John L. Hillelson has died. A great figure of 20th century photojournalism has left us. The "John Hillelson Agency" represented Magnum in London, but also Sygma and Viva. He collaborated with and sold the work of photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Erwitt, Cole etc. I would ne...

15.02.2012[ read full story ]

The Japanese photographer Yasuhiro Ishimoto who has died at the age of ninety was one of the leading figures in the renaissance of photography in Japan in the years immediately after the Second World War. Born in the USA he first entered Japan with his parents when he w...

14.02.2012[ read full story ]

The photographer Sergio Larrain (1931 - 2012) passed away yesterday morning at his home in Chile. Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1931, Sergio Larrain studied music and forestry before discovering photography in 1949 during a trip to Europe and the Middle East. He joined the staff of the Brazi...

08.02.2012[ read full story ]

Only in New York ! The formula is perhaps hackneyed, but it is still true. The proof: this picture published yesterday on Facebook. A woman taking vengeance on her husband's adultery on a billboard.

02.02.2012[ read full story ]

Considered one of the first female Indian photojournalists, Homai Vyarawalla passed away in Boroda, Gujarat, on January 15 at the age of 99.

20.01.2012[ read full story ]

Madeleine de Sinéty passed away on December 22, 2011, in Rangely (Maine) from breast cancer, which she had battled with over the last 20 years of her life. One look at the photographs of Madeleine de Sinéty will most definitely make you wonder why she is...

30.01.2012[ read full story ]

Nicole Crassat, one of Elle Magazine great fashion editors, passed away last week. Gilles Bensimon shares these parting images and words: “I don’t like the word ‘memories,’ so I will always imagine her in the french country side, looking at us all benevolently".

16.01.2012[ read full story ]

Eve Arnold, globetrotter and photojournalist perhaps most known for her portraits of Marilyn Monroe, died last week at the age of 99, according to a Magnum photo agency spokesperson. Arnold died peacefully in her sleep in a London retirement home, added Fiona Rogers. Born in 1...

06.01.2012[ read full story ]

Everyday, Gilles Bensimon sends to his closest friends 2 photographs. Some kind of a diary in images. The day following the death of Loulou de la Falaise, the muse of Yves Saint-Laurent, he sent this photograph: a thoughtful gesture, a kind thought.

14.11.2011[ read full story ]

For three hours in Paris on this Thursday morning, October 13, the French press offices and the Parisian offices of international press companies were empty of their staff who had come to the Théâtre de l’Odéon to pay one final homage to Göksin Sipahioglu.

14.10.2011[ read full story ]