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The Anders Petersen exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is wonderful. It was curated by Anne Biroleau, one of the greatest curators working in contemporary photography. We have asked…

Transformation does not mean chaos. There is a main theme running throughout Petersen’s work, and whether it’s plain to see, or whether it goes under and reappears like the flow…

For nearly ten years, Petersen has worked in confined spaces, with people who have been voluntarily and involuntarily detained in prisons, retirement homes and psychiatric hospitals. His approach is less…

“I believe that I’m not telling a story about a space, but about a feeling, an emotion, and the surrounding four walls are just the surface [...] My work in…

What does it mean to call something “intimate?” Some of Petersen’s photographs could be seen as “stolen,” the result of an intrusion. But they’re nothing of the sort. His approach…

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…

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…