Jonas Cuénin, one of our New York contributors, has a passion for Irving Penn, and in particular one of the photographer’s most famous series: Small Trades. Jonas’ web series, “Of…
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At the Moscow Photo Biennial, Pieter Hugo, 36, stands out from his peers with a powerful subject: the hyena. Its monstrous appearance. Its domestication. On the fringes of African society,…
The theme of this year’s Moscow Photo Biennial is the road. Mikhael Subotzky’s road leads us to a prison, one located right in the middle of an intersection, right in…
One hundred years ago, on the night of April 14 to 15, 1912, the White Star Line’s transatlantic liner, whose construction began in Belfast in 1909, sank after hitting an…
Not so long ago, I was in Montrouge, in your studio, not far from Annette and Francine. Seated at a desk fit for a head of state, I…
In 1988, Abe Fraindlich was commissioned by the Titanic Survivors Society to photograph the living survivors. Around ten came to the photo shoot. Here are those photographs. No one pictured…
Swiss humor is hardly one of the country’s most popular exports. But the artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both Swiss, despite their names) have made a breakthrough in Moscow.…
Moscow has grown increasingly enamored of its Stalinist past. Hence the idea for this exhibition, which seems straight out of a socialist realist propagandist’s wet dream. Vladislav Mikosha (1909 –…
Contrary to the (rather dry) title of the exhibition, at Stop No. 2, no one gets off— they have already left, and a long time ago. Sergei Shestakov is fascinated…
The Pobeda (“Victory”) gallery is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the work of a young photographer, Alexey Kiselev. This is his first solo exhibition. Why him? “It’s a combination of…