Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Southern Ireland, October 2011. I am following the traces of my father, who disappeared 16 years ago. He left with five friends for a week-long motorcycle tour. Destiny scatter…

I consider my current work as an open project, which grows parallel to an everyday creative activity based on lived experience. 
For this particular series, that began in 2008,…

Obsessed with the issue of consumer society, I stood on the sidelines of the Tour de France to see the show everyone was waiting for: the caravane publicitaire, a…

In Beauvais, travel is easy. The city’s airport serves many European cities. Every year, the photography collective Diaphane sends photographers to discover the city of their choice, challenging them to…

Somerset Stories, Fivepenny Dreams reflects on the sense of belonging and identity connected to Venetia’s childhood home. Exploring the haunts of her youth and the lives of the current inhabitants,…

What do people do behind their closed doors, hedges, fences and gates? Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the French close themselves in. For a long time I asked…

Before me a snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and wolf tracks, I have spent the past two days in the forbidden zone of Chernobyl. I didn’t want to come…

Only eight years after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Josef Heinrich Darchinger began his career as a photographer in the Federal Republic of Germany. Major cities reduced to rubble during the War…

Enormous spaces, endless walkways, wide sluices, cryptic signs; all combined with miles of cables and pipes. They form a technical universe that radiates a cool logic. A hidden world, known…

Alexandra Demenkova continues the classical tradition of humanistic photography . In the series Territory of Broken Dreams for the photographer chose a Russian village and its people.…