Zoos are born with intent informative to know and understand animal breeds otherwise unattainable. I wonder today what sense the life of an animal that is born, grows and dies…
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For a long time, I was afraid of letting color into my photographs, a bit like sailors who will sail into the heart of a storm, but not knowing how…
The subway's familiar Brutalism has been giving way to stainless steel and layers of angled glass. I miss much of the character that's been polished away, but find myself captivated…
“You do not belong to anywhere until you have a corpse in the ground…" writes Gabriel García Márquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude, explaining the relationship Colombians have with…
As legend has it, when gods roamed the earth, a few drops of eternity were lost in the Ganges... From January to March 2013, millions of Hindu pilgrims came to…
"A burning city. Thick smoke clouds fill the air with an intense smell. History always repeats itself: as at Nero’s times, a devastating fire run through the streets, through the…
6 portfolios. This is the selection by Agathe Gaillard, for her third week. Agathe Gaillard is one of the major figures of French photography. In 1975, with her husband, Jean-Philippe…
For its 5th anniversary, Fabrique de Regard gave the artist Flavie Pinatel the carte blanche to produce a film about its work, with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation. Watch…
Not once since I began writing this column have I felt as sad as I feel right now. What must be happening today so that newspapers I read—newspapers which supposedly…
August 28, 1963, marked a great day for democracy in America. On that day nearly fifty years ago, more than 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC,…