Last year, the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival was a disappointment. There was no clear vision for the festival, far too many exhibitions, high ticket prices, and an overrepresentation of Magnum…
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To launch our new photography publishing house, we selected a symbolic date, a symbolic place, and a symbolic subject. Many people worried about the supposed Mayan prophecies regarding the change…
During a recent conference on the Digital Revolution, Aline Manoukian, president of ANI (National Association of Iconographers) spoke about the “new rules of photography in the French press.” The…
On September 12 and 13, the photography portfolio website Photoshelter organized a conference to discuss the links among photography, technology and commerce. A dozen speakers were on the program each…
Lara Khaldi invited me to produce work for Jerusalem 2011 on the theme “About Language”. I had been working on landscapes for several years, with Landscape of Darkness, Area…
I began taking pictures in the early 2000s following an intense period of questioning in my life. I started keeping a photographic journal. Day after day, in a kind of…
I started this project in 2008 during a trip to Upper Egypt. I thought of the place as the only centralized place that brought together every type of Egyptian. People…
Sarah Pickering is a British photographer who researches truth versus verisimilitude through the medium of photography, though never manipulating her images. This week, she presents her series about forgeries, "Art…
Tomio Seike turned 67 in 2010. His awareness of unavoidable disappearances freed his perception of simple things he would never see again, like the ocean view from his Brighton apartment.…
There is a lot to be said about Greece these days. It has, in the last year or so, taken the biggest blow from the financial collapse generated in the…