“If I were to ask to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”
– Gaston Bachelard, (The Poetics of Space, 1958)

27.04.2011[ read full story ]

Vladimir Birgus, Czech curator, photographer, teacher and founder of the Institute of Creative Photography in the Czech Republic has been interviewed by Hana Jakrlova.

26.04.2011[ read full story ]

Lijie Liu is a photographer who commits much of her free time expressing feelings and perspectives which many females experience throughout their lives. Born in 1973 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, she moved to Beijing in 2004 where two years later, her Another...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

The career of Sonia Sieff began at the age when her father Jeanloup Sieff passed away. Since she was 20 years old, she hasn’t stopped. Here is a portrait of her, by Stéphane Brasca, Editor in chief of De l’Air magazine. “I am returning to essentials”. The author of this p...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland: Return to the Roof of the World: This exhibition of over 35 black and white images, follows the journey of photographer and Buddhist monk, Nicholas Vreeland, as he accompanied his teacher, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, in 2...

15.04.2011[ read full story ]

Steve Schapiro, the photographer of The Godfather and Taxi Driver, is in Paris for his exhibition at the A. Gallery. Christophe Lunn and Paul Barrois met with him for La Lettre in order to evoke some of his memories on the set of these epic movies.

13.04.2011[ read full story ]

In January, the Leica Gallery in New York City opened an exhibition featuring work by two photographers who capture the pathos and mild absurdities of everyday life. One of the photographers, Craig Semetko, was a former comedy writer whose new book, titled Unposed (teNeues), featu...

11.04.2011[ read full story ]

In the world of Photography, there are men who help considerably the lesser known photographers. Jean-François Gallois, the director of Central Color, is one of them. Year after year, he prints for free a certain number of exhibition photos for photographers or for festivals...

29.03.2011[ read full story ]

Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo book publishers, yet remains relatively unknown. He currently lives in Santa Fe, continuing to publish books he likes, not taking into account their eventual commercial success. Elizabeth Avedon interviews this reclusive editor,...

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

A cat like Nat Finkelstein had nine lives before he died in 2009. A photographer, journalist, world traveler, animal smuggler, gun runner, drug dealer, ex-convict, revolutionary, and only God (and Nat) knows what else. Born in 1933 in Coney Island, Finkelstein studied with Alexey Br...

18.03.2011[ read full story ]