Benny Villanova had many lives. He is a Sicilian immigrant, a Vietnam veteran, a former sanitation worker, and most recently a “certified” garbologist. Benny scours the neighborhood, collecting what others…
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Nature Morte is one of the best galleries for photography and contemporary art in Delhi. In Niti Bagh, near Gulmohar Park, we spoke with its director, Peter Nagy.…
In 2006, three friends and entrepreneurs, Abishek Poddar, Naveen Kishore, founder of Seagull Books in Calcutta, and Shalini Gupta, created Tasveer, an organization dedicated to promoting photography in India. Present…
The Alkazi Foundation, situated in the quiet residential neighborhood of Greater Kailash in South Delhi, is a unique place in India. It keeps the memory of the country in the…
The next stop on our tour of the Indian capital is the headquarters of Wieden + Kennedy, one of the country’s most renowned advertising agencies. I met with its two…
Last year, Greg Newton and his partner Donnie Jochum realized a horrifying fact: there was no longer a queer bookstore in New York… They immediately decided to remedy the…
This month Taschen is publishing a new book by the American photographer Ralph Gibson featuring some of his best nudes. Deftly composed and subtly provocative, these dreamlike and abstract photographs…
Nadav Kander’s photographs, Yangtze – The Long River at Flowers Gallery, New York, capture an authentic un-staged snapshot of people's lives in a region undergoing the most significant and broad…
Lawrence Schiller’s life has followed a larger trajectory than most and this summer will be no exception. Starting out as a successful photojournalist with Look, Life, Paris Match and more,…
Photographer Jonathan Becker celebrates the publication of his new book, “30 Years At Vanity Fair,” (Assouline, 2012) three decades after his portraits first appeared in the prototype for the magazine's…