A return to my native country 50 years after its independence, 20 years after leaving it. How do I photograph it without being too obvious? The Africa we’re used to…
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Photography is a mental state for me. I came to it through travel. Conversely, the static nature of the image has the power to transport the viewer. In the rich…
According to the Romanian philosopher Cioran, Dor, the Romanian word for “nostalgia,” refers to a kind of melancholy similar to the famously untranslatable concept of saudade, a deep longing for…
This series was taken during a long photographic journey through South America that Damien Guillaume took between March and September 2011. It is being exhibited here for the first time…
From town to town with a bag slung over his shoulder, Christopher Héry found his subjects by walking without any particular direction. He only takes pictures with his model’s permission,…
From July 2007 to August 2011, I traveled several times to Japan. I had long been fascinated with the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun. Throughout these travels,…
‘Scheltens & Abbenes: Unfolded’ is the first retrospective exhibition of the photographer couple Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes to be held in a museum. Their oeuvre consists of still lifes…
The Museum für Fotographie in Berlin presents a major exhibition of postwar Japanese photography entitled Metamorphosis of Japan after the War. Photography 1945 – 1964, curated by Tsuguo Tada and…
Walking the decadent streets of New York from the 1970s to the present day, Hank O’Neal lingered before the graffiti covering its walls. His images form an impressive archive of…