Jan Banning was born in The Netherlands in 1954, from Dutch-East-Indies immigrant parents. He studied social and economic history at the University of Nijmegen and has been working as a…
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Marion Pranal and Philippe Jacquier are two passionate people. They have not always been gallerists, before founding the Gallery La Lumière des Roses. They confess: They know nothing about photography!…
We feature today the letters N to Z from Nini Patte en l’Air through Zeppelin. Between these two letters, thirteen small master works quite unknown, like the class photograph of…
As once an Angeleno in Paris, and now a Parisian in New York, really my mind is stuck in the stars. Photography has become a true passion and within it,…
On April 17th, a series of tornadoes struck six southern states in the United States. On the streets of Lester, Alabama, a woman collected photographs belonging to the victims…
Springtime 1956, the arrival at Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot of 1,200 French people from Indochina (of which 740 children) transformed the village’s military camp into a “Little Vietnam”. The village was supposed to…
1.6 million children across the UK live their daily lives in severe poverty (30%). This is more than in most other European countries. But Western poverty is often difficult…
For 15 years, François-Xavier Seren worked on aristocracy and the French bourgeoisie. His pictures were featured in Point de Vue, Vogue Homme, L’Eventail and Dynastie. Here is a glimpse of…
Charles Moore (1931- 2010) is the most important civil rights era photographer. His searing images of conflict between demonstrators and law enforcement helped propel landmark civil rights legislation.…
“Masturbation is not permitted during the entire duration of the exhibition.” This is what the invitation to François-Marie Banier’s exhibition in Stuttgart at Abtart informed. Provocative certainly, but full of…