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…
Greetings from the Colonies Safia Belmenouar and Marc Combier collectionsThe postcard is part of our history, our imagination. It is also, given its extremely wide circulation, a privileged reinforcement of…
My collection of decorative and utilitarian 3-dimensional objects enhanced with photographic images reflects photography’s shifting identity, one that has long encompassed vernacular and fine art expressions, a convergence of high…
It is with great satisfaction that MOKBA is at last able to do justice to an invaluable artistic legacy, hitherto unknown to specialists and the public alike, in presenting here…
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’…