Bruce Davidson began photography at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University and was later drafted into the army…
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On 6 August 1945, the US government dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This was the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon, and along with the bombing of Nagasaki…
William Carter, born in 1934 in Los Angeles, is a photographer, writer and part-time jazz musician. He has exhibited and published widely, and his work is held in public and…
Ernst Haas was born in Vienna in 1921, and took up photography after the war. His early Austrian work on returning prisoners of war brought him to the attention of…
Stephen Waddell was born in 1968 at Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents were involved with the arts and he took courses at Simon Fraser University with Jeff Wall. He began…
Fouad Elkoury was born in 1952 in Paris, and today lives between Paris and Beirut. After studying architecture in London in 1979, Elkoury turned to photography and depicted Beirut during…
Jean-François Camp, the director of the Dupon Photo Lab, is a great admirer of Sacha. He decided to expose her pictures, and here he explains: "As a young photographer, I…
It was the opening to be at this past Thursday, September 15th, where Albert Watson exposed his recent nudes at the Acte2 gallery. Alexandre Percy was greeting among champagne…
Ron Galella was born in the United States on January 10th, 1931. Considered the most famous and controversial celebrity photographer, he has also been baptized as the “Paparazzi…
Albert Watson has made his mark as one of the world's most successful fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades, while creating his own art along the way.…