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 ]

Ladies and Gentlemen! – The Camera as a Mirror at Moderna Museet in Malmö, Sweden focuses on the art of portrait photography and how artists like Warhol, Mapplethorpe or Fosso creates images that depict people not just as they actually are, but also as they woul...

20.02.2012[ read full story ]

Paolo Roversi is one of the most esteemed fashion photographers currently working. His preference for work in his Paris studio, a back drop of a ragged grey blanket, bare timber boards and a selection of beaten up chairs and stools providing the only set required by Roversi, has...

23.02.2012[ read full story ]