Founder of the Rencontres d’Arles festival in 1970, Lucien Clergue was the first photographer, with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, to be offered a chair at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut…
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Wherever they live, they live off the beaten path. And once they’re there, they build. With their families or on their own, they transform themselves into architects. Tree houses, cave…
La Bouilladisse is an administrative district, or commune, of 6000 people in the Bouches-du-Rhône region of France. “There are more than 36,000 communes in France and each of them can…
Photography books are as much works of public discourse, as they are personal albums. The more an image is considered, the more familiar it becomes until the line between Us…
On a rainy and cloudy Monday morning, with a post-Paris Photo mood, I headed to the Somerset House to visit Real Venice. An exhibition organised by the charity Venice in…
For the past ten years, the New York photographer Platon has photographed the world’s economic and political leaders for the most prestigious magazines. Greece is a personal work, a return…
Today’s Thomas Dorn pictures are currently being presentd by the Markowicz Gallery for Art Basel Miami Beach. “The Yoke” means “the link” in sanskrit.…
Harry Benson is now represented by Contour Getty Images. Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson began his career at the Hamilton Advertiser before moving to London's Fleet Street where he worked…
What does that means taking photographs? And at the end, what does a portrait says? These two questions are at the center of any work of research, an experiment constructing…