“Last year, Rémy Fenzy came to see me to tell me the school was going to celebrate its 30th anniversary. He asked if it would be possible to honor the occasion with a spot in the festival. Which I refused at first.” Then together, they took the time to conjure up a s...

02.07.2012[ read full story ]

“Imagine if we could hold a seminar with a discussion between Rousseau and Voltaire. We would have had these two men telling the stories of their lives. We have the fortune today to have the greatest photographers in the world. Even if many of them are disappearing now, they all came to ...

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There is nothing more French than this small village in the Loir Valley—not to be confused with the Loire Valley—where our “good” kings would come to taste the pleasures of the flesh on the banks of the Loir. It is in this charming locale that Odile Andrieu organized the 8th ...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

With « Circus in Palestine », Milan Szypura, a young photography student at the EMI-CFD, did not win a Vendôme award, but did win the encouragement of several journalist jury members. About his story, “Le cirque en Palestine”, he said: “Making movies in Palestin...

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One of the last great migrations of mammals takes place in East Africa—the migration of the wildebeests. One day, as if instructed by a hidden signal, the animal herds on the Serenghetti plains start heading north in a great cloud of dust, driven by an irresistible force. They ...

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A photographic landscape observatory consists of setting up, on a given territory, a photographic watch in order to study how landscape changes. A photographer on this type of project must produce an aesthetically pleasing work, which functions both as an art object and a documentary, ...

03.07.2012[ read full story ]

There is no mystery; Dorothée Smith’s approach to the visible, at once luminarist and dark, is valid as an image of the uncertainty of sexual roles. Questions of gender, a current in philosophy over the last twenty years or more, occupy an important place in the intellectual development o...

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On 11 March 2011, at 2.46 pm, a huge earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck Tohoku, a coastal region in northeast Japan. The quake’s epicentre was off the Sanriku coast, filled with fishermen. The tsunami that followed destroyed almost all the inhabited areas along the coast and...

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Coming across a photograph by Erwan Morère is no light matter. Too bad, it’s too late. There you are – that’s it You know how it is, the feeling that you’ve been grabbed as you pass by – you’re hooked, carried away, and you say to yourself that if you get off while the thing...

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Halfway To White is not a quest for a virginal white but the empirical and tonal exploration of a multitude of whites. White is an overwhelmingly enigmatic subject: the same way it contains all colours, it can carry all significations and meanings. It is precisely through this complexity...

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