At the occasion of the presentation of the program of the festival Visa pour l'Image, Jean-François Leroy wrote this noteworthy text, terribly true. A few days ago I was having dinner…
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His friends called him "Nounours" (Teddy). Henri Bureau died the day before yesterday. He was an impetuous, flamboyant, big-mouthed bon vivant. But he was above all a great photographer, a…
Paolo Roversi is one of the biggest names in fashion photography. He’s brought the artform a very personal touch by using a wooden 20x25cm Deardorff camera with bellows, like some 19th-century…
The famous printer Jean-Yves Brégand died on May 17th, 2014. Ollivier Hersart, a photographer and longtime friend of Jean-Yves Brégand who supported him in the final weeks of his illness, wrote…
The forms of nature are so varied that no attempts to capture them are alike. Those by Jean Gaumy in the series D’Après Nature tends toward abstraction and allow us to see them in…
Dali Prefecture is the former capital of the Nanzhao Kingdom (8th-9th century) and the Buddhist Dali Kingdom (AD 937-1253). With a population of 3.6 Million inhabitants, 30% of Bai ethnic…
As the war in Syria drags on and attention is drawn elsewhere, more than 3.2 million Syrian refugees have fled into neighboring countries, including 1.2 million to Lebanon. Their situation…
On the 20th anniversary of his death, a powerful portrait of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana—including many previously unpublished images—taken during their last formal photo shoot before his suicide. In August…
With his photographs of the Spanish Civil War and the Normandy invasion, the photojournalist Robert Capa has always been considered a giant of black-and-white photo reportage. But how much do we really…