François-Xavier Seren, photographer and reporter for more than thirty years passed away on December 21, 2012. In 1980, François-Xavier Seren began his career as a photographer. His black-and-white both explore and immortalize subjects from all social backgrounds. Last ...

07.01.2013[ read full story ]

Without a doubt one of the most important Canadian photographers of the 20th century, Guy Borremans died on December 29. Known not only as a photographer, but also as a teacher, filmmaker and photo director, he was 78 years old. Born in Dinant, Belgium, in 1934, Borremans was a self-taught phot...

04.01.2013[ read full story ]

Michel Birot was born in Aurillac, France. After studying in Toulouse, he joined the photo lab at the Agence Delpire in Paris in 1975, working with some of the country’s biggest magazines. Throughout his career in fashion and advertising photography, he stayed true to his civil ...

04.01.2013[ read full story ]

Bonni Benrubi passed away. She lost her battle against a cancer that started three years ago. Next week we will talk again of her surprising gallery as a tribute to her Today we republish her interview with Stéphanie de Rougé made a few month ago.

07.12.2012[ read full story ]

Elodie Mailliet Storm from Getty Images was a Friend of Ken Regan, she wrote this text. Photographer Ken Regan passed away this week, and we are sad at the loss of not only such an incredible photographer and person – but also a friend. At Getty Images, we had the ...

28.11.2012[ read full story ]

Despite his many famous portraits, the death on november 8th of British photographer Cornel Lucas at the age of 92 received little attention. In the 1950s and 60s, he welcomed into his studio some of cinema’s biggest stars, from Brigitte Bardot, Katharine Hepburn, Grego...

28.11.2012[ read full story ]

Richard Gordon was born in Chicago in 1945. He studied Political Science at the University of Chicago and did not begin photographing until he worked at a photography studio in 1965. Early in Gordon’s career, Robert Frank critiqued his work and stated that he “loved photogra...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]

Michelle Vignes had a burning passion for social documentary photography and used it not only to create important bodies of work but to support other emerging and established photographers through the two organizations she co-founded: The International Fund for Photography and Fotovision. She...

08.10.2012[ read full story ]

Following our tribute to Martine Franck, John G. Morris has shared with us this text and photograph. "Martine was a great woman as well as a fine photographer. She deserves immense credit, both for her own work and for sustaining Henri and Magnum and the HCB Foundation throug...

31.08.2012[ read full story ]

From Martine Franck, I knew the photographs. For a week, I have been collecting stories from people who knew her, and I realize that her images draw a sincere self-portrait of her. The photograph of two Buddhist monks reflects her elegance, with its delicate composition and ...

27.08.2012[ read full story ]