Describing this book is a challenge. It’s both a way to display the artwork and the artwork itself. The story of its creator, Frédéric Vidal, is already unusual enough. At 33 he gave up his career in fashion photography to travel and experiment with ph...

14.03.2013[ read full story ]

All the world is a stage, theater in the round, and when we walk upon it, we take action accordingly. We become actors in the movie of our lives, taking on a public persona that is in part crafted by the landscape itself. The milieu becomes a defining factor in our lives, but the more int...

15.03.2013[ read full story ]

GC, DF, CSQ, WXD, SQX, LS, HL, ZHF, HL, LY, GYY, ZMT, LTP, LWT, GLW, SY. 
They are the initials of names, women’s names, young chinese women’s names. This book is dedicated to them because – as the artist said – “without their incredible trust and friendship these photographs would not ex...

13.03.2013[ read full story ]

Since the fifteenth century, men and women living in the Thar desert of Rajasthan, India, have been willing to give their lives to protect wild animals and trees, living with them in total harmony considering them as members of their family. Recognized as the world first ecologists, the Bis...

08.03.2013[ read full story ]

We who know most paintings by their photograph are more often than not looking at distortions that arise from the process itself. Flattened as a three dimensional object, the painting becomes a shadow of its former self, the energy that once was live on the canvas now lost on the page. Bu...

08.03.2013[ read full story ]

Antichambres is the result of a month stay in Poland, where I visited 16 welcome centers for asylum seekers, as well as two detention centers. I worked in collaboration with the philosopher Christiane Vollaire, who interviewed more than one hundred Chechen refug...

05.03.2013[ read full story ]

If You Knew Me You Would Care is a collection of personal stories and portraits that come together to tell a powerful tale not only of survival, but also of life regained and the strength of the human spirit. Published by powerHouse Books New York, the stories i...

04.03.2013[ read full story ]

These photographs were taken through the window of an MTA bus, making its rounds in one of New York City’s more expansive boroughs. Attracted by the prospects of confronting the complexity of the United States, which was about to be reshaped by a historic election, we ...

01.03.2013[ read full story ]

Following the exhibition Gilles Caron. Le conflit intérieur, which opened in early February and will continue until May 12, 2013, the catalog bearing the same title is now available. Like the exhibition, this important book takes its structure from a study by Michel Poivert, whic...

01.03.2013[ read full story ]

The book opens with a photograph of a crashed glider sticking vertically out of a field, with about fifty people looking agape behind the two long wings that hold the plane in this dramatic position. It continues with an incessant parade of twisted metal, upside down vehicles, life...

28.02.2013[ read full story ]