Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Raymonde April is known for her inspired photography of her private life which she balances at the confluence of documentary, autobiography and fiction. Loving the ordinary, she has forged a…

For Roger Ballen, photography is psychological reflection. Asylum (2004-2010) is the artist’s most recent work. The series mostly consists of scenes of birds in macabre, nightmarish or lewd sketches which…

Juan Manuel Echavarria was first a writer before turning to photography in the 1990s in reaction to the guerilla movements in Columbia. Bocas de Ceniza (Mouth of Ashes) is the…

Jim Verburg is another artist who poses questions about human relationships. He focuses particularly on the questions of intimacy, sexuality and what is often left unsaid in such relations. For…

Jesper Just likes short films with a background of soft and narrative music. In them, the artist presents men confronting their emotionality and mainly presents ambiguous love situations, reversible and…

Cristina Nuñez is adept at taking self-portraits in private. She started the practice in 1988 in an attempt to overcome personal problems. It quickly became therapy in the form of…

The 12th festival of Montreal’s Mois de la Photo opens this Thursday, a non-profit biennial of contemporary photography. Twenty-five artists will be exhibiting their work in fourteen places in the…