PhotographyFestivals

Olivier Amsellem was born in Marseille in 1971. He now lives and works in Paris. Like a deep scar running through his life, he speaks of the paradoxical feelings that…

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…

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…

Hrair Sarkissian has turned his attention to a controversial topic in Turkey: a deadly, concerted wave of violence targeting Armenians in 1915 and their forced conversion to Islam. In recent…

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…

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…