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There are few landscape photographs in Petersen’s body of work. His acute, tight, focused approach to a specific object rather than a broader context seems at odds with the requirement…

Petersen puts himself in intimate situations with people, framing so tightly as to cut off their hands and feet, or parts of their face. He takes the same approach with…

Petersen likes people, and his photographs take on a carnal and sensual aura through the simple choice of shooting  close-up. Faces can lie, but the body language he captures, in…

Nothing is strange in itself. Any object can seem by turns innocuous or strange or disturbing. Only the viewer can find the eerie in a harmless wooden horse or an…

Barbara and Gertrud is a chapter that has been rediscovered, reinterpreted, a fragment of a contact sheet from Café Lehmitz, with which is has little in common. The light is…

Anders Petersen is in charge of every step in the creation of a photograph: shooting, printing, and the layout of both his books and exhibitions. The latter is not simply…

Paris, August 1942. Rumor had it that a place for women existed somewhere in the city. A place of freedom, where they could drink, smoke and love each other. A…

The exhibition Rússia Sagrada (Sacred Russia) at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS) runs through December 11. Organized by the Russian Ministry of Culture, this exhibition brings together 20…

“Pobeda” gallery for the first time took part in the festival Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam in September 2013. One of the world’s most prestigious photography museums FOAM is the…