Laura El-Tantawy recently released a newspaper version of her book, In the Shadow of the Pyramids. This new format offers a different experience from the book, taking away the personal narrative in favor of…
Author Laurence Cornet
A feverish red light shines on an androgynous nude body being whipped by a chain that might be a purse strap or a sex toy. To its left, two hands…
Méditerranée is a travelogue, a journal of memories told with tender nostalgia. Raymond Depardon loves the sea as much as he loves the farmlands of his childhood and the sweeping, ocre…
Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico has made headlines of decades, known as one of the deadliest cities for women, who died there in large numbers for reasons which remain unknown.…
In 1989, Fouad El Khoury was awarded the Prix Médicis “Hors Les Murs” and set out to follow in the footsteps of Gustave Flaubert and Maxime Du Camp. “Flaubert and Du…
Mohammadreza Mirzaei is a polymorphic photographer. He photographs in an abstraction that echoes, paradoxically, his appropriation of his increasingly intimate personal geography. He is also an educator, a publisher and a…
Thirty days, thirty square-format photographs rimmed in black with no apparent logic: some urban and industrial views, a wind farm, the tomb of an English mercenary, a lost tractor, a…
Mohammad Ghazali makes sure to vary, literary, his points of view. In the first series, he takes the places of the statues of politicians, artists and scientists scattered throughout Tehran,…
With its robust presence on the international art market, Silk Road Gallery might be mistaken for the only photography gallery in Tehran. Admittedly, it was the first to devote its…
Ruth Webb describes ekphrasis as something that, “brings out the subject vividly before the eyes of its recipient.” Sina Boroumandi’s subject is photography, which he divides into a chemical process…