In 1975, the French photographer Brigitte Lacombe, twenty-five at the time, was sent by ELLE magazine to cover the Cannes film festival, where she took several portraits of actors and…
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Two years ago, in March, Japan drew the world’s attention with millions of viewers glued to their television sets in disbelief as images of the tsunami that engulfed a 400…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) has just announced its annual Infinity Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. The institution will recognize seven honorees including…
On March 24 or 25, 2012, Frédéric Huijbregts took his own life, “aware that his illness would gradually rob him of his sight,” according to the Nogent Citoyen newspaper. On…
For the 6th year, the musée du quai Branly in Paris invites worldwide artists to apply to his subsidy program. The Photoquai’s Residency program concerns contemporaryphotographers from Africa, Asia, Oceania…
An exhibition at the Gagosian and a book published by MIT Press shows Ed Ruscha’s influence on contemporary artists, photographers and even writers who engaged his work in a stimulating…
"From Athena to Aphrodite" is a group exhibit which examines the representation of women in photography from 1864 to the present. Included in the show are photographs by Berenice Abbott,…
The 1970s work of John Batho is a milestone in the history of photography. At a time when the artform was dominated by black-and-white, Batho chose to consider color “for…
The WYNG Masters Award is an annual photography event organized by the WYNG Foundation (a non-profit project initiated to spark public awareness and support interest in socially relevant subjects) and…
For almost a year Thorsten Kirchhoff could not leave his neighbourhood. His radius of movement was severely limited for 12 months after an illness and a number of operations. A…