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 ]

Life is always a hard balance. Wether we convert to banality or we run towards the untravelled paths, we always try to find the right equilibrium, the one that set us in motion. More than often, we seek objects to help find this precarity that we so love to discover. Photography certa...

01.06.2012[ read full story ]

In the end, it's all in how we depart. Whether it's facing the raging seas, or inside a limousine, surrounded or not by friends and family grieving, we are only truly alive when we engage ourselves in something new. It's all about what we have just finished and what we are about to emb...

25.05.2012[ read full story ]

For me, the final days of the past week were fabulous. Three days in Sète, c’est à voir, is unusual and unique. Finally, an unpretentious festival, where kindness, friendship and sincerity were fundamental, a festival growing year to year, maturing its content and presentat...

25.05.2012[ read full story ]

Coney Island is a world unto itself. It is a time and place that exists independent of everything else. Situated where South Brooklyn meets the Atlantic Ocean, it is an urban fantasy of beachfront life. It is equal parts escapism and entertainment, strange and seedy and strikingly American...

25.05.2012[ read full story ]

It’s been over a week since the presidential elections in France, and after a very tight race between the two opposing candidates, the politics here will take on a very, very different perspective.
Which is exactly what Terry Richardson was aiming for in his sh...

21.05.2012[ read full story ]

It's always a busy week in photography. This weeks takes us for the edges of the middle east ( Yemen) to the land of the rising sun ( Japan). From the frightening to the beautiful, for the high tech to the 2,000 years old tradition, there is a lot for talented photographers to find and...

18.05.2012[ read full story ]

It is precisely in journalism that the two tendencies combine and become one. The expansion and the diminution of education here join hands. The newspaper actually steps into the place of culture, and he who, even as a scholar, wishes to voice any claim for education, must av...

18.05.2012[ read full story ]

And you thought that the only things they could shoot was bullets. Think again. The US army, along with most majors armies of the world have understood, a long time ago, the value of photography. First used to show self engrossing pictures of generals surveying their victorious troops, it has...

07.05.2012[ read full story ]