“I worked a lot in Egypt, especially in Cairo, between 1987 and 2011. At the time, I focused on the older neighborhoods, the café culture and nightlife. I decided to…
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The title of the first posthumous work from Chris Hondros is well chosen. Testament is a compilation of his archives collected by his family, friends and agency, including: Christina Piaia, whom he planned to…
Fashion photographs – glamorous, provocative, beautiful, accomplished, magical – have always been associated with some of the most famous names in the history of photography, such as Edward Steichen, Horst…
Marguerite Duras and Hélène Bamberger met in Trouville in 1980 and became friends until the writer’s death. Accompanying the her, Bamberger photographed the world Duras recreated in houses in Paris, Neauphle-le-Château and Trouville.…
Roger Ballen is one of the most original image makers of the twenty-first century. Asylum of the Birds showcases his iconic photographs, which were all taken entirely within the confines of a house…
Woman as madman. As the grotesque. The primal and primitive underbelly that society erases all but the most glaring trace. She who is disturbed is disturbing for her lack of…
In 1980, as a young photographer at Paris Match, I was called in with my sidekick, Bernard Wis, to see our boss, Roger Thérond. Thinking we were in trouble, we walked…
At the border of art and fashion, Kourtney Roy combines fiction and self-portraiture in her too-perfect women encapsulated in the banality of another era. Immersed in their imaginations, these sublime women are…