As the oldest of nine children, Julie Blackmon's work has always drawn inspiration from her family life, her extended family playing the role of both model and muse. At the same time, her work looks far back into the history of art to the paintings of the Dutch Renaissance master Jan Ste...

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On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred off the coast of Honshu, Japan. The tsunami that followed devastated the region of Tokohu over a span of 600 kilometers, claiming 21,000 victims and missing persons, and completely or partially destroying many cities and po...

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‘Matter’ is a visual record of the many things that come my way. From photographing the ordinary, to the dead and the alive, these images constitute things that evoke an impulsive emotion in me. They do not only merely determine my state of my mind, but also challenge the way I perceive my surro...

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First exhibited in Tokyo in 1979, Kohei Yoshiyuki’s twin projects The Park and Love Hotel ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance. Yoshiyuki was a young commercial photographer in Tokyo in the early 1970s when he and a colleague walked through...

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The Galerie Perrotin presents the new solo exhibition of Sophie Calle Pour la dernière et pour la première fois. A set of 14 recent films entitled Voir la mer (2011) and a new series La Dernière Image [The Last Image] shot in 2010 in Istanbul, both were presented at the Rencontres d’Arles ...

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Mehdi Meddaci was a revelation in this year’s Recontres d’Arles, where he presented a sound-video installation on five simultaneous screens. This impressive work was a striking visual and sensory experience. Here is an excerpt.

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Our photographs draw their inspiration from the iconography of advertisements. The characters that appear in them are young and dynamic, and the settings reflect stereotypical social success. But the photographs also show multiple cracks that undermine the image of happiness so overuse...

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Jérôme Bonnet is one of the hottest photographers around. He’s taken portraits and other pictures for Libération, Télérama, Next, Elle, GQ, Têtu, Air France Magazine, Madame Figaro, Newsweek and the Financial Times. These pictures were taken at the Cannes Film Festival for Télérama.

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As a starting point, I take two classical subjects recurrent in the history of art, fraught with memory and allusions: the nude and still lifes. The result is a strange and contrary alliance that raises questions about the relationship between nature and artifice, between body and objec...

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For thousands of years the great Yangtze River continues to nourish a long history. Everything is flowing, everything is changing – this is my impression of Wuhan. In this series of photographic works entitled ‘Wuhan-Christian Dior’, I tried to create some ordinary spaces that...

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