Offprint Paris 10-13 Nov. 2011, is a platform dedicated to contemporary photography and image making. A meeting place for artists, photographers, graphic designers, curators, artistic directors a.o. Offprint Paris focuses on high-end and emerging practices, offering a unique select...

10.11.2011[ read full story ]

For the first time and exclusively for Paris Photo, J.P. Morgan is delighted to present selected photographs from its own corporate collection, the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection. Organized around the theme “Of People and Places”, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection’s Direct...

08.11.2011[ read full story ]

Like in previous years, the Angkor Photo Festival has invited guests to speak at its evening screenings. This year’s guests are Wang Xi, a curator in China, and Sylvia Grumbach, photo director of 2e Bureau (France). Antoine Agata will also lead a series of workshops.

18.11.2011[ read full story ]

The Angkor Photo Festival is never organized around a single theme. Rather, it’s a convention of collective and individual exhibitions reflecting the year’s most important news stories. Here is a selection of the photographers who were invited to show their work at the festival.

18.11.2011[ read full story ]

In recent years, the interest of photography editors and curators has expanded the frontiers of photobook-based histories beyond the United States and Europe, resulting in studies like Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and 70s (2009) by Ryuichi Kaneko and Ivan Vartanian,...

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On the initiative of a local group of gallery owners, the Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés association has organized the first Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés festival. Led by Juliette Aittouarés, the festival brings together 44 galleries, specialized bookstores, institutions and p...

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The revelation of the 9th Rencontres de Bamako can be found in the Ritual Arts Hall of the National Museum of Mali: Soungalo Malé.
Portraits and studio portraits clearly linked to the history of African photography. Perhaps, yet so different, so revealing of future discoveries waiting t...

04.11.2011[ read full story ]

From 10 to 13 November 2011, the week after the Encounters of Bamako opens, the Paris Photo Fair will be celebrating its 15th anniversary at the Grand Palais. African photography from Bamako to Cape Town is in the spotlight this year. The Encounters of Bamako has been invited to joi...

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When Samuel Sidibé contacted me to design an exhibition based on an African collection for the 9th Encounters of Bamako, I didn’t hesitate for an instant, the idea seemed so obvious: inviting an African collector to share his or her work with the seasoned regulars of the co...

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In the last twenty years, African photography from the 1950s–1970s has received huge attention worldwide and a whole host of exhibitions and publications have been devoted to it. Interest in the work however has rarely been accompanied by any desire to safeguard and update archives....

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