A few weeks ago, Spanish photographer Miguel Angel Sanchez visited the Inception Gallery in Paris’ very hip Marais neighborhood. Otherwise averse to photography, the pictures he showed instantly appealed to the gallery owner. This is how this young (34 years...

20.02.2012[ read full story ]

“Art can only be erotic” said Picasso.
If it’s true for drawing and painting, why not for photography?
Isn’t the photographer above all the one who shows us reality, unveils it, denudes it, making the viewer into a voyeur? All the more so when the photographs, like JIs Birdy’s, s...

12.03.2012[ read full story ]

Through an array of unusual characters and settings, the American photographer Cindy Sherman has for thirty-five years offered a provocative critique of our modern visual culture. This large retrospective of her work at the MoMA is a rare honor for an artist in her fifties

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

Photographer Guy Le Querrec loves fables. The elephant’s eye according to african lore works as a camera at the last second when the diaphragm opens. Each picture taken at this moment calls for imagination, challenging the eye. For over fifty years, Guy Le Querrec’s Leica ha...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

Tomorrow, February 18, a retrospective of the work of Alice Springs, June Newton in the real life (wife of Helmut), will open at the Gallerie Carla Sozzani. June was a talented photographer, who more or less retired fifteen years ago. Speaking to us about June are three of her cl...

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

This smiling, bearded man with round glasses you see was once a fixture at some of the wildest parties of the 1980s. That was where he took some of his best pictures, and where met everyone who matters in the contemporary Russian art scene, from eccentric artists to beautif...

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

Bye Bye CBGB is a final goodbye to one of the last relics of New York punk rock and 1970s/1980s underground culture. CBGBs is a place that continues to thrive on in the collective unconscious; a historic landmark that belongs just as much to teenagers buying their...

20.02.2012[ read full story ]

Antoine Verglas searches for truth through his lens and captures, exposes and delivers photographs that are not only beautiful but elemental and sensual, in essence conveying the message that reality is not what we see but truly what we discover and create for ourselves. Subme...

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

Digital photography wiped out everything in its way. The funerals of silver films were expedited to avoid any resistance. The more the technology seemed outdated, the more its ghosts reappeared in nostalgic interrogations. Traditional methods have become trendy. Above and b...

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

The gallery drkrm presents Ansel Adams Los Angeles, rarely seen photographs that reveal the lost landscape and lifestyle of a prewar Los Angeles. These nostalgic images from the archives of The Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection, represent Ansel Adams as a photojournalist on...

15.02.2012[ read full story ]