Le Carré d’Art presents Mouna Saboni’s exhibition entitled Disappearance, a project carried out along route 65 in Jordan, the central point of the “Diagonal of Thirst” which extends from Tangier to China. A project on the disappearance of water, a major crisis of our century that the world will have to confront. Cradle of humanity, marked by History and the great monotheistic religions, a territory which has kept traces of…
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This is one of the most surprising portfolios received this week. It is titled: The Last Request and is the work of Rankin. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/937569277"] This text accompanies it: "The Last Request" is a poignant film /photo campaign brought to life by British photographer Rankin, celebrating the legacy of the now late Paola, a courageous individual who confronted the reality of…
Until April 27, the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting Éric Antoine. The exhibition entitled Abodes is presented as follows: The show’s titular series Abodes speaks to how inextricably linked Antoine’s work is to his home and memories. Different configurations of numbered boxes represent the artist’s past residences, which begin and end in the secluded forest of France’s Alsace region. Within the expansive wooded landscape, Antoine developed his…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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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…
The images of natural and manufactured objects, observed and taken out of context, as well as those of contemplative landscapes and mysterious portraits intend to convey the passing of time and a sense of ennui. A dialogue is established between moments and places that aren't otherwise connected with each other, thus opening the interpretation of new meanings. In this introspective quest to build a personal memory, the photographs relate with…
Lara Tabet is a Lebanese clinical pathologist and visual artist. Her work at the intersection of photography, biology and the environment is rooted in research and experimentation. She is interested in the interaction between photographic and biological materiality while questioning the porous boundaries between analog and digital languages. She uses old photographic techniques as well as new technologies in image-making and synthetic biology to explore the constant impulse to classifiy…
Last April, we showed you some photos of Charles Matton, this jack of all trades of genius who died in 2009. Sylvie, his wife offered us this film which she made after he disappeared. A pure marvel, which she accompanies with these words. JJN Charles had a film project with Arte which would narrate his work, which would reveal both its complexity (through all the mediums used and its various…
Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966) ranks as one of the foremost pioneers of modern photography. His images from the 1920s and 1930s concentrated on the medium’s technical possibilities in objectively capturing and reproducing “the essence of things” as the guiding principle of photographic representation. His seminal photobook “Die Welt ist schön” (The World Is Beautiful) was released in 1928 and is widely regarded as a visual manifesto of New Objectivity photography. Thanks…
In the spring of 1992, I took over the premises of my new studio, at Chemin du Calvaire number 3 in Lausanne. A fully equipped darkroom, where I did not take into account the thousands of hours spent developing films and making prints. It was often at night, I liked the nights in the dark room, isolated from the world to better reveal the emotions in the transparency of the…
Clarendon Gallery, Mayfair, presents Beyond, an exhibition by the celebrated British photographer Harry Skeggs. Documenting a journey he made to the Antarctic peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in the early Spring of 2022, this presentation is comprised of around thirty works and captures the dramatic landscape of the Antarctic, an area known as the ‘Polar desert’, as well as the wildlife that exists there and on the Sub-Antarctic…
Bildhalle celebrates the new representation of French artist Marguerite Bornhauser with her first solo show in Amsterdam. She has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Simon Baker, Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (MEP), who hosted her first solo show in 2019, writes: “Color is not just the focus of her work, but more often a way of perceiving, seeing again and picturing the world. And…
For the second edition of the Les Docs de Noirmoutier festival, the Salorges cultural center will host the photographic and documentary exhibition "Solastalgia" by Marina Vitaglione. “My insularity has been my blessing and my curse. The insularity made my singularity and the singularity made my charm, the charm brought the crowds and the crowds brought my metamorphosis. Irony is a singular thing.” These would be the words that beautiful Venice…
Stéphane Plassier: The human being at the center of everything. He defines himself as a "global designer" and conjugates art in a plural form. Alternately art director, fashion designer, visual artist, architect or designer, Stéphane Plassier is above all a lover of shapes, art and materials, but most import, a precursor of the transversal approach. The simplicity of the forms, the work of the color and the humor are the…