Long a source of fascination, twins have often been the subject of myths and legends, starting with the ancient figures of Remus and Romulus. Twins can share the exact same DNA, tastes, habits, and have eerily similar life experiences. But in his latest work, the American photog...

16.01.2013[ read full story ]

The feminine ideal: she is an industry unto herself, a vision of beauty held above all, as a thing to aspire towards, or to have and to hold. She exists because we need her to be, a vision of power or submission, whatever the frame may be. She is both muse and mistress, demanding our atten...

22.01.2013[ read full story ]

For twelve years, Chirodeep Chaudhuri has returned each fall to his native village in Bengal to attend the ceremonies celebrating the worship of the Hindi goddess Durga. A Village in Bengal shows daily life in a rural village, from community meetings and religious holidays to...

10.01.2013[ read full story ]

Jean-Christophe Béchet began his travel diaries in 1987. He went to Timbuktu, a city he had dreamed about since childhood because of its name. In 2012, when he decided to return to the bends of the Niger River, northern Mali was at war. Extremist groups were destroying most...

11.01.2013[ read full story ]

Every year since 2001 no less than 150 decomposed or skeletal remains of people crossing into the US from Mexico have been discovered in remote areas of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert. Pima County Forensic Science Center in Tucson deals with most of them, analyzing and storing their re...

09.01.2013[ read full story ]

In bookstores since November, this work published by Flammarion covers two centuries of photographic history. From the pioneers and early fashion photographers to the most famous documentary images, nearly everything you would expect to find is there. Organized chronologically, the book o...

08.01.2013[ read full story ]

Punk Passage: A Tragicomic Romp Thru the Hardcore Axis of the SF/LA Punk Scene 1977–1981 is Ruby Ray’s first book, as DIY as anything she has ever done. Produced exclusively as a photographic ebook, Ray has amassed the best of her archive into an explosive volume of s...

09.01.2013[ read full story ]

The Brooklyn Central Library stands proudly at Grand Army Plaza, firmly set in the Northwest corner of Prospect Park, shining bright with gold inlays upon its façade, recalling nothing so much as Egyptian hieroglyphics. Inside the library, the ceiling soars high above, opening ...

08.01.2013[ read full story ]

Ruins. Empty hollow shells of what once was. Disarray, deshabille, the beautiful poetry of decay. Buildings that once stood, fully functional, making themselves useful to the people that created them to serve a greater purpose. But time passes and use falls away, and buildings that once we...

11.01.2013[ read full story ]

Yasmina Khadra has always shown a deep interest in anything that relates to his native country, and has expressed himself many times through newspapers articles and novels, despite the threats to his life. In this work, Yasmina Khadra, an Algerian who writes in French, cries out his ...

07.01.2013[ read full story ]