Interview

Grazia Neri:
The Lady of Photography

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Grazia Neri, also known as “la Signora della Fotografia”, is almost a legend for many professional and amateur photographers in Italy and foreigners abroad. Her name, after fighting for several years to defend copyright, was credited on hundreds of thousands of...

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Holidays

Vacation Photos:
Summer 2013

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After seven months of snow, rain, cold and gray skies, the 2013 summer holidays have never been more welcome. For Le Journal, they will start the day after the end of the Rencontres d’Arles festival, July 8. Take revenge on these long winter days and share with us your photographs of ha...

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Book

Mario Sorrenti:
Draw Blood for Proof

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Initially conceived as a personal project on the walls of Sorrenti’s New York loft, the material in Draw Blood for Proof eventually found its way onto gallery walls as a large-scale installation piece in 2004. Papering the site from floor to ceiling with layers of collected snap...

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Awards

Max Pinckers: Levallois Photography Award 2013

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The jury of the 2013 City of Levallois Photography Award, met on June 7, and decided to give the prize to Max Pinckers (Brussels, 1988) for his series The Fourth Wall. His work was chosen among 229 applications from 38 countries.
The Award cons...

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Portfolio

Robert Hutinski:
The mirror

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Today, the political permeates most practices in the everyday of an individual who both executes and produces them and only rarely (in most cases) questions and examines their origin. The complex array of topics pertaining to the notion of the political affect the individual from cradle ...

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L'Oeil de La Lettre

Photo Celebrates Issue No. 500

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It was Monday in the Jardins de Bagatelle, west of Paris. Photo magazine was celebrating its 500th issue. It was 500 issues ago that one day in 1967, Roger Thérond, Walter Carone and André Lacaze created Photo. In September, an exhibition of the magazine’s best covers will be held at th...

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Book

Edmund Clark
Control Order House

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Established in 2005 to combat the threat of terrorism, the Control Order is a complex system of restrictions which severely limits an individual’s liberty and movement. This work follows photographer Edmund Clark’s confrontation with the program, beginning with a neutral reproductio...

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Exhibition

Gérard Uferas:
Sur le fil du rêve

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Sur le fil du rêve explores the past fifteen years of Gérard Uféras’ work in fashion. In 2009, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie held a retrospective exhibition, l’Etoffe des rêves, covering 20 years of his work. A year later, he exhibited Paris d...

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Exhibition

Randa Mirza:
On Sex and Gender

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By taking the body as a subject, exploring nudity in its gender attributes, Randa Mirza divests it of its sexual qualities. Instead, she offers an investigation of the body that is by turns intimate, scientific and humorous about the ambiguity of sexual identity from ...

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Portrait

Jean Loh by Stéphanie de Rougé

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In 2007, Jean Loh acquired a space in Tianzifang, Shanghai, for an exhibition in collaboration with the Galerie VU. After a few weeks of no news from Paris, he decided to use to space to exhibit the work of talented and unknown Chinese photographers. Jean Loh is a willful and poetic r...

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Exhibition

Marie Benattar
Valse Turque

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The hidden framework of all stories is fragmented, like photography that aims to reveals certain emotions and energies, to reveal paths, gaps, and to capture the imagination and the experience of dreams. What I hope to offer the “viewer” is something different, or at least a break (a pau...

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