For the 2012 edition of the Printemps de Septembre, the curator, historian and art critic Paul Ardenne decided to present ‘History is Mine!’ It is a history that has been…
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Founded in Cahors, France, in 1991, the Printemps de Cahors changed its location and season in 2001, moving to Toulouse and becoming the Printemps de Septembre. We revisited the history…
Known for his studio photos in which he dresses up in costumes of the 1970s to revisit the stereotypes of glamor magazines, Samuel Fosso is taking a step forward with…
Gohar Dashti, an Iranian photographer, is presenting in Toulouse the series Today’s Life and War. She stages a young couple going about its daily activities amid reconstructed scenes of war:…
The first thing that charms me about Peter Hay Halpert’s gallery is the intimacy of the space: it’s a cross between a gallery and an apartment, and through the open…
A Visual Diary of Jaime Ferreyros is about the everyday journey of a man who finds himself in deep connectedness with his iPhone... every step of his way. This show…
‘Hervé’ wasn’t his real name. It was given to him when he joined the Resistance. As a young man, he was politically committed, courageous, adventurous and free. After the war,…
In the aftermath of World War II, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Chim and Rodger decided to divide the world among themselves and document it in a comprehensive and sincere way, free now…
This week I selected for you 25 pictures, three of which could be described as repugnant—not the photographs themselves, of course, but what they represent. It should be easy to…