On Monday, May 13, Jean-François Leroy held his traditional press conference for the launch of Visa pour l’Image photojournalism festival, making an announcement that was not a surprise: Don McCullin will be this year’s guest of honor. Sometimes there are curious coincidences in...

16.05.2013[ read full story ]

François Hébel, the artistic director of the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, recently unveiled the 2013 program. In an introduction to the festival line-up, he admits that it might seem paradoxical to focus on black and white photography today, but believes the program wi...

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The Milan Image Art Fair opened with a VIP preview on Thursday and then to the public on Friday. MIA was conceived by Fabio Castelli, collector and curator, with the help of the redoubtable Enrica Vigano. The fair is unique in that each exhibitor displays work by single artists, e...

14.05.2013[ read full story ]

Via Tortona, Milan, is actually one the most interesting area of the city.The name is not found easily in the classic travel guidebook. But for those who love and work in the design, fashion and photography industries, Tortona is now a must. There, Superstudio Più has a b...

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In 1975 at the time of the famous Claustre affair Marie-Laure de Decker met and spent nearly two years photographing the Frolinat rebels, the National Liberation Front of Chad. This was a completely original series of thirty or so images of soldiers that posed majestica...

15.05.2013[ read full story ]

Change is a word not related exclusively to the megalopolis. Reggio Emilia is a city in northern Italy, where tradition and quiet life not necessarily request such changment. Apparently. But the changement is everywhere and this year Reggio Emilia wants to show off it. The 8th Ed...

08.05.2013[ read full story ]

The penal colony of Guiana (South America) opened in 1852. It was closed to metropolitans temporarily due to a high mortality rate in 1869, and reopened in 1887; in the meantime however colonial convicts continued to be sent there. The penal colony archives are prodigious in terms ...

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Adam Panczuk presents two black and white series. Large format portraits staging dreamlike scenes symbolising the farmers putting down roots in their native country, then more classic report images about farming throughout the year in this region in east Poland, Karczeby.

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After the fall of Gaddafi, the heavily armed Tuareg militia returned to Mali with the intention of reconquering Azawad, the land that they (the Tuaregs) have claimed since 1963. It is an area of transhumance which spans five countries. Ferhat Bouda, an Algerian photographer livi...

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The Léon & Levy studio operators performed a real technical feat taking pictures of the Tuareg community in the Central Sahara with a panoramic camera towards 1900. The images of the everyday life of the “blue men” are impressive in terms of their precision and sophisticated sta...

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