“Exchanging glances with a huge monkey is a unique experience that rarely leaves one indifferent. A strange feeling overwhelms you: is there more to his glance than meets the eye? What unfathomable thoughts are hiding behind this surprisingly human face?”

17.10.2012[ read full story ]

Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon (powerHouse Books) is the fifth book by the unstoppable Paola Gianturco, who is a grandmother herself. Ms. Gianturco has dedicated herself to documenting the women who light the dark all around the world. Her oeuvre is sprin...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]

The beach has become a recurrent theme in contemporary photography, and has featured in Martin Parr’s photographs since early in his career: “The seaside has to be one of the most fascinating places for people-watching. It is a place where we relax and lose our inhibitions, and that’s w...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]

“Each portrait is a short story.” So claims the preface of this new book, the culmination of six years of work on a much-coveted theme. Baudouin, a well-known portrait photographer in the French media, must have walked through many doors before arriving at this selecti...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

In 2010, Jeremy Stigter photographed the patients and the nursing staff of the Cancer Unit at the Hôptial Cochin in Paris, led by Professor François Goldwasser. This photographic series was born of portraits reflecting the relationship that formed between the photographer and his ...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

We know of the African influences in Brazil and the Caribbean, but what do we know about the presence of black populations in Andean South America? Africa-America is a photographic journey examining the traces of Africanness in the black diaspora of the Andes. Starting in the 16th ce...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]