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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…

Los Angeles as the edge of the earth, as the last stretch of land before it falls off into the Pacific Ocean, and slips away to sea, carried in and…

The dual emotions of aloneness and melancholy seem to be a relevant concept when grasping the minimalist abstracts of Jurek Wajdowicz's pictures. To say photographs at once defies the visual…

Afghan Gold by Luke Powell, published by Steidl, comes in a box that offers the reader two separate trips. A large, horizontal book, as precious and delicate to handle as a medieval…

She was there in the heyday of magazines like Télérama, De l’Air and M, Le Magazine du Monde, illustrating the articles with photos that told fantastic little tales. Elene Usdin was awarded the 2006 Prix Picto…

Éditions Sekoya has just published Vivre la France, a photo book that combines two sets of portraits taken a century apart. The first set dates back to World War I.…

The slightly rough cover of La Montagne Dorée, with its fragile paper and spartan layout, make it look like an instruction manual. Self-published by Myriam Ziehli, the book was shortlisted for…

It’s a very long press review this week—41 photographs—so I’ll keep this introduction short. Plenty of photos from the Central African Republic, including a remarkable report by Michael Zumstein in…