Not long ago, the filmmaker and photographer Jerry Schatzberg feared he would not be praised in his lifetime. However, last May, the Cannes Film Festival honored him by using his…
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At Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, the exhibition Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs. Linda McCartney (1941 – 1998) was an active and admired photographer for over three decades. Her…
Night Vision: Photography After Dark, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art features photography of the 20th century inspired by the pleasure, danger, and allure of the night. For…
What’s becoming increasingly apparent from the history of Indian photography is the preoccupation with the family portrait. The considerable formalities of the studio portrait have given way to the snapshot…
The title of the exhibition Jusqu’ici tout va bien…#2 (Everything’s alright until now) is taken from Mathieu Kassovitz’s film La Haine (Hate). In this series, Florent Mattei creates a sort…
At the beginning of the 1980’s, Claude Nori would create the photographic flirt that was in search of a fragile and ephemeral happiness captured by his camera as it caressed…
Gazelle Samizay’s series Upon My Daughter is about marriage. It is equally about being suffocated by the traditions and expectations that come along with the supposedly sacred union.…
In early June, 2011, the Djemaa El Fna square in Marrakesh celebrated it’s 10th anniversary as a UNESCO Heritage of Humanity Masterpiece in the presence of French Culture Minister Frédéric…
We wander through the streets, get lost in the souks, slaloming with the motorcycles and donkey-pulled buggies. This is Ben Youssef, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed despite the major…