In “La Carte et le Territoire”, (The Map and the Territory), Jed Martins, the hero of Michel Houellebecq’s book, wanders through Paris’ 13th arrondissement, visiting the rue Domrémy, the place…
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“My work deals in daily tensions, in those anxieties that we experience due to the discrepancies and contrasts between beauty and comfort, between the “great possibilities” of our time and…
An encounter with S. H. Lim (Vivat Pitayaviriyakul) and his fashion and glamour photography is akin to a trip in a Time Machine. Back to the glory days and uncomplicated…
Nestan Nijaradze, editor of the Georgian magazine Photo, is presenting for the first time in Moscow an exhibition of six young photographers from her country. Two years after the…
“There’s clearly a reason why kids are hanging out here all the time, everyone is here for s different reasons,” observes photographer Eric Johnson. There are so many stories in…
Born in 1983 in Moscow. As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and…
20 years have passed since Serge Gainsbourg has taken his final bow. An immigrant’s son who loved to tangle up the French language, using slang and juggling words, he…
From February 25th through April 24th, the city of Montpellier will host the exhibition “Playgrounds, fields of tension : Figures in European urban photography since 1970”, at the Pavillion Populaire.Monika…
Meeting Frederick Edwin Bertin for the first time can be a rather out-of-time experience. With his gentleman education and delicate manners, his passion for the sculptors Riemenschneider and Houdon, the…
The French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is devoing an exhibition to Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974), one of the most famous travel writers of the 20th century. Thanks to…