At the age of four, Koto Bolofo left South Africa as a political refugee, and did not return until 1992, two years after Nelson Mandela was released from prison. The first thing…
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The death of a friend leaves me with little desire to comment on the past week. My friend was always quick to react. I wonder where in the world he…
The hats of Parisian milliner Madame Paulette have appeared in countless scenes over time. From the 1940 through the 80s, Paulette’s works sat perched atop the likes of everyone from…
This week on the web:BringBackOurGirls and a controversial web campaign, tributes to Camille Lepage, Cannes 2014: when Wim Wenders films Sebastiao Salgado, an interview with Ryan McGinley, nudes in nature…
The beautiful and dense catalogue for the Laurent Miller exhibition in Angers includes the series on display at the museum. The exception is a series absent from the Angers retrospective, the mysterious Tempestaires (2003-2008),…
Aditya Khosla, a computer science student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has just published an article explaining how he developed an algorithm to predict the popularity of an…
“What if Latin America was nothing more than a European invention?” asks Olivier Compagnon in the introductory text to América Latina 1960-2013 (Thames & Hudson). Perhaps then it would be a matter…
The story of Nan Goldin and New York goes back to 1977 when, diploma in hand, she landed in the vibrant, cosmopolitan atmosphere of the American megacity. Drugs, rock n’ roll, punks,…
This week on the web: the tragic death of Camille Lepage, Apocalypse Now in Syria, video interviews with World Press Photo Award winners, Egyptian nostalgia from Denis Dailleux, a beautiful…
Voltaire wrote that the best books were half-written by their readers. I’m no Voltaire, but I agree with this idea to looking at photographs thoser I selected for exemple. No…