The matter featured in these pictures comes from puddles left by the
tide in this ambivalent land, at the same time maritime, terrestrial,
the beach. In these little enclosed spaces arises a saturation of substances. Light, mineral, liquid, organic matter…

10.12.2011[ read full story ]

The photos belong to a series, Géométrie du fracas, taken in 2008 and 2009 during the demolition of an industrial site near the port of Bayonne. The structured compositions violently depict the gradual disappearance of the site, haunted by the ghosts of its former operators. Th...

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

For his first book, 56,000 Kilomètres: un continent et des hommes, Kares Le Roy gives a face to the people of forgotten Asia across five chapters: South-Eastern Asia, South Asia, North Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. Combining portraits, landscapes and scenes from life in mor...

03.12.2011[ read full story ]

This project arises from my childhood admiration of special effects. What interested me were the means developed to create an illusion. In this series, special effects are achieved with pitiful means: masking tape, tracing paper, staples, and all in a studio with artificial l...

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

Toby Old was born in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1945. Although he fostered an artistic vision of the world from an early age, he started out majoring in biology at Hamline University, and then moved on to the University of Minnesota where he trained to be a dentist. At the height of the Vietnam War he...

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

Born in Barcelona in 1988, Germán Peraire discovered photography at the age of 16 and ever since devoted to it. Studied photography in the Politechnical University of Catalunya and started a professional career, exhibiting in galleries and festivals arround Europe. Represented no...

03.11.2012[ read full story ]

I’m a 65 year old Romanian living in Paris since 1993. I do have now the French nationality. In Bucharest, many, many years ago, after graduating from the Art Academy, had ran away as quick as I could from the Ceausescu’s paradise. It was 1972.

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

The exhibition presented at gallery Waltman is a collection of images that revolve around the Dubailand project and have it as their backbone at the same time. Dubailand closely tracks some of the symbols that reference the action of man and his relationship with the environment of the ci...

19.11.2011[ read full story ]

12 portfolios. These are the first 12 portfolios chosen by Jean-Luc Monterosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. All the month of November, Jean-Luc Monterosso will select each weekend's portfolios.

05.11.2011[ read full story ]

Studio Edelweiss consists of Jan Matthys (1973, Ghent, Belgium) and Michaël Van Den Berghe ( also 1973, Ghent, Belgium). In the past few years we have been specializing in some kind of staged, narrative photography. Quite often these images are children's dreams for grown ups, mag...

05.11.2011[ read full story ]