On March 27, Frédéric Mitterrand, French Culture and Communication Minister, launched the AraGo web portal, that had been previously announced during a press conference in Arles on July 4, 2010. 
The name AraGo, the Minister reminded the audience, was selected in homage and, tha...

13.04.2012[ read full story ]

4 Great stories come from Zuma Press this week. From Tanzania to Haiti via the USA and Syria, the photographers of Zuma bring us an amazing array of great photojournalism.

22.03.2012[ read full story ]

Tahmineh Monzavi, a young 23-year-old photographer living in Iran, was arrested in Teheran: the charges against her were unclear. , Her photographic work was critical of contemporary Iranian society (drugs, women in general and homeless women), it seems that is evidence enough for th...

06.03.2012[ read full story ]

The hand of man” is the theme of the “Vendôme Photographic Promenades” scheduled this summer (starting June 22) in this typically French provincial city.

07.03.2012[ read full story ]

France in the 1970’s, Georges Pompidou was President. With the aftermath of the “May 1968” events still prevalent, extremist movements remained active. When a young man died, 200,000 people marched behind his coffin.

05.03.2012[ read full story ]

What do you do when all the images offered on the market start looking more and more like each other ? In a space dominated by a few major international stock photo agencies who produce images at factory pace under the barking orders of creative directors armed with numbered filled e...

01.03.2012[ read full story ]

There is not a lot to say about Moment Agency. For a good reason: Moment Agency is the type of photo agency, or rather collective, that only speaks via the photographs of its members. It doesn’t hold seminars, doesn’t have a magazine, a publishing division, a self-a...

07.03.2012[ read full story ]

In an interview she did last september when she announced that she was leaving the position of Director of Photography of Vanity Fair to join the Trunk Archive as Executive Director of Licensing, Susan White defined Trunk as “ the luxury option”. She added “ In fact, I neve...

23.02.2012[ read full story ]

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda was awarded the World Press Photo Award 2012 for his picture taken while covering the revolution in Yemen. A new “Pieta” to reassure Western public opinion?

13.02.2012[ read full story ]

After searching over a year, C/O Berlin has found a new location: the studio buildings in Monbijoupark in Berlin Mitte. On September, 16th, 2011 at the representatives’ meeting of the district assembly Mitte, it was unanimously decided that C/O Berlin may utilize these existing bu...

07.02.2012[ read full story ]