On display right now at the Bonni Benrubi in New York, the French photographer Karine Laval continues her exploration of the elements. As in her previous series The Pool and Poolscapes, the focus here is water, water that is red like fire, an allusion to another element...

06.05.2013[ read full story ]

Although most people remember him as the Kennedy family’s personal photographer, Mark Shaw (born Schlossmann in 1922) was one of the most influential American fashion photographers of the 1950s and 60s. He traveled frequently to Paris for LIFE, the most wi...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

The third Carte Blanche PMU has just been awarded to Olivier Cablat. The prize aims to “give young artists the opportunity to take a fresh look at a world hitherto unknown to them.” The winner receives 20,000€ to produce an original project to be exhibited and published. Th...

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For the last few years I have been photographing the New York City nightlife in its different incarnations-­‐ clubs, lounges and bars, as well as parties-­‐ both public and private. During this time I observed the focus of the events shift from partying to photographing the partying ...

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Three recent series by Gilles Ouaki, the famous photographer for Le Parisien and Paris Match, are currently on display at the Galerie Morette & Moretti in Paris. They confirm his total commitment to contemporary art. For twenty years Ouaki covered the most violent e...

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Even more than the events of May 1968, the iconography of the Front Populaire in France (1936) is only symbolized by a few clichéd images that perpetuate the myth but do not tell the story, or only tell a partial and distorted version of the story. If recent events have b...

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Fr DispoThe exhibition Passage offers visions of artists exploring the boundary between childhood and adulthood. For this occasion, Thierry Ruffieux invited me, as both a photographer and exhibition curator, to bring together and compare different perspectives on the ...

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Julien Lombardi’s photos are timeless. His artistic approach to the medium transforms reality into a theater of illusion. His staging of the ordinary creates a simulacrum, and the neutral elements of our daily lives take on new meanings. No matter where they are...

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For the release of Sebastian Junger’s documentary on the life of Tim Hetherington, the International Center of Photography is presenting an exhibition of the photographer’s work. Hetherington was known for his empathy and his commitment, and this series pays tribute to that sensi...

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The exhibition Verweilen at the Sala Canal de Isabel II brings together 50 photographs by the artist Aitor Ortiz (Bilbao, 1971). The publisher and art critic David Barro served as curator. Ortiz uses architecture to suggest images that lie on the border between reality and fiction. He ...

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