Removed from their social and cultural context, the masks, statues and ritual instruments that we admire in museums are bleeding to death from a lack of understanding. They were not…
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The only belongings that slaves were allowed to take with them, as they were leaving their great kingdoms of West Africa, were their gods. They smuggled them out to the…
The Bwiti rituals originated in Central Gabon. Several centuries ago It was at once a vision of the universe, a teaching, an organization of society and a therapy. Only admitted…
Jérôme Thirriot always returned to India as if it were his adopted family. Initiated to its culture at the age of twenty while learning to play the traditional tablas…
Jean-Dominique Burton takes pictures because he travels, not the opposite. Humanity is his only subject and the portrait is the only method he uses. It is because he wanted to…
Every year, in the heart of the Southern hemisphere’s winter, Earth is plunged into darkness, face-to-face with the Milky Way, our galaxy. In order to view this staggering panorama in…
There are places that blow your mind: inspired and inspiring places that instill the conviction that here, in this place, men find themselves linked to something that can…
Amateur photography has been honored in Toulouse for three years thanks to the MAP Festival. Jean-Stéphane Cantero and Pierre Garrigues, both festival directors, presented the new edition under way until…
The 27th edition of The International Fashion and Photography Festival opened in Hyères on April 27. Curated by Michel Mallard and Raphaëlle Stopin, the Festival is presenting works by 10…
De Primi Fine Art SA is a Swiss art gallery based in Lugano. The Company can offer various services to its clients: consultation and advice on individual works of art…