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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"The Stolen Daughters of Chibok" offers an in depth look into the abduction of 276 Nigerian girls. “In the coming days, news would filter into the mainstream media...of how a terror group’s raid on a school for food and block-making equipment was transformed by official dereliction into a spectacular crime of opportunity and the largest single mass abduction of women and girls in Nigeria’s history.” In the middle of the…
A new exhibition, “Dissent, Discontent, and Action: Pictures of US by Accra Shepp,” is presented at the Spencer Museum of Art. Through two portrait series, “Occupying Wall Street” and “The Covid Journals,” New York–based contemporary photographer Accra Shepp reveals a sense of community, hope, and resilience during an era of tremendous social, political and environmental change. Shepp began photographing the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York’s Zuccotti Park on…
Until the 10th of June , the Studio Art Gallery of New Delhi presents the exhibition "Truth or Dare" - Women breaking Gender Stereotypes in India. The curator Sandeep Biswas sent up this text : “While the truth can be disguised, one must dare to question its intent.” Women in India have had a substantial role in the growth of Indian economy. Despite a lack of access to capital, they…
Preview Day: 10th May. The serious business of buying and selling gets under way, especially in the erected pavilion in the quadrangle of Somerset House, the venue for Photo London 2023. Some thirty galleries from across the world are in the pavilion alone and any negotiations that take place unfold at a discreet pace; a champagne bar is there for deals to be sealed. Some of those whose work is…
Until June 30, the Galerie 127 in Marrakech is exhibiting Sandrine Rousseau. The gallery thus presents the series entitled: Le Palais Intérieur, El Badiâ Conceived as sketches, the works in this corpus combine the expression of an interior universe with the essence of a place perceived from its details. This series produced at the Baadi Palace in Marrakech is part of a larger set on Moroccan alleys and architecture. Here,…
We have received this: we share it with you! Le Temps des cerises, a collaborative work by the couple Lia and Paolo Aldi, transforms exhibition spaces into an anachronistic world that is both ancient and contemporary. The dialogue between the two artists and the photographs from over 150 years ago is like a centrifuge: aspirations of brotherhood and fratricidal clashes, desire for self-determination and violent repression, places and dreams that…
He has portrayed luminaries from music, art and showbiz, surreally depicted the boundlessness of the big city and brought the greats of photographic history in front of the camera. With Abe Frajndlich. Chameleon, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) presents the iridescent diversity in themes of the American photographer Abe Frajndlich (*1946, Frankfurt/Main). On view are around 160 works from the 1970s onwards, including Frajndlich's earliest vintage prints from Cleveland. As…
It was my inveterate curiosity that, during my last column, led me into an investigation that was far too serious and in-depth compared to my initial intentions; moreover, it would not be finished since I committed myself at the end of this focus devoted to the fascinating photos of Count Charles de Clugny to put black on white, – extreme contrast which is not the prerogative only of photographers, since…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Kinship: Photography and Connection, featuring six contemporary photographers whose work results from deep relationships including friendship, ties to place, to community and beyond. On view at SFMOMA from May 20 through November 2023, Kinship: Photography and Connection brings together over 80 captivating works by photographers who share a special affinity with their subjects: Farah Al Qasimi, Mercedes Dorame, Jarod Lew, Paul…
Palermo, to life and death The Fondazione Merz honors the Sicilian capital through the eyes of five photographers from the island: Enzo Sellerio, Letizia Battaglia, Franco Zecchin, Fabio Sgroi and Lia Pasqualino. The exhibition Palermo, my love retraces the turbulent history of this warm-blooded city, from the 1950s until 1992, a period marked by the post-war rural exodus, severe poverty, as well as an intensification of mafia violence, culminating in…
The Zillman Art Museum (ZAM) presents the exhibition Meryl Meisler: 70s Suburban Sensibilities - Friends & Family from May 19 through August 19, 2023. Meryl Meisler was born in the Bronx in 1951 and raised in Massapequa, a Long Island suburb of New York City. Meisler’s neighborhood was largely composed of Jewish and Italian families, although there were also Irish, German, Greek and other first and second generation Americans. Meisler’s…
Taunus Foto Galerie presents the exhibition by Adriano Henney, Venice - Beyond the Mask from May 19th through July 29th. Adriano grew up in Italy and England and through his family knows Venice intimately. His alternative view of the city combines recognizable motifs with quiet, mysterious locations away from the hustle and bustle, aiming to capture the city's soul in the gradual, unrelenting erosion that seems to be its sad…
This year there will be the first edition of the contest "La Muta": The candidates will be exhibited in the shops of the city center and the winners will be chosen by public vote. The Biennale di Senigallia, your new destination: A Renaissance city amid seascapes and mountains, Adriatic beaches, photographic exhibitions, accessible artworks, curious gastronomy. Join and meet collectors, curators, photographers and passersby in lectures, debates and town squares.…
Hans Silvester received the Prix International Planète Albert Kahn in December 2022 for his entire career and for his testimonies for an era ranging from 1960 to the present day. Thanks to his openness to the world, the sharpness of his photographer's eye and his sense of beauty, he gives us iconic images representing everyday characters, witnesses of a culture, a place, of a moment... The photographer's eye freezes an…
In her “Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes” series, presented from May 13 to July 15 at La Maison du Regard in Le Havre, artist Catherine Balet pays tribute to the great Masters of photography by revisiting 176 years of its history. With her charismatic interpreter in golden shoes, Ricardo Martinez Paz, Catherine Balet revisited 130 iconic images in order to better understand the photography trends of today…