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ELSE is the magazine for the other photography. A photography considered not only for itself, but that manifests itself in series, collections, brought together through the eye of the photographer,…
In 1914, Oskar Barnack, an employee at the Wetzlar optical factory in Germany, built the first Leica. The Leitz was the first small format camera, using 35mm film to produce a…
Paris has been stormy in more ways than one, with its streets filled with protesters against gay marriage. The massacre continues in Syria, and in Copenhagen, God didn’t save Marius…
Every human being reacts differently and I don’t think there are two similar visions of the same image explains Marloes Krijnen, director and founder of the Foam Fotografie Museum in Amsterdam,…
Discovered by the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles in 1991 while still a student at the École Louis Lumière, Patrick Messina soon became one of the best portrait photographers of his generation. Working for Télérama, Libération and Le Monde,…
Graffiti is the ultimate expression of the ephemeral, the here today, gone tomorrow game of cat and mouse with the Vandal Squad, property owners, and other graff writers, who move…
We’ve seen a lot of Sochi recently. Many photographers have set out to capture the absurd political and infrastructural projects surrounding the Winter Olympics, which just opened in Russia. The…
“Do you want to see my sexy pictures?” Maripol asked Adèle Jancovici, handing her a card box, adding, “No one has seen them. Swear you won’t tell anyone about this.”…
Three of the 28 photos, almost one-tenth, are of the same event, the protests against France’s recent decision to allow gay marriage. It’s a sad, perverse pleasure for me. All…