It’s name makes it sound like it is static and rigid. It also makes you feel that you are about to enter a world of mass produced cliche images that will be as exciting as staring at a blank wall for a few hours. Don’t be fooled.

16.02.2012[ read full story ]

You don't teach an old dogs new tricks. Or do you ? While you might think you have seen everything about pet photography and you are now officially bored with any image of dogs, think again. There is something new.

13.02.2012[ read full story ]

After a few weeks off, I’m delighted to return to my modest column here on La Lettre. Then came the tragic news that robs me of all my lyricism (if I had any to begin with). Rémy Ochlik, photographer, and the reporter Marie Colvin died in the line of duty in Syria. All...

23.02.2012[ read full story ]

Color us international. The world around is so vast and yet so small that there is no reason not to explore beyond our physical boundaries. Sitting around on a chair, sofa, floor or your favorite wifi cafe, wherever it may be, using a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone, one can be transported...

30.01.2012[ read full story ]

The weekly visual tour of the world begins far, far, away…on the sun, where a massive solar flare sent a cloud of superheated gas and charged particles hurtling at us. The incoming radiation made flying at high altitudes over the North Pole a bad idea, but photographers and oth...

27.01.2012[ read full story ]

Mikko Takkunen is a talented photojournalist represented by Reportage by Getty Images. Based in London, this 33 year old, originally from Finland, has been published in the most prestigious publication worldwide. Like any other photojournalist, he loves to look at his peers' work. But unlike ...

23.01.2012[ read full story ]

Apparently less than 5% of La Lettre readers noticed the grass moving
in Jamie Beck's picture published yesterday. Look carefully, it
moves!

17.01.2012[ read full story ]

It was not long after the invention of photography that artists decided to tinker with it and started discovering what else, besides copying reality, could be achieved. Man Ray, for example, realized that a lot could be done in the dark room, and thus spend more time in post production than ...

16.01.2012[ read full story ]

It has been a week with a hangover, my apologies for being trivial (but I am not about to treat you like idiots), not for me, but for the magazines. Hey, wake up photo departments, jump in the saddle, there are excellent photographers around the world taking excellent pictures, why wait for...

13.01.2012[ read full story ]

Happy new year once and for all! It is the year of all dangers, but since "someone" is taking care of us, we have nothing to fear. A year that had a terrible start for traditional photography with today, the venerable Kodak house of Rochester, risking eviction from the New York S...

06.01.2012[ read full story ]