In the style of Cindy Sherman, the Swiss photographer Chantal Michel puts herself “on stage”. Her world however is more dreamlike then that of the American artist, and resolutely anchored in the traditional pictoral Swiss style. With great technical mastery, Chant...

16.02.2011[ read full story ]

A new photographic gallery project in Spain to exhibit and promote the photography of specific artist/photographers and to continue to establish photography as the valuable art form that it is. Valid Foto represents and promotes artists within the gallery itself as well as creat...

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This ensemble is the achievement of a collaboration with the Museum that has been supporting Antoine D’Agata’s production for the past 4 years. “Never before has a photographer had such a space, so many linear meters to place their artistic narrative”, states François Cheval,...

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From February 9th to May 15th, the Musee de l’Élysée of Lausanne will allow one to rediscover the work of Hans Steiner, Swiss photographer of the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition was conceived by Daniel Girardin and Jean-Christophe Blaser, Chief Curator and Cu...

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“If I love photography as much as I do, it must be, aside from the pleasure of the emotion and the form, for the desire to prolong the ephemeral, to save the instant.” Pierre Jamet

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I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order to confuse the readers. When the show opened in Japan, a newspaper article appeared saying that the show is about a real place in Japan w...

11.02.2011[ read full story ]

My series, Darkening, reveals nighttime worlds otherwise undetected and builds upon photography’s historic relationship with making the unseen visible. Influenced by allegorical painting, spirit photography, and notions of the uncanny, I adapt scientific and stealth imaging techniqu...

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This exhibition is presented at the Musée des Arts Derniers, a gallery specialized in African photography run by Olivier Sultan. On this occasion, unpublished prints are shown from important artists in African photography: Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé or Jean Depar...

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Betel Nut Beauties is a photoseries documenting the compelling phenomenon of roadside betel nut stands across Taiwan. A fixture on the streets of urban and suburban Taiwan, these brightly lit, often ramshackle huts sell a mild stimulant made from the nut of the areca pal...

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On this February 8th, James Dean would have been 80 years old. His life tragically ended on September 30th 1955 behind the wheel of his lightening fast Spyder, James Dean (and his romantic rebel image) has remained eternally trendy. During his short life and by way of o...

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