Having just finished a lovely dinner at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, sitting next to Laurie Kratochvil, the award winning picture editor and art director, I can’t help but compare the Palm Springs Photo Festival to an incredible banquet. No matter how big your plate is (the hours in a day), it ...

10.04.2012[ read full story ]

It is easy to see within a few minutes with Jeff Dunas, the founder and Director of the Palm Springs Photo Festival, why this unique event has become a major stop on the Photo Festival circuit for serious students of the medium, both professional and amateur alike. His enthusiasm, respect f...

04.04.2012[ read full story ]

Two of the main features of the Palm Springs Photo Festival are the Portfolio Reviews (over 1100 individual reviews) with major museum curators, picture editors, gallery owners, and photo industry professionals, and the workshops with individual world renowned photographers.

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Day 6
I head back to 560 Broadway today, not to see Taki and Etheleen but to meet Corinne Tapia, a French art dealer who moved to New York several years ago to open the gallery space Sous les Etoiles.

30.03.2012[ read full story ]

Day 7
I have a meeting with Julie Saul this morning. At her home. 
In fact, I was supposed to meet with her a week earlier in her gallery but she had forgotten to bring her favorite picture. So she invited me to see it in its natural surroundings. 
Brilliant idea. 
At a typic...

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Day 5
I’d been wanting to go for a long time. No, honestly. At least ever since my university days in Paris, where I studied British literature. That’s when I learned that Lewis Carroll wasn’t just a writer and that Virginia Woolf’s little group often toyed around with image-making. Which ...

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Day 12
Today I feel I’m getting closer to the finish line. Tomorrow I’m submitting my pictures and texts of these last two months to Jean-Jacques and his team at La Lettre. My project isn’t over, but the first forteen chapters are done. 
This afternoon, I might ha...

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Day 10
Today I’m meeting Larry Miller in one of those tower buildings that house so many treasures.
The doorman calls me “hon” and tells me the gallery is on the third floor.

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Day 9
New York feels like one big party this Friday morning. It’s the weekend of all the contemporary art fairs (Armory, Scope, Volta, Independent) and I’m heading to Chelsea to feast my eyes on art and meet up with Robert Mann.

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Day 5
Cold and gray this morning. In a Madison Avenue diner, I try to get warm, but the tea I order is so hot it’s undrinkable. Oh well. I’ll have to have something to drink with Tom Gitterman, who I’m visiting this morning. Perhaps I should call him and invite him for a ...

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