Anna Block was born in 1982 in Moscow, Russia. In 2004 she took up photography. Anna has personal (2010 Art gallery 40 Squares, Smolensk (Russia) and collective (in Russia, Latvia, China, USA) exhibitions. Publications in Foto&Video magazine, ZOOM Russian magazine. In 2011 Anna was invited by Art & Cultur...

03.10.2011[ read full story ]

Territories of Desire, currently on view at the Tampere Art Museum during Finland’s Backlight Festival, is featuring young Russian photographers. We feel it is important to devote today’s Lettre to this panorama of contemporary Russian photography.

03.10.2011[ read full story ]

Through December 24, 2011, the Galerie Agathe Gaillard will exhibit thirty of Charles Matton’s unreleased photographs. Until recently, the artist was known mainly for his recreations of “miniature spaces” which were the subject of a superb exhibition and publication in 2010. But Matt...

07.11.2011[ read full story ]

It was 1963 when Life Magazine sent its photographer, John Dominis, to cover Steve McQueen in his Palm Springs home. Since the end of the 1950's, he had become one of America's most popular actors, and at 33, was about to celebrate his greates success with the release of The Great Esc...

30.09.2011[ read full story ]

I do not photograph reality. I photograph what has been, what could have been, what I believe must be, what I would like to see, what I would like there to be...

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

From October 13th to November 19th, 2011, the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire will present Karen Knorr’s latest series, India Song, for which she received the Pilar Citoler Prize. (The prize also recognized her career as a whole.) India Song follows Fables (2003-2008),...

13.10.2011[ read full story ]

I have always loved the process, the journey. This book, more than ever, is about a journey shared, not taken alone. The editing process of this book turns out to have been a more challenging journey than I could have imagined. Questioning my choices rather than relying on my intuitio...

07.11.2011[ read full story ]

Corinne Day is celebrated this month with the release of Heaven is Real, a publication by Mörel Books containing previosly unpublished images, and the opening at Gimpel Fils of The Face, an exhibition that revisits some of her earliest works pro...

30.09.2011[ read full story ]

Among eight one-person shows by Italian artists, some emerging, others already established, Alessandro Imbriaco presents the series A Place to Stay, that is part of a bigger project on precarious housing, Temporarily Independent Spaces, which he has been working on for the pa...

26.09.2011[ read full story ]

Salvatore is the title of Lorenzo Maccotta’s personal show in Rome, he is one of the young talent presented in this 10th edition of the festival. Son of two Italian emigrated abroad, Lorenzo Maccotta bases his work for the Festival on a journey, made with his father, to the pla...

26.09.2011[ read full story ]