In the 1920s, Baron Adolphe de Meyer, nicknamed “the Debussy of photography,” worked as a photographer for Condé Nast Publications, where he was commissioned by the cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden…
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Somewhere amid clouds of smoke and alcoholic fumes, artists, painters, poets, writers and thinkers discuss and remake the world, finding their inspiration in the Parisian bistros, turning them into their…
Henriette Theodora Marcovitch, the muse and companion of Pablo Picasso, better known as Dora Maar, was one of the most important Surrealist photographers. She spent time with André Breton, Georges…
In 1936, John Rawlings joined British Vogue as an assistant to photographers Cecil Beaton, Horst P. Horst et Irving Penn. In 2001, Kohle Yohannan, an archivist at Condé Nast,…
Born in San Francisco in 1895, Louise Dahl-Wolfe took her first pictures in 1923. In 1936, she joined Carmel Snow, Alexey Brodovitch and Diana Vreeland, respectively, the editor-in-chief, artistic director…
Purgatory Road takes its title from an actual place where I live during the summer months, a wooded region in rural New York that is divided by an infamous dirt-covered…
Leprosy has been for many centuries, in Ethiopia, a sickness with enormous social implications. The physical consequences of catching such an illness has forced many infected by the disease into…
After the very important decison of the UN , it might be possible for Gaza to have a new glimpse of hope for its future. Seen from the inside…
The idea behind this series was to challenge myself. Photographing a celebrity isn’t always easy, but they are usually people with a strong presence. I wanted to test myself from…