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Mehdi Meddaci was a revelation in this year’s Recontres d’Arles, where he presented a sound-video installation on five simultaneous screens. This impressive work was a striking visual and sensory experience.…
The Galerie Perrotin presents the new solo exhibition of Sophie Calle Pour la dernière et pour la première fois. A set of 14 recent films entitled Voir la mer (2011)…
First exhibited in Tokyo in 1979, Kohei Yoshiyuki’s twin projects The Park and Love Hotel ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance. Yoshiyuki was a young commercial…
Arnaud Pyvka uses his camera to frame reality and transform it, enjoying surreal visual collisions, happy accidents , his images bounce off each other. From portraiture to reportage and fashion…
For me photography is a way to understand and accept the world. It’s an ‘excuse’ to travel and meet the most incredible people. Light is fundamental. Everything is transformed by…
The world as a whole may have come around somewhat to the idea that their exist a whole spectrum of sexualities from heterosexual to homosexual and beyond. In Africa, a…
In the small town of Jogiakarta, Central Java, there is a community of threehundred Muslim transgenders that are trying to defy gravity! They gather together to pray Hallah, they adopt…
"Transportraits" is a series of 20 x 24 inch portraits of transgendered men, photographed against an oil-painted backdrops that I create using the landscape painting instructions from Bob Ross', The…