The video shown is the trailer from the film Julien Levy is presenting alongside his photographs and texts at Gallery Acte2 in Paris. Julien Levy is 28 years old,…
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One day back in 1989, I received my first feature commission abroad to photograph Gainsbourg in Paris, at his house, on rue de Verneuil in the 7th district. I was…
In “La Carte et le Territoire”, (The Map and the Territory), Jed Martins, the hero of Michel Houellebecq’s book, wanders through Paris’ 13th arrondissement, visiting the rue Domrémy, the place…
“My work deals in daily tensions, in those anxieties that we experience due to the discrepancies and contrasts between beauty and comfort, between the “great possibilities” of our time and…
An encounter with S. H. Lim (Vivat Pitayaviriyakul) and his fashion and glamour photography is akin to a trip in a Time Machine. Back to the glory days and uncomplicated…
Alonzo Jordan worked for forty years as a photographer in Jasper, Texas, a small town that was little known until the brutal murder there of a forty-nine-year-old African American named…
In August 1992 Robert Frank’s good friend Reginald Rankin invited Frank on a trip to Pangnirtung, a village of around 1,300 Inuit inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. This book is…
The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for International Photography announces call for applications for grant program of 5,000 USD. The Foundation is currently seeking to award one social documentary photographic project produced…
In September of 1952, a Russian immigrant in New York named Anatol Josepho sets up the first completely automatic photo studio. A small booth where it is possible to…
Technically speaking the so-called “White Nights” (Beliye Nochi) are not unique to St Petersburg, but only here the northern nights have received such a poetic acclaim. What could be more…