I arrived in Paris on 30 May 1972. I stayed in a little hotel in Montmartre, 14 francs a night. Just as my money was running out I got a…
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Things got simple: a Contax 35mm camera, one Norman flash, one Polaroid 180 camera and one 35mm lens. For everything. This meant I could travel light and keep things as simple…
I moved to New York. My pictures didn’t seem to be in great demand at this moment so I spent a lot of time doing graphic design and typography. But…
In 1962 I went to the royal college of art to study graphic design. I have always loved doing graphics and up till today I still do graphic design jobs.…
When I left the royal college of art in 1965, I totally abandoned my graphic design / painter training. I needed something more direct and emotional - that was music.…
Here is the third part of “I remember” by Bernard Plossu, since the early 1970s, he has photographed his friends photographers. His rare portraits were never shown, regularly The Eye…
In this series of photographs entitled Doigts, Pollution, Philippe Durand examines the surface of windows in the streets of Brussels: not much, but there’s a lot to see. We can…
Vik Muniz, currently featured in our sale Signature Works, a Brazilian-born photographer, is known for creating photographs that can be best described as illusionary. Initially a sculptor, it was a…
When Laurence Vecten launched her first calendar in 2012, she chose 4 Japanese photographs, one for each season. Last year, twelve different photographs illustrated each month. For the 2016 calendar,…
December 14th 2015 will mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Dayton Agreement, the treaty that brought an end to the Bosnian War. This new book, the result…