At first glance, we might think that contemporary photographers like Martin Parr, Rineke Dijkstra and Maisie Broadhead have nothing in common with classical painters like Thomas Gainsborough, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres or…
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Karine Moge discovered Bagbazar Tarun Bayam Samity » or « Bagbazar Gym » by accident. During her wanderings in the heart of Kolkata, the Bengali name for India’s third largest…
In the Middle Ages, parchment was a rare and valuable commodity. Copyists transcribed new texts over old manuscripts that had been erased with pumice. The result of this process was…
The exhibition Corps révélés is an exploration of the body as erotic symbol in the Soviet era, from Perestroika until to today, through its representation in photography. Featuring…
François-Xavier Seren, photographer and reporter for more than thirty years passed away on December 21, 2012. In 1980, François-Xavier Seren began his career as a photographer. His black-and-white both explore…
Yasmina Khadra has always shown a deep interest in anything that relates to his native country, and has expressed himself many times through newspapers articles and novels, despite the…
The 77-year old British photojournalist Don McCullin recently announced his plan to travel to Syria on assignment. Why did he get involved in this mess? If I have to be…
The third issue of the Magazine Gamma/Rapho has just come out for the iPad. It features a video by Jean-Claude Francolon on orphans of the Vietnam War, Vanessa Paradis, Keystone…
Three portfolios. This is the first selection by Anne de Mondenard. Historian of photography, Mondenard recently curated the Modernisme ou modernité, Les photographes du cercle de Gustave Le Gray exhibition…
When I traveled to Ukraine in 2009/10, I wanted to make a portrait of the country today. But I arrived yesterday. I remember an old man standing before a shopping…