In the years following World War II, there were photo exhibition in railways compartment that traveled thru France , free for all to see. The exhibition featured the most beautiful…
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By the time that Médéric Mieusement (1840-1905) approached the Minister of Education with a project to photograph France’s historical monuments, he already had a considerable experience photographing architecture. He made…
Sylvain Stym-Popper (1906-1969) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris, earning an architecture degree in 1932. A history buff, he began his career as chief architect of the historical…
In 1936, hired by the Keystone agency, André Kertész left Paris to settle in the United States. The move proved difficult. Apart from a few photographs in Vogue and…
It is photographs from the series "Whisper". It is a small village in the south of the Pskov region in Russia. During the World War II the German line…
I always wanted to meet my father.The last time I saw him I was three years old. I decided to reflect on this idea using photography. I do not…
I photograph things that seem to have a particular silence around them. The subjects might be considered common objects or ordinary scenes but for me they are completely mysterious and…
This twelve image edit ranges from 2002 through 2012 from an ongoing body of street work called Dear New Yorker. Photography for me is a hunt for truth and meaning,…
Widely promoted by Parisian Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, the leading painter of the Barbizon school in the mid-nineteenth century, the forest of Fontainebleau famously attracted and inspired artist and photographers alike. Used…
An architect by training, I am deeply inspired by the kind of “non-pedigreed” architecture explored by Bernard Rudofsky. After working extensively in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, I live…