovery Channel asked me to shoot promotional stills for their TV series Licence to Drill, I…
It’s dusk on a Wednesday afternoon in Dili, East Timor – an island nation some 600 kilometres off the coast of Australia. An hour ago, rain was pouring from the…