As per the Orthodox Jewish tradition the Messiah (the Prophet) will arrive riding on a white donkey. A few years ago, as I was photographing near the Dead Sea a…
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Portraits represent the core of the work by Laurent Camut. Besides drawing, he has been taking photographs since he was twenty years old. Through this activity he has found answers…
Almost immediately upon his arrival in Cuba for the first time, American photographer Michael Dweck was swept up in a cultural bohemia reminiscent of 1930’s Paris salons. His unprecedented (and…
In their respective works, Mathilde Lloret and Francesco Giusti tackle the question on the staging of the self and identity. The extravagance of the outfit and the discrepancy with the…
Although Japan’s March 11 triple disaster is long gone from front-page news, conditions there remain dire. Tokyo-based, Czech photographer Martin Hladik is hoping to maintain awareness of the disaster’s effects,…
For one year, in the French département of the Somme, between Albert, Péronne and Chaulnes, I was with the young people of a forgotten region “where the poppies have nicely…
In the beginning, there is the journey. There is the instinctive desire to realise, but not only that. There is also the desire to recount the journey in…
From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les années folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the…
Dorothy Shoes is a 32 year old French photographer. She started out in photography in 2005; her images quickly traveled the world thanks to exhibitions organized in many countries in…
For twenty years, Stephen Shames has been taking pictures of children and adolescents in one of New York’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, The Bronx. The first pictures were commissioned in…