These images were not intentional. I did not set out to make this body of work. These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child. The photographs that resulted from that ...

23.02.2012[ read full story ]

Every year, GRIN (The National Group of Iconographic Editors) asks photographers to submit a picture taken in the city during the previous year. The economic crisis has only accelerated the transformation of the city. This year, more than 44 renowned and unknown photographers responded to...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

I was introduced to photography while studying journalism at the faculty of Saint Petersburg state university.I already had the feeling that photography would become an integral part of my life. It was many years before I was fully aware of this. Working as a designer and photo edito...

28.02.2012[ read full story ]

Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and a drastic reorganization of state, property and society. After leavin...

22.02.2012[ read full story ]

Once upon a time, there were two talented friends, each in their own field of excellence. The same insolence, the same sense of humor. One is more instinctive: video artist and photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino; the other more cerebral, brilliant with words and lin...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

The exhibition, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Photographies on display at the Jeu de Paume Museum of Paris through April 29, 2012, before traveling to the Beaux-arts Museum of Ontario, is the first comprehensive view of this American photographer’s work to be shown in both Fr...

22.02.2012[ read full story ]

Known for the theatricality of his beautiful black-and-white photographs, Hiroshi Sugimoto is above all a photographer-philosopher. For this meticulous artist, the camera is merely a tool to explore the invisible, the border between fiction and reality. This series is a sort of ...

20.02.2012[ read full story ]

Few emotions garner a more passionate, more guttural reaction in each of us than love. Except perhaps for hate. And yet, which of us could give an unequivocal definition of what each of these emotions stand for; how they manifest themselves; or even why? Expressions of love take...

20.02.2012[ read full story ]

The Alliance Française in Mexico City presents the exhibition A mexican in Paris, by Yolanda Andrade, a chant d´amour by the Mexican photographer to Paris.

22.02.2012[ read full story ]

Worldwide, prisons are ʻhomeʼ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by locking up such massive numbers of offenders?

22.02.2012[ read full story ]