A few months ago, the Russian photographer and editor Xenia Nikolskaya stumbled across a Facebook post by one of her friends: it showed a family photograph representing Syria in all…
Author Laurence Cornet
For several months, the Council of Europe has highlighted the dictatorial tendencies of the Erdogan government in Turkey, particularly since a state of emergency was put in place following an…
German photographer Thomas Ruff had decided to blow up the NASA images in a desperate attempt to get his visitors walking on Mars. But there was no need for those…
On the cover of the book published by Éditions Xavier Barral to accompany the exhibition at Agnès b. Gallery, a girl’s calf clothed in a Pelerine knee-high sock traces a…
A succession of surprising political outcomes sent a jolt through the media. Delivering points of view non-representative of the public at large, political analysts have systematically failed to grasp a…
A hawk with its wings outstretched introduces, with unease, Peter van Agtmael’s latest book, Buzzing at the Sill. We learn in its pages that the preying bird in the image…
New York City, 1980’s. The fiscal crisis of the late 1970’s had resulted in record levels of homelessness that were only recently surpassed by 2017’s estimation of more than 60,000…
In the early 19th century in Canada, boarding schools for indigenous children were founded to eradicate indigenous culture, and this by all means. Residents from these repressive institutions were punished…
In 2013, Robin Hammond received the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project Condemned—Mental Health in African Countries in Crisis.…
In the words of the art critic Philippe Dagen, “Émeric Lhuisset is a kind of artist we haven’t seen in a dozen years . . . . For lack of…