Erosion takes a long time. Memories not so much. There used to be two groups of photographers, the casual, memory grabbers and the pros. The memory grabbers pick up a camera for family occasions or social event in order to compensate for everyone's poor memory. Unimportant is the ima...

08.04.2013[ read full story ]

I am now going to introduce 28 photographs taken from newspapers in France and abroad. How shall I go about it? Introduction is a strange word. My French dictionary defines introduire as, “the act of introducing, of letting into.” The word listed before it is intriguer, meani...

08.04.2013[ read full story ]

Ten years and hundreds of thousands of photographs, the majority never published, never seen. The Iraqi war is 10 years old and no one is quite sure how to mark this anniversary. Most US publications took the slide show route with either a “best of..” or “10 years in review”. After all...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

The last week of winter. The photo production of the last 7 days have nothing to move me, the sad gesture of a dictator as ridiculous as he is dangerous; the indecent staging of a pregnant woman whose only problem is to know wether her womb carries a boy or a girl; workers th...

22.03.2013[ read full story ]

Attending the NPPA convention, where some of the best news photographers of america converge to share experiences, tips, advices and anecdotes, one is reminded of a few key elements of photojournalism. There is much more to a picture than the picture itself : listening to photographers...

15.03.2013[ read full story ]

This letter will be as brief as the conclave held to elect the new pope, Francis. He gave himself an ordinary name but he'll always be recognizable thanks to his outfit. Apparently he's a "humble man who leads a quiet, modest life," but he's against the legalization of aborti...

15.03.2013[ read full story ]

We take comfort in familiar things. We prefer continuity to change. We are very disturbed when we are pushed out of our comfort zone and loose our pointers. Photography, it seems, is the same. Very often, a seemingly increasing trend, we see images of taken at different time and at d...

08.03.2013[ read full story ]

An excellent week for liberal thinking. Its champions were able to pour their venom over the graves of Stéphane Hessel and Hugo Chavez. These two men are hardly fit for comparison, except for the reactions triggered by their deaths. They were violent and direct for Chavez, ...

08.03.2013[ read full story ]

Writing about the past week and its pictures won’t take me long. One pope left, another pope will soon arrive. Stéphane Hessel died, but I don’t see anyone who can replace him. Much has been said about both. Stéphane Hessel has been called both a “moderate French centrist” an...

04.03.2013[ read full story ]

Whenever we find ourselves in a troubling situation, as a witness, we intervene. We either get physically involved or call for rescue, but either way, we do not remain passive. Photographers - photojournalists in particular- do the same, but not in the same way. Lately, the actions of ...

01.03.2013[ read full story ]