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Obsessed with the issue of consumer society, I stood on the sidelines of the Tour de France to see the show everyone was waiting for: the caravane publicitaire, a…
This is my latest project called Déjà Vu which refer to movies where the photographers are present at a moment when they are taking photo. We were never shown…
In Beauvais, travel is easy. The city’s airport serves many European cities. Every year, the photography collective Diaphane sends photographers to discover the city of their choice, challenging them to…
The French Minister of Culture and Communication, Aurélie Filippeti, has announced the end of a law—’La Loi Guigou’—that limits who and what photographers in this country can photograph, and where…
Somerset Stories, Fivepenny Dreams reflects on the sense of belonging and identity connected to Venetia’s childhood home. Exploring the haunts of her youth and the lives of the current inhabitants,…
What do people do behind their closed doors, hedges, fences and gates? Unlike in the Anglo-Saxon countries, the French close themselves in. For a long time I asked…
Before me a snow-covered bridge, the bluish evening light and wolf tracks, I have spent the past two days in the forbidden zone of Chernobyl. I didn’t want to come…
Only eight years after Nazi Germany’s surrender, Josef Heinrich Darchinger began his career as a photographer in the Federal Republic of Germany. Major cities reduced to rubble during the War…