“A photograph is an entity. You don’t crop it, you don’t butcher it, you don’t plaster text over it, you treat it with dignity.” Elisabeth Biondi has left an indelible impression on all of us throughout her powerful career at four of the most influenti...

11.03.2011[ read full story ]

“There’s clearly a reason why kids are hanging out here all the time, everyone is here for s different reasons,” observes photographer Eric Johnson. There are so many stories in his midtown loft, which transforms in many ways. It’s a gallery, a disco, a lounge, a photo...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

William Klein’s son Pierre, 47, is a director, photographer, and painter whose movies, books, and exhibitions have influenced cinema and photography. He grew up in the intensity of this vast heritage that seemed to carve out his future, after first turning away, he came back, attr...

08.02.2011[ read full story ]

I have been inhabited by L’homme au Chapeau Rouge (Man with the red hat) ever since I saw it this fall at the Françoise Morin Gallery. It remains in my shadow. On a sunny day in 1987, Bruce Wrighton (1950-1988) was taking pictures at t...

04.02.2011[ read full story ]

Nadav Kander is exhibiting together with Robert Polidori at Camera Work in Berlin. For La Lettre, Thomas Erber talked to him about his award winning series Yangtze – The Long River and the importance of exhibiting.

31.01.2011[ read full story ]

His father, Henri Bureau, is a photojournalistic legend. For more than twenty years, he has shared that passion with his son, Martin. Martin now works for the AFP. In the new serie in La Lettre, ”Sons and daughters of…” – where we introduce you to a second generation photographers, he ...

31.01.2011[ read full story ]

After fifteen years of unrelenting work for the recognition of Russian photography, the passionate founder of the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow talks about her taste for art.

28.01.2011[ read full story ]

JR. This alias reveals the humour as much as the acute awareness this photographer has of his actions. To adopt the initials of the archetype of a despicable character from the television series «Dallas », symbol of capitalism at the height of its most egotistical form, is to want to chall...

14.01.2011[ read full story ]

In 1995, after nearly 20 years as a photographer whose installations grew more and more refined, Bernard Faucon announced that he was abandoning photography, presenting a collection of small format phrases, ranging from philosophy to poetry, in white China ink, tattooed onto yo...

14.01.2011[ read full story ]

Sarah Caron published two books about Pakistan in 2010. « Pakistan, land of the pure », a small book full of major pictures and « Pakistan à vif » (Pakistan on the edge), a long photo essay about about a country that frightens and fascinates. The result of multiple trips for this ph...

14.01.2011[ read full story ]