Highway 40 Quebec-Montreal Here are 15 photos from a series of 32 "chronicling" a trip from Quebec City to Montreal on Highway 40 at sunset. I took advantage of the fact that I wasn't the driver to photograph the landscape along the highway, using relatively slow exposure times to obtain deliberate abstractions. The effect varies according to the nature, variety and distance of the vegetation that borders it, but also…
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Masks Having discovered Venice outside of the carnival festivities, I toured the workshops and boutiques of the artisans, the real ones who make things made in Venice. Whether they are made of leather, wood, plaster, papier-mâché, painted, decorated with stones, jewels or feathers, they are true works of art. A long time ago the main function of the mask was to preserve anonymity, allowing its owner to play a role…
Paths My paths are a starting point. They are a collection of the fascination I feel when I discover them... Paths hide a thousand possibilities; they can open up a new path or close another. Paths get lost or they find each other again. There are those who no longer offer a way out, those who are a birth, those who destroy themselves, and those who discover a new heaven.…
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Mercurial Alchemists believe in the ultimate unity of matter and spirit; the direct correlation that exists between the tangible physical world (the Body) and the immaterial realm of consciousness (the Soul). To them, the human Mind is the special place in the cosmos that stands in between the two, and is thus able to conceive them not as separate, but rather as parallels on different dimensions. As Above, So Below:…
Ema Martins : Committed & Passionate Art is a field that she has been passionate about since she was very young. Photographer, model, but also exhibition designer, she has turned her versatility into a strength. Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Performing Arts, she has, in parallel to her studies, worked alongside professional photographers who have perfected her training. At 20, she became a photographer for the city of Puteaux.…
Christian Caujolle and Cambodian photography relationship is about commitment. From 1997, when he created his first studio in Phnom Penh where photography, laminated like other forms of artistic expression, had disappeared during the Khmer Rouge terror, until today when he continues to animate the Photo Phnom Penh festival, Christian Caujolle considers his intervention in Cambodia as an engagement. In a country where there is no fixed image training, the festival…
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Ralph Ellison (1913–94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his lifelong engagement with photography. Photographer is the first book dedicated to Ellison’s extensive work in the medium, which spans from the 1930s to the ’90s. Throughout his life, photography played multiple roles for Ellison: a hobby,…
For this eighth edition, the organizers of Photo London have thought of several geographical focuses, in particular the one devoted to Iranian photography. Overview of the different proposals. Roya Khadjavi Projects and Nemazee Fine Art (New York) exhibit five photographers with original practices, united by their social and environmental involvement. Tahmineh Monzavi, known for his documentary work, now associated with an artistic approach, presents a mix of several series linked…
As the eighth edition of Photo London opened on May 11, the presence of many photographers from the African continent among the stands reflects the growing importance of this part of the photography market. Overview. Let us first note the strong French interest in this region. The Bonne Espérance gallery (Paris) presents a South African selection through a retrospective of the work of the great documentary maker Jürgen Schadeberg, whose…
The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem presents ‘Documenting Israel: 75 Years of Vision’, an exhibition of photographs opening on Israel’s 75th Independence Day 'Documenting Israel: Visions of 75 Years' is an exhibition of photographs that documents Israel from many angles, covering the State’s entire history as well as the years leading up to its founding. Comprising works by renowned local and international artists, the exhibition is curated by Anna- Patricia Kahn,…
Michaela Spiegel’s Instant Memoir 1994-2017 published by Kehrer pictures turbulent time travel in Polaroid pictures, spanning more than two decades full of love, food, and art. It’s all a question of digestion. This Instant Memoir is an ambient travelling guide through my head and across twenty-three years of my life. It entails a discrete selection of culinary and amorous souvenirs from among approximately sixteen thousand convivial moments of the chronological…
Before graduating from the Ecole des Arts et Métiers of Vevey in Switzerland in 1962, Bruno Barbey was so bored that he decided to cross the border to check out the other side of the Alps. Italy was not far away, and Italian is one of Switzerland's three official languages, so he wasn't going to terra incognita. If he had brought along his camera, it was not for shooting advertising…
During the spring and summer seasons of 2023, the Frac MÉCA is devoting an important exhibition to Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) embracing all aspects of his work, which has long been controversial but is indeed incredibly contemporary. This exhibition will explore his direct sources of inspiration and affiliation (e.g., surrealism, fetishism, tantrism) and reveal unpublished archives and testimonies. It will also highlights connections with contemporary artists (including Cindy Sherman, Luciano Castelli,…
Samuel Fosso, star of contemporary African photography recognized by institutions around the world, and Jean-Marc Patras, his historical agent, choose the young Christophe Person gallery to represent him. If the iconic images of the artist, virtuoso of the self-portrait, are very present in museums - the MEP devoted an exhibition to him a year ago - they are rare on the market. To inaugurate this collaboration, the CHRISTOPHE PERSON gallery…
The Centre Pompidou presents a dialogue between Lynne Cohen and Marina Gadonneix, two photographers who share an interest in the interior spaces of our modern societies, from places of scientific study to places of entertainment and consumption. Although the spaces documented by both artists are marked by the absence of human figures, their traces remain visible, inviting us to better understand and protect the social and natural environment. We publish…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the news of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. Elder Sex, published by JBE Books, is a voluptuous and shimmering ode to the sexuality of seniors. Part of these images taken by Marilyn Minter originally illustrated…
Arnaud Bizalion Editeur presents the book Hélène by Estelle Lagarde. “We met in 2004, in the metro. I approached you with the desire to photograph you. At first you were my role model, over time we became friends. Photography has this magnificent power to fix time, space, people. But books even more so. Because your life, your face and your beauty were horribly torn from the world on November 13,…
Martha Stewart was photographed by Ruven Afanador in the Dominican Republic for the 2023 SI Swimsuit Issue. She is 81 years young. “When I heard that I was going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, I thought, Oh, that’s pretty good, I’m going to be the oldest person I think ever on a cover of Sports Illustrated,” Stewart casually admits. “And I don’t think about age very…
It is a simple sentence. A one-line article that would change the lives of millions of French women. From the front page, the readers of L'Écho d'Alger of April 23, 1944 understood that something was about to happen. On April 21, the French Committee for National Liberation, chaired by Charles de Gaulle, drafted an ordinance on the organization of public powers in France after the Liberation. Article 17 announced, "Women…
Jacques Dutronc has just celebrated his 80th birthday. We are in 1968, Jacques Dutronc is in concert at the Palais des Fêtes in Roanne. As a young photographer who had just finished my apprenticeship with my father, I was at work that evening, with my father's Rolleiflex in my hands and only one 12-shot film loaded in this 6X6 camera to cover the event. I had just turned 20 and…
April 29 marked the 20th anniversary of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. On April 29, 2003, the HCB Foundation was inaugurated at Impasse Lebouis in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Its first exhibition, The Choices of Henri Cartier-Bresson, presented the works of photographers who particularly inspired the founder of the institution. Created in 2003 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, his wife Martine Franck and their daughter Mélanie Cartier-Bresson, the Fondation HCB aims to…