The ‘R’ of the title is the artist himself, a photographer by trade but moreover a visual artist and narrator of considerable talent, whether he’s using books or photographs. No…
Author Laurence Cornet
PhotoVille is in its third year, and each edition has been more inspiring than the last. What began as a modest event in a few containers, whose inside walls were covered…
Tired of the media’s stereotypes of Africa, inevitably presented as war-torn, disease-ridden and poor, in 2012 photographer Peter DiCampo and journalist Austin Merrill launched Everyday Africa, a Tumblr blog showing images of daily life…
For a while in the 1990s, New York had an underground scene for the homeless—literally underground, in the city’s labyrinthine network of tunnels. Down there, hidden from disapproving looks, they…
François Pesant has chosen to address an invisible phenomenon, a scourge that has left deep psychological scars on an entire system: rape in the United States Army. Shame, anger, betrayal and…
The years Agnès Varda spent in Los Angeles saw the development of her free-spirited and protean oeuvre. Mainly known as a filmmaker (Cleo From 5 to 7, Vagabond), Varda’s husband was the Jacques…
Photography from the Middle East receives fairly little attention in the United States, and our image of the region is fashioned by journalists covering conflicts that date back to colonial…
On the ground floor of the Bureau des Lices in Arles, the darkness is pierced by the glow of visitors’ flashlights as they pore over Anouck Durand’s photo novel, published by Xavier…
Among the editorial discoveries at Arles is Halil Koyutürk’s I am playing ping pong now. “Ping pong” is the sexual back-and-forth, the orgy of bodies and raw sensuality, in which Halil indulged…
For the past 25 years, Frédéric Brenner has studied the Jewish diaspora in an attempt to answer the question: what does it mean to live with a portable identity? Winner of…