Denis Dailleux’s new book Impressions d’Egypte is a dream-like portrait of the country he has been intimately involved with since 1992. “I fell in love in Egypt, with Egypt” says…
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Sophy Rickett’s new project To The River premieres in the New Forest Pavillion at Palazzo Zenobio as an official collateral event for the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di…
Shortly after the Second World War, Henri Salesse began working as a photographic operator at the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism (MRU). MRU production, similar to the photographic work…
For our Beijing correspondent, Li Hu is a photographic discovery. A survivor of the Third Indochina War and the Cultural Revolution, he retired at the dawn of the 21st…
Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is undoubtedly one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He was inspired by the sculpture of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and translated this…
Erin Trieb is probably one of the most gifted photojournalists of her generation. She has just launched a web documentary project on the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and she…
It’s hard not to think of Richard Avedon when looking at Li Hu’s Coal Miner and Happiness work. He captures the hard working, soot-covered individuals immersing themselves in a profession…
Émile Savitry (1903-1967), a little known photographer during the “racy days” of Montparnasse, mingled with the international artists and intellectuals that Paris had to offer from 1930 to 1950. …
It is difficult to write or talk about Malick Sidibé. There is the risky stereotypical description of him as one of the greatest African photographers of his generation, or worse,…
Melanie Light is an American writer and former co-founder of Photovision, a non-profit organization devoted to promote documentary photography. She also teaches. Her last two works are Night at the…