This series features Voodoo cult members at the Togo Festival des Divinités Noirs (Festival of Black Gods) in December 2011, and the rise of the evangelicals in Porto-Novo, Benin in 2012. Through traditional African culture, we seek visions that might provide insight into t...

14.07.2012[ read full story ]

In the spring of 1861, William H. Mumler, a distinguished jeweler’s engraver turned photographer captured the first Spirit Photograph. This was not necessarily the first photograph of its kind, but the first recorded in history with claims of visually reproducing the dead in the form ...

15.09.2012[ read full story ]

In her artistic approach, Gaëlle Abravanel explores the range of possibilities of the image through experiments reminiscent of Pictorialism, only she uses decidedly modern tools like telephones and computer screens. In her attempts to free herself from the “too real” quality of images...

15.09.2012[ read full story ]

Since 1975, 14,644 people have disappeared Italy. Four hundred each year, more than one per day. Not a single one has been found. The reasons for their disappearances rarely come to light. But all of the cases are classified in the same category: ‘voluntary absence’. Throughout the country, m...

14.07.2012[ read full story ]

When looking at photography from a historical perspective it seems everything has been discovered and nothing new will be invented. Alex Katz, an American painter, said: [Mental] image precedes a photograph. Therefore limits of possible in photography can only be established by our imaginatio...

14.07.2012[ read full story ]

These are the 5 portfolios selected by Tim Jefferies this week. Tim Jefferies has been the owner of Hamiltons Gallery for almost 30 years. In that time, he has exhibited and represented some of the world's most highly regarded photographers, including Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newt...

09.06.2012[ read full story ]

These are the first 6 portfolios selected by Tim Jefferies. He included this message with his selection: "Having spent the last three decades looking at photographs, there seems to be few surprises, however, I particularly like the work of these 6 photographers."

02.06.2012[ read full story ]

This new series is part of a project I recently began concerning Etruria, an ancient Italian region now part of Tuscany, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria. As always in my photography, elements of the landscape come together with intimacy, embracing a dimension that is at once documentary in ...

02.06.2012[ read full story ]

These are the final 5 portfolios selected by Sam Stourdzé. Sam Stourdzé is the director of the Musée de l’Elysée and the editor-in-chief of the magazine ELSE. Stourdzé specializes in images. His research focuses on the contexts of their production, distribution and reception. For several yea...

26.05.2012[ read full story ]

"Deconstructing the Churches" is a series of photo collages that are part of a larger series of photos, which visually deconstruct parts of the real world that we normally think of as stable. Sections of the photos are simply rotated out of their normal positions relative to the whole...

02.06.2012[ read full story ]