Betel Nut Beauties is a photoseries documenting the compelling phenomenon of roadside betel nut stands across Taiwan. A fixture on the streets of urban and suburban Taiwan, these brightly lit,…
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For the past three years Katy Grannan has roamed the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, photographing strangers. Her subjects are most often people whom others pass by without…
The Gotha reunions on the world of photography, on the occasion of the 16th edition of the HSBC Photography Prize – one of the first “out of the ordinary” sponsors…
Born in Russia in 1979, Lev Ilirov followed his mother who had chosen to emigrate to Israel as many other Russians did during the 1990’s. Scenes from everyday life taken…
When I flip through the pages in Paul Jasmin’s latest book California Dreaming, I come to think about the song Being Boring – the second single from Pet Shop Boys’…
In 2006, Leon Herschritt celebrated 50 years in photography. To him we owe such iconic portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, the General De Gaulle, Salvador Dali, Catherine Deneuve, as well…
In addition to his street portraits, Bruce Wrighton also tried to capture environments. Not because he wanted to be close to his subjects, but to show that he felt…
I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order…
After his first trip to Brazil in 1999, when Vincent Rosenblatt discovered Rio and the favelas that surrounded the official city, he returned from 2005 to 2010 to explore the…
In 1977, I was the head of the cultural department of Le Monde. An article by Hervé Guibert ran during the summer. From the Festival d’Avignon, he described…