A century ago, youth implied a vast clearly defined phase of transition from child to adult. According to this, youth ended with the entry into the working life or marriage.…
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In this rapidly changing world in which career and financial successes are revered, perhaps even idolized, communities, as well as the concept of personal identities and how they are presented…
This work was shot in a Ukrainian city founded in 2007 by a group of German investors willing to speculate on the economy of sex tourism. It is a growing…
Over the last 10 months, the focus of my work has been the performance of various permutations of the wedding portrait. The repetitious act creates multiple generic couples and brings…
The Yann Le Mouel auction house is organizing a sale of photographs for the Rencontres d’Arles photo festival. A total of 136 lots will be sold in the festival offices…
Seven collectors are presenting their treasures this year at Arles. For each of them, festival director François Hébel and his team produced a video interview. We've decided to share them…
In China, one genre seems to prefigure the panoramic photograph: portraits of emperors or high dignitaries, alone or as a couple, then shown again with their descendents. These vertical ‘accumulations’…
Throughout the modern era, photography has been used to catalogue the world and its people. Photographers and institutions have struggled laboriously to arrange, to order, and to catalogue this infinitude…
In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Revisionist histories of photography as recorded via…
It took awhile in my own collecting to have confidence in my own ‘eye’ to be image driven as opposed to being caught up in the reputation of the artist.…