My name is Gabriel Coutagne. I'm 27 and live in Paris. I've always been intrigued by photography's ability to signify, first and foremost, the physical presence of the photographer himself, faced with what he sees. Limite seeks to put this idea of presence into practice, through the photogra...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

This is something different from what I usually did in photography and from what I showed around in the past years. I’ve been working basically in documentary photography trying to develop a personal approach and language, following a research about my generation.
In this case I focused on a diffe...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

My photography is based on the idea that reality is an ambivalent structure, a mental frontier between things. An undefined border separating concrete and elusive fields, materiality and the invisible. It's also a way to describe in a poetical way, our soul's inner struggle between peace and animality, bet...

21.04.2012[ read full story ]

Christian Caujolle was a critic and picture editor at the French newspaper Libération until 1986 when he created the photography agency Agence VU'. In 1988 he created the VU' Gallery and is currently a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, an independent cur...

15.04.2012[ read full story ]

Once a year undertakers from all over Europe take part in the „Devota“, a trade fair for the funeral and mortuary business, displaying a wide range of grave and tomb supplies, coffins, as well as diverse religious items.

26.05.2012[ read full story ]

Ahmet Sel’s photography series “Oriental Illusions” investigates the west’s orientalist gaze rooted in the past with reference to its relevance today and in so doing reflects on our subconscious at present.

14.04.2012[ read full story ]

In contrast to our western ways, in Mexico people not only live with faith in the afterlife, they also behave as if the dead were still with them. On the night of the 1st-2nd November, mourners and flowers flood the cemeteries, coffee or tequila is drunk, the deceased’s f...

22.09.2012[ read full story ]

In my everyday life I find the images in ElefanteCidadeSerpente [ElephantCitySerpent]. I look for traces of a urban man and I take his objects and spaces to myself. Situations present themselves in obvious casual actions. Exploring human tracks, I see just how particular anonymit...

02.06.2012[ read full story ]

11 portfolios. Christian Caujolle was generous in his first selection. He was a critic and picture editor at the French newspaper Libération until 1986 when he created the photography agency Agence VU'.

07.04.2012[ read full story ]

I'm a documentary photographer working in depth on long term projects hoping to connect and move people. In Pakistan I worked on childbirth and maternal health issues for 2 years, getting to know the role traditional midwives play, gaining the trust of women and photographing del...

21.07.2012[ read full story ]