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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Blue Lotus Gallery presents the newest project of Hong Kong-based photographer Romain Jacquet- Lagrèze: “36 Views of Lion Rock”. This body of work is bundled as a book, the debut publication of the newly established publisher, Blue Lotus Editions, and is presented as a solo exhibition at Blue Lotus Gallery. With this project, Jacquet-Lagrèze captures a rich visual narrative of how the Hong Kong people interact with and create their…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle It is very often during conferences, courses, symposium (hey, that is not really fashionable anymore) or in conversations that this double question has been asked to me: “what is a Photography and why is my photography now considered as Art? “. I do not think I have all the answers to this double yet very simple question, to make some philosophically definitive assertions. On the other…
This is the shortest exhibition of the week. 3 days from today to Monday at the International Biennial of Photography in Epinal. The author also sent us this text! It was at the end of the sixties that I started to be interested by photography. Like many photographers at that time, the hours spent in darkrooms revealed this passion to me, which has never faded since. Over time, the images…
This month, I met with the curator and powerhouse, Candice M. Hamelin. I got to know Candice through our mutual friend, Miron Zownir, and have been a big fan of her work ever since. Not only does she have a brilliant eye for photography but also a sharp mind for intriguing contexts, exciting topics, and staging photographic art. On the occasion of the group exhibition JETZT. Magnum Photos, which just…
We learned of the passing of Melvin Sokolsky, Peter Fetterman wrote the following words in remembrance of this great photographer. Below, you will also find the links from our archives to the many features we published about Sokolsky through the years. Dear Friends, It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we share the news of Melvin’s passing this week. I enjoyed a long and wonderful collaboration…
Les Douches la Galerie presents their first solo exhibition of Louis Faurer. An American photographer whose work remains largely confidential but who has left his mark on his contemporaries. Excelling in the hypnotic dusk light with his photographs of Time Square, Louis Faurer flourished in the 40s and 50s New York’s, photographing the city with its authentic characters dented by life. Le Guetteur Mélancolique My earliest experience in art…
Following Roman Loranc and Oliver Miller, Taunus Foto Galerie in Bad Homburg is showing the next photographer in the Monochrome Perspectives series. Michelle Magdalena Maddox is a celebrated photographer and activist. Introduced to photography in childhood, she was fascinated by the mystery of red light and closing doors in the darkroom and by the magic of what came out. After her degree from the historic Brooks Institute of Photography in…
Between 1984 and 1989 Bernard Faucon created a series of photographs exploring the poetry of spaces based on his memories of growing up in the South of France. The “Rooms” photographed were carefully staged with objects and elements that had emotive and sensual qualities highlighting the mysteries, as well as the pleasures of reconnecting on a subliminal level with one’s personal history. These are images exploring the real and the…
The Miyako Yoshinaga gallery presents till the 15 th of October Melissa Shook, an American photographer, artist, writer, and educator who passed away in 2020 at age 79. The gallery will feature a solo exhibition by Shook, presenting compelling black-and-white self-portraits she created in the early 1970s Photographs are memory, a way of tricking fate…, talismans against loss, a bargain with death,” wrote Shook in her essay for Camera Arts in…
Yan Morvan attended Visa pour l'Image in Perpignan. He gave us these images and this text. Thanks Yan! JJN We could describe Visa 2022 in songs... "Avec le temps", " la ballade des gens heureux", a music: "Once upon a time in the West", "Gunfight at O.K. Corral"... But like these hummed tunes so often unforgettable we would always wish to keep them alive. Visa is the vintage party of…
Polyptyque is back funtil September 10th 2022 ! For this fourth edition, the Polyptyque exhibition offers a panorama of contemporary photography with a focus on the photographic scene in France. Thanks to the presence of experts and leading galleries, as well as an exhibition of eleven photography artists working in the South of France, Polyptyque will be an opportunity to meet new people and make new artistic discoveries. With :…
In the center of Sardinia, in different villages the Barbagia territory, strange and archaic traditions live on. Practiced by the inhabitants, ancient cults represent the intense and brutal relationship that man maintains with the wild and carry a mystical and spiritual value, with a cathartic and liberating goal. These costumes belong to a time that does not belong to us, to hide is a destiny, the hyphen of a disturbing relationship…
Khamsa khamsa khamsa—“five” in Arabic, repeated three times like a protective incantation—is an autobiographical visual narrative in the form of a family archive. At first glance, Gat tells the story of her childhood and adolescence growing up with alternative educational methods, with portraits of her siblings, friends and domestic scenes. However, underneath these family album-like images, a photographer’s writing emerges. Gat tells her story by gradually defining her way of…
His images describe a sensitive world where fragility is a vehicle of power and pop culture embraces the landscape. Photography is like a weapon, the one that helps him fight the diktats of the standardized representation of bodies and sexuality to let him dream of a society in the midst of a queer renaissance. It sows confusion, both in space – by never indicating where the photos are taken –…
The photographic work of Françoise Galeron is at the crossroads of documentary and poetic fiction. The relationship between humans and their environment is at the center of her research. This study is based on a map of the Regional Natural Park of Camargue, the Rhône delta, where she lives and works. Coexisting with nature induces a very special bond, a solidarity and fragile pact with this territory with an uncertain…