“There’s clearly a reason why kids are hanging out here all the time, everyone is here for s different reasons,” observes photographer Eric Johnson. There are so many stories in…
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Born in 1983 in Moscow. As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and…
20 years have passed since Serge Gainsbourg has taken his final bow. An immigrant’s son who loved to tangle up the French language, using slang and juggling words, he…
From February 25th through April 24th, the city of Montpellier will host the exhibition “Playgrounds, fields of tension : Figures in European urban photography since 1970”, at the Pavillion Populaire.Monika…
Meeting Frederick Edwin Bertin for the first time can be a rather out-of-time experience. With his gentleman education and delicate manners, his passion for the sculptors Riemenschneider and Houdon, the…
In September of 1952, a Russian immigrant in New York named Anatol Josepho sets up the first completely automatic photo studio. A small booth where it is possible to…
Technically speaking the so-called “White Nights” (Beliye Nochi) are not unique to St Petersburg, but only here the northern nights have received such a poetic acclaim. What could be more…
The French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is devoing an exhibition to Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974), one of the most famous travel writers of the 20th century. Thanks to…
In about 10 years, Nicola Erni has built up a unique collection on the 1960s, a vibrant era where European aristocracy mingled with painters, actors, photographers, musicians, writers, royalty and…
Frédéric Chaubin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed published by Taschen. Frédéric Chaubin is the editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. He reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet…