We rarely discuss photography from the Middle East. But things are changing here. East Wing has just opened a new gallery with an international outlook in Dubai, UAE, headed by artistic…
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East Wing in partnership with Foam presents, a selection from one of the photographic industry’s most prestigious contests for young photographers. The Talents competition, which was launched last week at…
You’re a young gallery. Can you tell us how this adventure began for you three? Sophie Escougnou: We opened a little over a year ago in July 2013. I had been working…
“I think of my photographs as elements in a novel I am in the process of writing.” Deep in the heart of the ordinary—that’s where the novel sequence William Eggleston has been writing…
This exhibition considers the zigzag and other abstract geometrical forms as recurring visual themes in Francesca Woodman’s work. Woodman’s practice is often discussed in terms of its surreal and symbolic…
Sous Les Etoiles Gallery presents The Play and Staging of the Self: Five Photographers on Identity, featuring the work of five emerging and established photographers: Laia Abril, Jen Davis, Olya…
A few years ago after an exhibition in Istanbul, a journalist from Géo magazine told me about a photographer who wanted to come to Africa and follow me around in Porto-Novo, where…
In cinema suspense denotes unresolved conflict, an undecided outcome, a vague and inexplicable feeling of anxiety. This effect became a popular instrument in the years following WWII and was instantly…
The latest exhibition from Bettina Rheims, Bonkers! A Fortnight in London is opening today at Christie’s in London. Coinciding with the release of the book of the same name, this exhibition features thirty photographs…
Pierre Coppey is the head of VINCI, the French highway company. Vinci is one of founding partners of Le BAL and the sponsor of the exhibition S’il y a lieu, je…