Press Review

US press review
by Paul Melcher

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Most of the time, if not all of the time, when you pick the best images of the week, you are dealing with events happening miles away from where you are. You look at them as a spectator who has limited patience for anything they don't immediately connect with. This week, things are a...

12.11.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

European press review by Michel Philippot

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This is the photographer speaking: “The meaning of art is not authenticity but the expression of authenticity. Truth alone can neither justify nor excuse it. Since the object itself is absolutely inimitable, one must always search for the only valid translation into another l...

02.11.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

European press review by Michel Philippot

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It’s been a strange week, highly representative of the mentally sick world in which we live. Looking in the weeklies we find: a bombing, a newspaper that desapears, a murdered little girl, a rhinoceros getting its horns cut off (to prolong his life), the beginning of the Haj...

29.10.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

US press review by Paul Melcher

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Emotions. Where do they go when everything is done and the lights are out ? What happens to these instant of joy, sorrow, pain, love and emptiness once the moment is over and the stage has been cleared? They can be recounted, sometimes, partially, with our words and our hands, if we ar...

29.10.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

US press review by Paul Melcher

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For some, photography is a tool to depict news, another pencil, or keyboard. With a 1,000 words per image, it is quickly said, explained and then forgotten. So, in order to remain on top of the news, images become more spectacular, more gruesome. The more the blood, fires, destruction,...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

European press review by Michel Philippot

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I was prepared to explain my choice of photographs this week. But the news I heard on the radio cut me short: a large international company is going to eliminate 5,490 jobs across the world, including 1,430 in France. In response to this news, the company's stock value rose b...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

European press review
by Michel Philippot

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Photography is in trouble. The “experts” say so. To be serious, you have to give up a certain number of postures. First, to claim oneself an “expert” in photography. Many of them claim to be such even though they’re just gravediggers, having failed in their editorial and ...

08.10.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

US press review
by Paul Melcher

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7 days. That is exactly the amount of time that separates the events you see today from those you saw last weeks. Not enough to have remorse and too young to be real memories. Events follow and push each other even faster now that everyone has a camera. Or, more to the point, now th...

05.10.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

European press review
by Michel Philippot

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This week I must ask for your forgiveness. It wasn’t easy to show you a pumpkin farmer acting like a gondolier. What’s the point? Should I feel guilty showing you such an image? Certainly, yes. And yet it’s such a pretty picture for millions of avid photo watchers to enjoy.

28.09.2012[ read full story ]

Press Review

US press review
by Paul Melcher

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Strange that both the Fall season and the month of September have become synonymous with fashion. From New York, to London and Milan, there is no week that doesn't see models gracefully walking a runway or frantically having their make up done backstage. It is also the month where fa...

28.09.2012[ read full story ]

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