Maripol is a force of energy. Warm like a fire and flickering like a flame, she is one and the same as those who wore her designs in the earliest years. Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Madonna, the list goes on and on. Her aesthetic influenced the generation that watched “Bur...

20.05.2011[ read full story ]

Photographer Serge Leblon recently teamed up with fellow belges at Base Design in Brussels to publish his first book Fashion (Lido). The 256 pages retracing 10 years of his striking photography including work for designers like Rykiel, H...

16.05.2011[ read full story ]

The picture album The Great Terror in the USSR presents the results of a documentary photo project conducted by the author. The book presents pictures of 20th century crimes committed against humanity in Soviet Russia from 1937-38, providing a face and voice to the victims ...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

It is a shocking but true. Slavery is the third largest crime in the world today. Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Every year, over two million women and children—as young as three years old—will be...

06.05.2011[ read full story ]

Ari Marcopoulos’ latest book Directory (Rizzoli) does not only share the size, shape and quality with a phone book – it actually has the same printer as well. Magnus Naddermier talked to the Dutch-born photographer about his new book, fashion and camera bags...

06.05.2011[ read full story ]

Once the tribal land of the Crow, Colstrip was known as the place “Where the Enemy Camps” and “Where the Colts Died.” The Native Americans’ notion of the Seventh Generation (specifically formulated in The Great Law of the Iroquois) stated that all actions and decisions should be guided b...

13.05.2011[ read full story ]

From 1957 to 1973, Hans Silvester was not racing around Ethiopia as today, but Europe and North America instead. During these years, he lived a nomadic life next to tziganes, romas and gypsies, sharing their shelters and sheds, the sadness and the joy.

05.05.2011[ read full story ]

Dennis Hopper, the outlaw of American film, died last year. For the general public, however, he will forever remain that beatnik cavalier sitting astride his Harley Davidson in the road movie Easy Rider. A hymn to liberty and smokin’ joints, hair in...

24.05.2011[ read full story ]

Robert Doisneau had a grandfatherly tenderness towards children, recognizing in them his own fragility, a certain nostalgia, the thrill of playfulness, practical jokes and an enduring innocence. Robert, the orphan who lost his mother while still very young, ...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavic took honours in the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards winning the “Best Photography Book 2011” award for their collaboration, TJ & Double Negative, published by Contrasto. This year’s winner was announced as part of the Sony W...

03.05.2011[ read full story ]