Hello and welcome back. It's another nostalgic day as we review the best exhibitions of the summer. Tomorrow and for the rest of September, Magnus Naddermier, the artistic director of the Journal, will select the weekend portfolios. From Monday through Sunday, we will be providing comprehensive coverag...

31.08.2012[ read full story ]

Pierre Borhan Bonhomme - who has been the director of the Photographic Patrimony (Ministry of Culture) during 15 years - is currently working on an exhibition, which will be presented in 2014 both in France and in the USA. A book will also complete the exhibition. About 25...

09.08.2012[ read full story ]

La Lettre De La Photographie is dead. Long live Le Journal De La Photographie. We waited for the right moment to tell you. With the opening of the Arles festival , the most important photography festival in the world, the moment is now. Why the title change? Because the adventu...

03.07.2012[ read full story ]

This image embodies the horror of the Vietnam War. In the center of the photograph, a little girl, Kim Phuc, stands terribly burned by napalm in the center of a road. She could have stayed a victim forever. But photography changed her destiny, placing a handful of guardian angels on...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

The images you are going to see are abhorrent, unbearable. But Robert King, a veteran photojournalist took them so that we might see and understand the plight of the Syrians.

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

For the second edition of Inimagnable, this is a photograph of Remy Ochlik who was chosen to appear on the streets of Paris from June 19 to 25. Inimagnable is an association that provides support and fin...

18.06.2012[ read full story ]

Eve Thérond pointed out the incredible similarity between the Presidential portrait of François Hollande taken by Raymond Depardon and the painting of Pierrot Lunaire by Watteau.

13.06.2012[ read full story ]

After 16 years of existence, Paris Photo has become an essential meeting place, both on a French and international level. Nevertheless, as the network of cultural centers and galleries tends to make Los Angeles an essential meeting place for collectors who don’t come to Paris, Jean-...

11.06.2012[ read full story ]

Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke appointed to Sygma-Corbis Affair
Almost one year ago, La Lettre broke the news of a complaint filed by five former photographers from Sygma photo agency, accusing the agency of organizing a fraudulent bankruptcy, misuse of public funds, and a ...

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

The Getty Museum announced the acquisition of fourteen photographs by famed fashion photographer Hiro (Y. Hiro Wakabayashi), comprising work he created while on assignment for Harper’s Bazaar, French Vogue and Mirabella from the 1960s–1990s.

11.06.2012[ read full story ]