“November 2007. I have been asked to go and film a Kurdish battalion of the Iraqi army. This battalion is located in Mossoul. I have 48 hours to make a…
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“They say that music music soothes the soul.” Guillaume Chamahian finishes his text on the series Bosnia. This is probably a nod to a past life. “I stopped school rather…
Evocative smiles firmly outlined on glacial and ambivalent pouting lips. She wants to live as though she were twenty years younger. In search of renewed youthfulness, she is as old…
As part of the symposium entitled “Intensité de la photographie,” prepared, coordinated and hosted by Françoise Docquiert and Rémy Fenzy, on Wednesday, July 4, I attended a morning’s worth of…
For its eighth edition, the Night of the Year imbues the streets of Arles with a festive atmosphere to accompany a grand photographic tour where different artists from newspapers, magazines,…
The Maison de l'Europe de Géorgie was founded by Lionel Charrier, Raphaêl Glucksmann and Natalia Kancheli. Every spring, the Tbilisi Photo Festival is presented in the Georgian capital. The…
A passion for photography, news, and art drove the Genestar family to create Polka in 2007. A unique project sponsored by Marc Riboud, Sebastião Salgado, Reza, Jean-Marie Périer and…
Since his beginnings, in the middle of the 1970s, James Casebere has been making objects which he then photographs. These objects, in themselves, have no importance because the artist, who…
Pentti Sammallahti's work is a kind of space odyssey. From his viewpoint Earth is no higher than a man or a bird, it's white as snow and just as pure.…
The Night of the Year is featuring a projection about the French daily “Libé”. The newspaper Libération began in 1973 under the direction of Jean-Paul Sartre.…