My mind was set on visiting the Tate Modern over the weekend. I wanted to finally see the installation of Taryn Simon’s A Living Man Declared Dead. I had already flipped through the book a couple of times and pondered whether or not I should buy it—due to its con...

26.10.2011[ read full story ]

When Daniel Birnbaum became director at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2011 he took the radical step to rehang the museum’s whole collection: out went the Rauchenbergs, the Duchamps and the Kleins and in came Cindy Sherman, Duane Michaels and Larry Clark.

17.10.2011[ read full story ]

The first U.S. exhibition of over 500 photographs from W.M. Hunt’s extraordinary collection will open at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film on October 1, 2011.

30.09.2011[ read full story ]

Karim ben Khelifa, 38 years. Photojournalist for 15 years, with many publications in the international press. He lives between New York and France.

29.09.2011[ read full story ]

Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, author of After Photography, former editor of the New York Times magazine and founder of the photojournalism program at ICP (International Center of Photogr...

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

Although Japan’s March 11 triple disaster is long gone from front-page news, conditions there remain dire. Tokyo-based, Czech photographer Martin Hladik is hoping to maintain awareness of the disaster’s effects, and the residents struggling to survive.



28.09.2011[ read full story ]

“When I play music, I’m just exclusively focused on the music. When I’m taking photographs, I’m exclusively focusing on that. There’s not a lot of interdisciplinary stuff going on in my head.”– Moby

06.09.2011[ read full story ]

It´s fashion week in Berlin and the museum The Kennedys is lending its walls to Martin Schoeller’s famous close-ups of celebrities like Angelina Jolie, Paris Hilton, George Clooney and Barack Obama. La Lettre’s art director talked to the photographer before the opening on July 6....

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

Anne Wilkes Tucker was named “America’s Best Curator,” by Time Magazine a decade ago. Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, may now be one of the foremost Curator’s of Photog...

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

The definition of a beautiful woman has always been a topic of discussion with varied answers primarily due to culturally specific tastes. Women in the Ndebele tribe in Africa and the Kayan tribe in Burma celebrate elongated necks decorated in striated metal rings as a form o...

20.06.2011[ read full story ]