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…
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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…
1971, the Epinay congress just occurred, the united left is making progress. From meetings to gatherings to congressional demonstrations, Pascal Lebrun covered François Mitterrand’s career path, his women and men,…
Born in 1984 in Tehran, Arash Fayez is currently studying Architecture in Soureh University whilst being a professional photographer. About his work, Ramblings of a flâneur, Sohrab Mahdavi says in…
For her photography series Stefanie Schneider exclusively uses expired Polaroid film in which the chemicals react in an unpredictable manner provoking chromatic aberrations, holes and haloes that carefully rest over…
Christophe Beauregard was born in 1966 and lives in Paris. Following his studies in Literature, he became interested in photography and tattoo removal, as he states: “As tattoos and body…
On Friday two photographers, Chris Anderson and Ashley Gilbertson, who have seen the worst of human kind’s ability inflict pain and suffering on their fellow inhabitants of this small planet…