Something along the lines of... “Hey, how was your summer? Look at these great photos! The little one really enjoyed himself. And the weather!” Okay that’s plenty... it’s difficult not to think of Syria, of what’s happening in Aleppo. The photographer Laurent Van Der Stock sp...

14.09.2012[ read full story ]

We tend to think that summers are quiet. And while we try to spend most of our time basking in the sun, the world continues to evolve rapidly . Some of us try to change the color of our skins in order to physically mark this rite of passage, hoping to display it as a badge of honor as ...

14.09.2012[ read full story ]

It's not always the most important events that create the most stunning images. In fact, it is a rarity that both an event and it's photograph are on par . More frequently, the event is so powerful in itself that no image can really speak of its magnitude. Same goes very often with cel...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

Not much to say this week. I stood watching like Fabrice Del Dongo at Waterloo. I don’t understand and don’t really try, wondering if all this concerns me or if it will change anything. I just strike that fashionable pose with my arms dangling at my side... I read some good news in th...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

For 7 days a week, every week, thousands of photographers compete with millions of amateurs for your photographic attention. Facebook, every day, see 250 million images uploaded. Your local publication publishes at most, a few hundred. Yet, week after week, it is always the professio...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

Today on page 9 of Libération, in small print, a few pieces of news, like thinly smearing margarine on a toast: 
- Ethnic discrimination remains a reality throughout the European Union, in health care, education, employment and housing. 
- Zebu thieves are fighting against t...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

There are lot of opportunities to take photographs. Most deal with the benin, as a record of moments soon to be past. We collect the instant, we share them with those we think might care and we forget them. The cemetery of images past used to be a shoebox, it is now an old hard drive ...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

“Whoever does not like exaggeration should avoid the ocean. Middling imaginations fare poorly faced with its expanse. The ocean voids all symmetries... With its excess of clouds, breezes, seafoam, caprice and freedom, the ocean exhibits a perpetual disrespect for order.” We a...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

This was a very solemn week, the Queen’s jubilee and the much anticipated release of the French President’s official portrait. In both cases, much to see, and plenty of commentaries about both “events”. I abstain from making any judgments, and prefer silence, listening to th...

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

At the beginning of the week, I was determined to battle with the prevailing disorder, the daily nonsense, the dashed hopes... but then Syria, Quebec and “luckily” a hideous massacre in Houla forced our newspapers, hunched over their calculators tapping out their profits, to ...

01.06.2012[ read full story ]