I mainly work in black and white because to me that simplify my visual world. [...] In the 22 Conjurations, Skirts, Flatland and Spaceland series, the monochrome mode allows me…
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At the age of four, after the death of his parents, Nikolai Bakharev was placed in an orphanage. He became a mechanic in the steel industry and in 1970 began…
Alexandre Slussarev started taking photos in 1959 and quickly became a member of the USSR Youth Organisation Committee’s photographic section. In 1962 and 1964, he participated in the “ Our…
Born 1970 in Beirut. Lives and works in Beirut. Zeina Arida was educated between Beirut and Paris. She studied Literature and Theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in…
I have been supporting the Rencontres with the LUMA Foundation for more than 10 years now. The foundation helps the Rencontres build and consolidate their international influence. Thus, the discovery…
Lives and works in Paris. Director of Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2006, Diane Dufour has curated numerous exhibitions, including Euro Visons at the Centre Pompidou in 2005 and The…
Born in Boston 1950. Lives and works in Boston and Rochester. Alison Nordström is Curator-at-Large of the George Eastman House, the oldest and largest museum of photography in the world,…
Born in Australia. Lives and works in London. Brett Rogers is the Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, London, the first publicly funded gallery dedicated solely to photography in the UK.…
Since 1996 when Olga Sviblova founded the Multimedia Art Museum (formerly known as the Moscow House of Photography), she has overseen the acquisition of more than 80,000 photographs of Russian…
With his photographic series, Martin Becka questions us about the meaning of the organisation of our present and about our aspirations for the future. [...] Dubai, [...] cliché of modernity,…