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 ]

We live on the shores of history. Once in a while, elements of the past come back to us as waves, splashing about everywhere, only to retreat quietly and fuse into the sea of things already known. Such a wave hit us last week. 
With the release of more than 300,000 historical images (800,000 ...

30.04.2012[ read full story ]

In the news, what happens off-camera is the only thing that should interest a worthy photographer . The communicators, the ones that get a Rolex after 50 years of service, and the people that that pay , don’t like what happens off-camera. Is it so revolting to show those “things that mus...

27.04.2012[ read full story ]

I’m feeling a bit lost this week, so if you can’t be bothered, go ahead and turn the page. A few minutes ago, they announced on the radio that Brigitte Bardot thinks Marine Le Pen, the right-wing candidate in the upcoming French presidential elections, fantastic, and plans to v...

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Sometimes photography is not about what is seen but more what is felt. It becomes a sensation, waves of emotions and a flow of thoughts. The best images haunt us long after we have gazed upon them not because we remember them, but because of the emotional trace they have left in us.

23.04.2012[ read full story ]