The following selection of photos from 2011 were pulled from the weekly reviews of imagery in the U.S. media for La Lettre de la Photographie. Looking back can be an enlightening exercise, but choosing from among all the photographs published this year was difficult. In the end, ...

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

Part Two of the american press review David Shonauer has worked on every week for this past year

19.12.2011[ read full story ]

Panos Pictures is not afraid. It is not afraid to tackle issues left behind by other photo agencies, not afraid of quality, not afraid to take a clear cut positions and certainly not afraid to clear its own original path. To understand Panos (or torch in ancient greek ), you have t...

15.12.2011[ read full story ]

Most might remember American Photo as a glossy magazine, lonely beacon of photography in a sea of various consumer magazine. Launched as the US clone of the french Photo Magazine, it soon became obvious that it couldn't, and should not, remain identical. It thus quickly took a person...

12.12.2011[ read full story ]

Family photographs can be your best friends. Or, if not your best, your oldest. They stick with you through hard and good times, remain poised about your lifestyle and constitute part of your memory even when you don't remember. They stand small and proud, on some curving photographic paper,...

05.12.2011[ read full story ]

This is a fabulous time of year for photography. Not only because people will buy and use more photographic equipment than at any moment of the year, but mainly because it is the beginning of the year end galleries. Every photographic intensive company, be it a publisher or a wire service, a ...

02.12.2011[ read full story ]

The weekly review of photography in the U.S. media starts in Russia, where disputed results from parliamentary elections led to mass demonstrations, and, perhaps, a serious challenge to Prime Minister and Vladimir Putin’s hold on power. Elsewhere, German Chancellor Angela Merke...

16.12.2011[ read full story ]

The spreading protest movement in the United States got its first real photographic icon this week—a pudgy college-campus cop packing a can of pepper spray. All around the country, the crackdown on “Occupy” protests resulted in imagery depicting the force of authority as a thre...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

Adam Hinton’s professional photographic career started with a knife attack. Awarded a compensation by the british government after a brutal attack at the age of 15, he decided spend the money on new lens, hardly a typical expense for that age. At 18, when he received the other part, he decide...

21.11.2011[ read full story ]

Fashion has always toyed with sexuality. Isn't it the prerogative of fashion to better expose what it is hiding ? We dress to keep warm, but also dress to seduce. That often means to put forward our most seducing features. Fashion has always use gimmicks and tricks to enhance their seducing ...

14.11.2011[ read full story ]