This week on the Web: Agence France-Presse on Instagram, Larry’s Clark’s youths skate and surf under the sun, David Lekach and Anthony Acosta, the sensual fashion photography of Arnaud Lajeunie, Catherine Deneuve celebrates her 70th birthday, and the Ballerina project in New York City.
► L’AFP on Instagram
The Agence France-Presse is expanding its distribution network on the web with an Instagram account. “The goal is to get our name out to the public,” says Stéphane Arnaud, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of AFP-Photo, whose department is looking to tone down its serious and strictly news-oriented image. “We’re going to be posting the images that photographers from the agency have posted on their own Instagram accounts. Afpphoto will offer viewers a vision of the world that is more ‘magazine’ and less breaking news, with photographs taken from AFP commissions.”
[Photo 01 & 02]
http://www.fisheyemagazine.fr/afp-sur-instagram
http://instagram.com/afpphoto#
Skate, Surf and Sun:
► Larry Clark and Parisian Youth in The Smell of Us
Its been almost twenty years since Larry Clark inspired a reckoning of street cinema with his 1995 cult-classic Kids –
Clark aims to drag us through his new socio-cinematic experiment entitled The Smell Of Us with another cast of youthful teens who have no recognisable on-screen presence. Right now the film has no release date and is ambiguously synopsised on IMDB as ’A group of self-destructive skateboarders in Paris.’ Ranging from 19 to 21 years old the cast are oddly beautiful, in a rough, powerful, mildly-malnourished, half-naked, substance abuse kind of way.
Produced by Darjeeling/Morgane Production, Thomas Kimmerlin films A summer with the French kids of Larry Clark, a series of short documentary videos which focus on the making of The Smell Of Us, from behind the scenes. Broken down into 8 episodes of 6 minutes each, the web documentary depicting the Parisian protagonists is aired on ARTE Creative every Thursday.
Watch the first episode below and click the link to continue viewing.
► Interview with Larry Clark’s young actors. Photos by David Ledoux.
[Photo 03, 04 & 05]
http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/19723/1/larry-clark-s-new-kids
► David Lekach, Los Angeles: A visual journal of Los Angeles by the young photographer, with the beach, surfing and youth, has just been published on the new site for up-and-coming photographers, Stampsy, which wonderfully showcases photos through parallax scrolling.
[Photo 06, 07, 08 & 09]
http://stampsy.com/trending/7160
His website and on David Lekach on Instagram
► Anthony Acosta, Rolling Through the Shadows with skaters
An interview with Anthony Acosta by Mark Whiteley, skateboarder and Leica photographer, provides us with the next installment of his interview series “Rolling Through the Shadows.” This series takes a closer look at the seemingly unlikely collision of skateboarding and M photography from the perspective of the skaters and photographer
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http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/rolling-through-the-shadows-anthony-acosta/
Anthony’s website and Instagram
► The Unexpected Magic of Jessica Wolfelsperger’s Photographs
Berlin-based Swiss photographer Jessica Wolfelsperger likes to capture the soul, builds fairy tales and tries to see the spirit of fashion in her work. Her sense of beauty plays the main role when it comes to describing her style, and at the same time her art projects are always something more than just a visual pleasure. Her book “A letter to you, I’ve never sent” is all about the process of letting go, where she deals with the emotions of an ending love. “Letting go is a process and in my opinion it is one of the most difficult things in life but it is important to move on.” Read the rest of the interview here.
[Photos 13, 14 & 15]
http://www.cargocollective.com/jessicawolfelsperger
http://www.wolferinagoes.tumblr.com
► Fashion: Sensual Parisian Photography at its Best with Arnaud Lajeunie
Parisian photographer Arnaud Lajeunie recently exhibited his ‘Water Meets Colour/Colour Meets Water’ series at the Hyères International festival of Fashion and Photography. Now, as he gears up to move over to London and the seventh issue of L’imparfaite comes out later this year, Dazed Digital caught up with Arnaud to discuss the tensions in erotic photography and why water is such a powerful, unpredictable tool for him to shoot with.
[Photos 16-17-18]
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/19986/1/sensual-parisian-photography-at-its-best
► Catherine Deneuve: 70 Years in 70 Photographs
As a young woman, Catherine Dorléac didn’t dream of the movies. It was her sister who pushed her to try out for Jacques Poitrenaud’s film Les portes claquent. She got the role and began her career. Her destiny changed course. Catherine Dorléac became Catherine Deneuve—her mother’s maiden name—and left her family home in 1962 at age 19 to live with the director Roger Vadim, who offered her a role in Le vice et la vertu. On the screen, she is exacting, her cold beauty shines. She is discreet but not naive… From her first appearance in 1957 in Les Collégiennes to Elle s’en va in 2013, a look back at Catherine the Great.
[Photos 19, 20 & 21]
www.vanityfair.fr/culture/cinema/diaporama/catherine-deneuve-en-70-photos/384?utm
► Ballerina project : des danseuses à New York
The Ballerina Project grew from the idea of New York City as a magnet for creativity; each photograph is a collaborative work of dance, fashion design and photography played out against the city’s landscape. Dane Shitagi is both the creator and photographer of the Ballerina Project.
To see more images from the Ballerina Project subscribe to the new website here.
[Photos 22-23-24]
http://ballerinaproject.com
https://www.facebook.com/theballerinaproject
http://instagram.com/ballerinaproject_
