Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Removed from their social and cultural context, the masks, statues and ritual instruments that we admire in museums are bleeding to death from a lack of understanding. They were not…

The only belongings that slaves were allowed to take with them, as they were leaving their great kingdoms of West Africa, were their gods. They smuggled them out to the…

The Bwiti rituals originated in Central Gabon. Several centuries ago It was at once a vision of the universe, a teaching, an organization of society and a therapy. Only admitted…

Jérôme Thirriot always returned to India as if it were his adopted family. Initiated to its culture at the age of twenty while learning to play the traditional tablas…

Every year, in the heart of the Southern hemisphere’s winter, Earth is plunged into darkness, face-to-face with the Milky Way, our galaxy. In order to view this staggering panorama in…

There are places that blow your mind: inspired and inspiring places that instill the conviction that here, in this place, men find themselves linked to something that can…

After travelling through Russia, Asia, and Oceania, Frédéric Lemalet was captivated – in the literal sense of the word – by Tibet: captivated by the beauty of its landscapes, and…

Every time she visits Rome, Véronique Ellena likes to explore the city, taking photographs of her encounters with things and places. Today we join her during her aimless walk with…

Known for decades in his native Romania and having produced many books, received many prizes, and exhibited in Europe and New York, Sandu Mendrea was nonetheless a victim of censorship…