Riva Press presents Famadihana a series on the “turning of the bones” ceremony unique to the Malgasy people of Madagascar. Ancestors are central to their conception of life, death and…
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They have very little power of speech, if none at all. Their particular body movements are an expression of their personality and seem to come from a make-believe and poetic…
Franck Boutonnet, of the photography collective ITEM, traveled to Argentina to create “Conscienza,” a photographic essay documenting a poetic and political vision of Argentina, a country unafraid to confront its…
To go away. To leave everything behind. To emigrate to another land. The dream land. The welcoming land whose wealth holds out its hand. Those who exile themselves from their…
In the beginning, there is the journey. There is the instinctive desire to realise, but not only that. There is also the desire to recount the journey in…
Stan Guigui, member photographer of VU' agency covered the women of the Cabaret New Burlesque in their Parisian shows for two months: “With the Cabaret New Burlesque, I felt like…
This week brought scenes of social unrest provoked by the international financial crisis. In the United States, protestors occupied New York City’s financial district in what had been, until recently,…
Fred Herzog purchased his first camera in 1950 and began working in color to do what he describes as “intimate journalism in a city environment. They call that street photography…
This conversation was held on March 3, 2011. Denis Darzacq : Hello Jean-Christian Bourcart, photographer and filmmaker, your artistic process is quite unusual, both diverse and unforgiving. Can you…
The psychiatric hospital La Borda, located in the centre of Buenos Aires, is the most important of all of Argentina. It is comprised of 14 blocks and 22 houses. The…