PhotographyPublications

As the World Cup approaches in Brazil, Damiani has published Olympic Favela by German photographer Marc Ohrem-Leclef. This series of photographs documents the citizens of disadvantaged communities  of Rio de Janeiro—the “favelas”—whose lives…

Putting together a weekly press review gives me a mordant view of current events. I defend the total subjectivity of my choices, which incidentally are for people of both the…

Roger Ballen’s newest monograph, Asylum of the Birds (Thames & Hudson) is a revelation, a vision of the inside of the mind in black and white—and all shades in between. There is…

2014 marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock. Baron Wolman was Rolling Stone magazine’s first photographer. In 1969 he attended what would become the most famous music festival of all time.…

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…

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),…