When he was 10, someone gave him a cheap Kodak camera and he started taking photographs “without really thinking about it.” When he graduated in psychology he realized he didn’t want to be a psychologist. While in this void, a friend of his took him to a dark room and he remember...

22.05.2013[ read full story ]

Somaly Mam is radiant, a light, a fire, a flame. She blazes a path, one woman set to change the course of the world so long as she walks the earth. Orphaned at a young age then sold into a brothel in Cambodia around age 12, Somaly Mam knows the truth about the slave trade. She not onl...

21.05.2013[ read full story ]

Two years ago we published Elizabeth Avedon's wonderful portrait of the publisher Twin Palms. Jack Woody is also one of the cornerstones of West Coast photography, which is why we have decided to publish it again today. Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo book publis...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

In the 80’s, Daniel was working in a bookstore where he says photography books existed mainly as traditional monographic books of straightforward documentary type. Photography was not an art form yet. In 1988, he joined Aperture and remembers discovering through the works of Diane...

18.04.2013[ read full story ]

Baudoin Lebon, a gallerist since 1976, has occupied the Rue Charles-François Dupuis in Paris since 2011. He studied business and only entered the art world by chance. With his demanding vision, Baudoin has set the pace for the city’s cultural life for nearly 40 years. A portrait.

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

Just in time for spring, on April 19 and 20, 2013, the French entertainment retail chain Fnac is once again inviting the public to have their portraits taken by the renowned photographers of the Agence VU’. This year, families are invited to let their colors fly for Domini...

08.04.2013[ read full story ]

The Kim Jong Phil Command Center is located in midtown Manhattan, in a studio not far from the Lincoln Tunnel. Here, fabricated human bodies are littered about, once used to make a beanbag chair that was inspired by a photograph of prisoners piled up inside the Guant...

06.03.2013[ read full story ]

Back in ‘93, Estevan Oriol was tour manager for House of Pain. His father, a photographer, Eriberto Oriol gave his son a camera, told him to take pictures. Oriol remembers feeling weird about it. “Most people with cameras were paparazzi or tourists. They take...

27.02.2013[ read full story ]

Along the kilometers of spanish coast, emptiness fills the streets, waterparks, apartments, hotel complexes and even real cities. Decades of intense urban development in the name of the tourist industry have radically changed our landscape, to the exent of turning it into a big mass...

19.02.2013[ read full story ]

Yancey discovered photography when she was in graduate school studying art of ancient Greece . She explains that her reward when she had read ancient art history all day was to look at photography magazines in the library of her university (SMU Dallas, Texas). In 1979, she wr...

05.03.2013[ read full story ]