“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 ]

As countries develop, a global homogeneity is also developing. A way of life can be found that traverses specific culture. For example, experiencing a shopping mall in Dubai, the US, Europe and China can be quite a familiar one containing similar spacial experiences. Shiny gl...

20.06.2011[ read full story ]

Denis Dailleux’s new book Impressions d’Egypte is a dream-like portrait of the country he has been intimately involved with since 1992. “I fell in love in Egypt, with Egypt” says Dailleux. “I discovered the pleasures of the oriental luxury, eveni...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

Melanie Light is an American writer and former co-founder of Photovision, a non-profit organization devoted to promote documentary photography. She also teaches. Her last two works are Night at the Met with photographer Larry Fink, Mad Day Out, on the B...

16.06.2011[ read full story ]

It is difficult to write or talk about Malick Sidibé. There is the risky stereotypical description of him as one of the greatest African photographers of his generation, or worse, an amazed description by those saw his Bamako series from the 1960’s and ‘70’s, wi...

17.06.2011[ read full story ]

It’s hard not to think of Richard Avedon when looking at Li Hu’s Coal Miner and Happiness work. He captures the hard working, soot-covered individuals immersing themselves in a profession with many safety risks. It’s an all ...

13.06.2011[ read full story ]

For our Beijing correspondent, Li Hu is a photographic discovery. A survivor of the Third Indochina War and the Cultural Revolution, he retired at the dawn of the 21st century to become a photographer. Below is the interview with CYJO.

13.06.2011[ read full story ]