Because the pool of photography is getting bigger every day with millions of images being uploaded daily, it has become a real challenge to find and enjoy the best images. It used to be that well trained professional photo editor would do most of the heavy lifting for us, finding a...

27.06.2011[ read full story ]

After 8 weeks of european press review, I’m taking a vacation. Great job. For you too, it’s holiday time. Don’t forget to read and buy magazines, it’s a difficult time for them, and don’t forget to send us your vacation pictures. I will be back at the end of August, with more reviews from Italy, S...

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

As the summer approaches, the press review by Michel Philippot turns lighter with this photograph taken in front of a boutique of the brand Desigual, which offers a new sales concept: 2 free garments for the first 100 customers that arrive scantily clad. Information for amateurs. On another reg...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

Not much of our world is really defined until we take close attention to it. Photography is the tool we use the most to bring a focus to was before unknown or misunderstood. Like a microscope, it explains the bigger picture by concentrating on a detail.

20.06.2011[ read full story ]

Michel Philippot is starting his week in music before showing us extraordinary pictures, of demonstrators, of the very popular Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or of strange collectors. Sad reality for the French, the only news about them in The Guardian and The Times of June 14 evokes Isabelle Adja...

17.06.2011[ read full story ]

It is because we compare that we are able to judge. A photograph is nothing more than a tool for comparison. When someone looks at a photograph, he compares the content with his real world information. If there is a match, many things happen : for example, the person will automati...

13.06.2011[ read full story ]

To illustrate his press review, David Schonauer has chosen the now classic kiss in Vancouver, immortalized by Rich Lam (Washington Post). The anonymous lovers have ever since been recognized.

27.06.2011[ read full story ]

Michel Philippot brings us on a somber voyage this week, taking us around the world to Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Greece… where conflicts and protests reign. When there is no question of a revolt, things turn to the Queen of England who poses for a painted portrait by David Dawson, or...

10.06.2011[ read full story ]

Can the memory of a photograph be better then the image itself ? Do we tend to embellish what we have seen and liked ? Most probably so. The memory of a photograph contains , on top of the graphic visualization of the image, the sum of all the emotions and memories lined to it : T...

06.06.2011[ read full story ]

David Schonauer begins his review with a photograph by Andrew Testa taken in Belgrade. The people of the city came together in protest against the extradition of Ratko Mladic, arrested this past May 26th after 16 years of exile.

03.06.2011[ read full story ]