"Maryland, USA, 2011. Empty and rotting buildings dot the landscape of North Avenue, the major street that runs East to West through Baltimore. They are remnants of the subprime mortgage crisis, some now taken over by drug dealers. Many homes are unable to find buyers, even for...

31.05.2012[ read full story ]

With a degree from the Gobelins Visual Arts School, Christophe Dugied works regularly for lifestyle magazines. He began working on a personal project about 15 years ago, focusing on night walks in unusual locations: ports, industrial sites, no man’s lands… revealing them ...

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Laurent Chehere, a Parisian traveler born in 1972, formerly worked in advertising, winning awards for his work on campaigns for Sécurité Routière, Audi, Nike and l’Équipe. Always fascinated by photography, his many trips feed his imagination and share with us his vision of th...

31.05.2012[ read full story ]

The AGENTS ASSOCIES is a Paris Based professional association of agents representing over 800 French and international photographers, illustrators, and multimedia artists. The association inaugurated on May 31 at Docks en Seine its "Biennale des Créateurs d’Images – Edition 201...

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Lives of Others is Firecracker's first physical exhibition, coming on the heels of 18 months of online showcases. The brainchild of Fiona Rogers, Firecracker is an avenue to present the work of European women photographers at a time when, says Rogers, who also acts...

01.06.2012[ read full story ]

Human Rights Watch’s role is to defend and protect human rights around the world, giving a voice to the oppressed while holding oppressors accountable for their crimes. When Libya fell, last year, Peter Bouckaert, the organisation’s emergencies director, was on the ground w...

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While France was still struggling with shortages and reconstruction after the passage of the war’s nightmare, Walter Carone was inventing new methods, like Weegee, a new way of taking pictures of crime scenes, celebrities, backstage politics. This new photojournalism would be as clos...

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The PhotoMed Festival, devoted to Mediterranean photography, opened on May 24th. For this second edition, festival venues featuring 15 photographic exhibitions, are located in Sanary-sur-Mer, Bandol, isle of Bendor and Toulon. After last year with Martin Parr, this year’s guest of hono...

30.05.2012[ read full story ]

The world of Natela Grigalashvili, a Georgian photographer, is the village of her birth. There, she learned her native Georgian, a language which she uses to infuse this unique series of pictures. Dawn, sky, "jigari" ("innards"), "sheni chiri me" ("I love you so much, you ...

28.05.2012[ read full story ]

After the success of last year’s exhibition of the photographs from the collection of the nineteenth-century photographer, Dimitry Ermakov, the Tbilisi Photo Festival is pleased to continue uncovering Georgia’s rich photographic heritage. This year, the Festival has orga...

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