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On this February 8th, James Dean would have been 80 years old. His life tragically ended on September 30th 1955 behind the wheel of his lightening fast Spyder, James Dean…

Betel Nut Beauties is a photoseries documenting the compelling phenomenon of roadside betel nut stands across Taiwan. A fixture on the streets of urban and suburban Taiwan, these brightly lit,…

The Gotha reunions on the world of photography, on the occasion of the 16th edition of the HSBC Photography Prize – one of the first “out of the ordinary” sponsors…

Born in Russia in 1979, Lev Ilirov followed his mother who had chosen to emigrate to Israel as many other Russians did during the 1990’s. Scenes from everyday life taken…

In 2006, Leon Herschritt celebrated 50 years in photography. To him we owe such iconic portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, the General De Gaulle, Salvador Dali, Catherine Deneuve, as well…

I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order…

The Maison Européenne de la Photographie is featuring a retrospective of Marc Trivier’s work, from the ’80’s to today. Born in 1960, Marc Trivier lives and works in Belgium. One…

After his first trip to Brazil in 1999, when Vincent Rosenblatt discovered Rio and the favelas that surrounded the official city, he returned from 2005 to 2010 to explore the…

In 1977, I was the head of the cultural department of Le Monde. An article by Hervé Guibert ran during the summer. From the Festival d’Avignon, he described…