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 ]

« The first time was violent. The first time was fascinating. 
As usual, the first time was left more to chance than to any intentional approach. I opened the doors onto the first match with the same curiosity that leads one to enter a store to see its exotic wares. 
And what I s...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

The VII agency has a book coming out featuring a selection pictures of historic events of the last twenty years. This is photojournalism in its purest state, a reminder of the role played by talented photographer. Photojournalism has only one rule: do not alter rea...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

Josef Koudelka’s latest book, "Lime" (Xavier Barral), follows up on the photographer’s work on Limestone (La Martinière, 2001). That work featuring 36 panoramic photographs was published in a limited edition of 500 copies and is today out-of-print. 
In the 245-page "Lime", we find...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]