Eighty photojournalists in a beautiful tribute ,reflect on the great adventure that was the photo agency Sipa, founded by Göksin Sipahioglu, its legendary director, who passed away in October 2011.
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03.09.2012[ read full story ]

When I photographed the making of the film Union City, it was the start of my career as a commercial photographer, after 10 years of struggling as a fine art photographer and teacher. Among my students were Nan Goldin and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, both of whom became friends. The era of “co...

10.09.2012[ read full story ]

Since President Felipe Calderon declared an all out war on the narco-traffickers in December 2006, Mexico has been plunged into a real civil war conflict. The war declared on drug lords caused unprecedented outburst of violence in the whole country. Under pressure to keep ...

03.09.2012[ read full story ]

Miquel Dewever-Plana, a photographer at the Agence VU’, and the journalist Isabelle Fougère traveled to Guatemala to document the gang violence there. Their work resulted in the books Alma and L’Autre Guerre, (available in French from Editions Bec en l’air) and a web docum...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]

Never had the world been closer to a nuclear holocaust. When President John F. Kennedy announced the presence of nuclear weapons on Cuba pointed at the United States, and threatened to invade the island if Khrushchev refused to remove them, many thought it was the beginning of...

04.09.2012[ read full story ]

Dulce Pinzon is a Mexican photographer born in 1974. Her series Superheroes featured in the 2011 Rencontres d’Arles. 
As Pinzon says herself, “After September 11, the idea of the ‘hero’ became little by little ubiquitous in the public consciousness.” In everyday life, we overloo...

05.07.2012[ read full story ]

I regard "My Journey as a Witness" by Shahidul Alam as the most remarkable book by a single photographer since a messenger brought me a first copy of "The Decisive Moment" by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1952. It is not that the two books should be compared, although they are approximately...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

German publisher Steidl, known for its limited editions, high-end projects and know-how, will be launching in July: Paper Passion, the scent of a "freshly printed book". In charge, Karl Lagerfeld and Gerhard Steidl, regular partners in publishing, both attracted to...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion: happy faces, relaxed moments, places of leisure rather than wo...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

The set of illustrated texts compiled by Marvin Heiferman should be read as series testimonies. Each is by turns pertinent, touching, disturbing, poetic and scientific, chosen by theme or at random. For two years, the American curator and critic has collected stories of pictur...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]