It is in Istanbul, in front of the Bosphorus Canal, that the subject became evident for Consuelo le Mire. For four years she saw thousands of boats past her window and suddenly one day found a beauty in them that touched her despite their polluting reputation. Her exhibition, Cargos of...

06.04.2012[ read full story ]

Lands of the Maybe, in the heart of the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands follow the rhythm of the weather. “We can chase the fog away with a fan”, affirms a Japanese proverb. When one lands on the archipelago, one would think you’d need an entire army of fans to clear a path through the ...

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Nothing. Really nothing to do. At last ! Hamburg-Montreal. 10 days in gestation looking at the sea coming in. And at the 1,200 containers with unknown contents. Mysterious boxes that carry along useless merchandise necessary to our consumerist life. Stand still and eat a bit of wind whi...

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Ahh travels…here I am, in a humid and tropical land – again! Before I arrived, my local contact had warned me: “Beware, the light sucks.” I had felt it just before landing in our nickel-plated plane: huge turbulence had made a woman scream behind me in the cabin while the empennage was b...

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What are these unidentified objects placed in the middle of “lunar” space on these docks symbolizing the metaphorical scene of a journey? Don’t they look like inter-temporal vessels feeding the lyrical imagination that accompanies the representation of the port landscape echoing the...

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A l’occasion du festival de la Photo de Mer, la Cité de La Mer de Cherbourg s’est associée à la ville de Vannes pour présenter des photos inédites du Titanic. Des images exceptionnelles de ce paquebot de légende réputé insubmersible habilleront le kiosque culturel ...

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This year, the General Counsel of Morbihan, in partnership with the City of Vannes, presents an exhibition about The T.K. Bremen by Phillip and Guillaume Plisson. This photographic tale with a happy ending, tells the story of exemplary crisis management: from the rescue of ...

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After The Associated Press and Sipa in 2008, Getty Images and AFP in 2009, VSD Magazine and Reuters in 2010, AFP in 2011, Sipa Press presents a video projection of sea-related news from 2011 and 2012. More than 100 photojournalistic shots illu...

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The artistic path taken by Philippe Monsel is being presented at 24 Beaubourg in Paris through April 15, 2012. And what an unusual path it is! We associate Monsel’s name with the so-called “musical revolutions” of the 1960s and his photographs for the magazines Rock & Folk,...

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The Manchester Art Gallery opens its doors to the first major solo exhibition in a public UK gallery of internationally renowned photographer Roger Ballen. The exhibition explores three decades of the photographer’s career and not only demonstrates his influence on contemporary photography...

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