Exclusively on La Lettre, is the list of photographers selected for the first Photoreporter festival in Saint Brieuc. The winners will receive a grant to help them complete their projects. Festival director Didier Rapaud sent us the following text:

15.03.2012[ read full story ]

It’s a moving tribute to the late war photographer Tim Hetherington to see his images exhibited at a contemporary art festival. This initiative was led by the celebrated New York gallery Yossi Milo, who presents Hetherington’s portraits along with work by the South African photog...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

The Yancey Richardson Gallery invites this year’s viewers to be enthralled by flowers, vibrant and faded, blooming and decayed, always in their vase except for those that decided to escape. This contemporary, conceptual series by the photographer Sharon Core was inspired the...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

Several photographers here deserve our attention, beginning with the landscapes of Mario Giacomelli, who was also a painter and poet. Although his images are suffused with abstraction, their perfect composition nevertheless demands our respect. In addition to photographs by the...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

This Toronto gallery presents a trove of interesting photographs that run the historical gamut. From Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans and André Kertesz to the younger Barbara Astman and Frank Madler, this melange of genres and colors is not to be missed. Come to Piers 92 and 94 starting...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

Arguably one of the most appealing stands at this year’s Armory Show, the Mireille Mosler Gallery will exhibit a selection of famous photographs from equally famous photographers: Philipp-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Prince, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Ed Van Der Elsken and Cind...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

In these difficult times, it is more necessary than ever to recognize the interesting work coming out of Greece. The Kalfayan Galleries from Athens and Thessaloniki are exhibiting several artists from diverse disciplines, like the London-based Serbian artist Breda Beban. Althoug...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

Here’s another exhibition allowing viewers to (re)discover one of the most influential contemporary Scandinavian artists. Since the middle of the 1990s, Miriam Bäckström’s has created a body of work between reality and fiction. We discover here a series of photographs framed...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

This Gallery from Lisbon offers viewers the chance to get to know the work of the Portuguese photographer Helena Almeida. For the past forty years, Almeida has developed a body of work exploring the limits of painting, transforming concepts and experiences into images. She has...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]

The exhibition of contemporary artist Andres Serrano at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery’s Armory space is a veritable event. His photographs, taken from a new series entitled Anarchy, represent human archetypes in fictional (yet somehow familiar) scenes of rebellion. Produc...

08.03.2012[ read full story ]