Nearly three years after the death of this renowned anthropologist, Defacto La Gallery is revisiting the photographic work of Claude Levi-Strauss. As he once said himself, he never considered photography…
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I made the first photo from the Veils series in Alger. She was a young woman with veil imbued with great magnetism and intensity in her gaze. There was an…
I was covering a news story in Navarre when I discovered the Bardenas Reales. That’s where I “found” the piece of land that would serve as the setting for the…
Nocturnes 5.0 is a poetic voyage through our cities. In these Western cities, large and small, some of them capitals, I tried to capture the things that humanity has been…
A return to my native country 50 years after its independence, 20 years after leaving it. How do I photograph it without being too obvious? The Africa we’re used to…
Photography is a mental state for me. I came to it through travel. Conversely, the static nature of the image has the power to transport the viewer. In the rich…
According to the Romanian philosopher Cioran, Dor, the Romanian word for “nostalgia,” refers to a kind of melancholy similar to the famously untranslatable concept of saudade, a deep longing for…
This series was taken during a long photographic journey through South America that Damien Guillaume took between March and September 2011. It is being exhibited here for the first time…
From town to town with a bag slung over his shoulder, Christopher Héry found his subjects by walking without any particular direction. He only takes pictures with his model’s permission,…
From July 2007 to August 2011, I traveled several times to Japan. I had long been fascinated with the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun. Throughout these travels,…