Conceived in seven parts, the exhibition Dépaysement invites a dozen artists to question the idea of exile as an experience to explore and think elsewhere, a place that may lead…
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Italy, Sicily, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Algeria, Greece, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Israel, France, Albania, Palestine: Josef Koudelka has traveled to almost every Mediterranean country. With Marseille the 2013 European Capital of…
To kick off its 2013 program, the Galerie Hélène Detaille gave carte blanche to Matthias Olmeta, who continues his exploration of the ambrotype (sometimes called ‘collodion positive’). The…
Them, the citizens, the workers… Each one of them has his own ordinary life, working 9 to 5, taking vacations, feeding kids… They've been watching their homeland undergo a…
The sweeping gestures of photography have thrived on extremes. Great things, epic moments, the wretched, the vile, the dispossessed, the celebrated and the trodden, have all found themselves facing the…
Festival Director Shahidul Alam talks about the challenges and expectations one faces when running a festival such as Chobi Mela and points out the festival’s uniqueness and beauty.…
What is about Chobi Mela that makes it special and important? So what makes me come back to Chobi Mela, this pioneering festival for photography in Asia? It is the…
I guess I was always enthralled every time photography unfolded its mystery before me. I can clearly recall the day I first watched a slide projector working it’s charisma onto…
I met Shahidul just over 20 years ago, when Chobi Mela was just a twinkle in his Bangladeshi eye. It was another 7 years before it was to become the…
When Shahidul invited me to exhibit some of my work at the festival I started by browsing and sifting through my past work to see what would fit best for…