What is said one day can be contradicted the week after, at least partially, and that makes me happy. The subject in question is the double-page spread in Marianne about Bangladesh. This is the story. A photographer is speaking: "Actually I am not interested to bargain on t...

24.05.2013[ read full story ]

Another shot was fired this week in the killing fields of photography. Just after announcing the purchase for $1 billion of Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo declared “ There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s really no such...

24.05.2013[ read full story ]

Persistence. Above and beyond any of all the attributes that can make a photographer great, persistence is probably number one. All the other skills needed to be a photographer can be learned, persistence cannot. Most photographers will stop shooting when faced with an obstacle, either...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

All is well. 
School bags transformed in bulletproof shields, a building collapses, a report on the survivors of the massacre in Oslo, a U.S. President clowning. This is the month of May, a month that is supposed to be full of hope. But after carefully observing the faces of ...

03.05.2013[ read full story ]

From millions, many. Is the world of photography becoming the rule of the crowd instead of the benevolent despotism of the professional editor? And who will decide? 
From the one to many distribution system that dominated the end of the last century ( one publication, many readers), we...

03.05.2013[ read full story ]

Not once since I began writing this column have I felt as sad as I feel right now. What must be happening today so that newspapers I read—newspapers which supposedly have a “visual policy”—what must be happening for them to be so devoid of pictures that mean something, instea...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

Sometimes just one image is enough. It doesn't matter how long the event has lasted, how many other images were taken. One picture tells it all. The World Press Award has become a master in revealing those images that have elevated the event in significance and propelled it far beyon...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

They say hell is paved with good intentions. In the case of photoshop, it is certainly true. What started as a software made to correct and enhance digitally made image has now become the best and worst enemy of photography. In the photojournalism world, while it can help saving imag...

19.04.2013[ read full story ]

I’m running late so I’ll be brief. “No ding, dong,” the slogan of the English who don’t appreciate the millions of pounds spent on the Iron Lady’s funeral. Did she ever meet Lakshmi Mittal when she was in office? A bomb in Boston,that was appalling, like the declarations of...

19.04.2013[ read full story ]

It would seem as though fashion trends are currently being influenced by political trends, and in this month's fashion press review we see that "shock of simplification" taking form (austerity measures on great fashion images?). But happily, spring is officially here, birds are ...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]