Le Journal de la Photographie

Photo & Film

Clare Strand:
Illusions of a Medium

Clare Strand’s videos are "Moving Photographs". They are based on the same black-and-white visual universe with studio lighting, serving a similar purpose. At odds with the contemporary landscape that seeks extreme visual attention, reproducing a semblance of reality, Strand’s wor...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

Photo & Film

Melisa Onel: Ruya (Dream)

Melisa Onel alternates between video and photo at the whim of her artistic inspiration, with each tool offering a possible field of exploration. If photography is a testing ground, then video, with its inherent temporal dimension, is the exploration of a subject whose development under a tim...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

Photo & Film

Eve Sussman / Rufus Corporation

Whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is the most recent film of Rufus Corporation, directed by Eve Sussman. The enigmatic title defines this work whose cinematic characteristics are reduced to its matter: Super 8, HD, 35 mm, all combined in a computer driven narrative....

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

Photo & Film

Maha Maamoun
Domestic Tourism II

Domestic Tourism II is the second phase of a project about tourism, consumption and popular culture in Cairo. The first chapter features pictures inspired by stereotypical postcard images. The second is a film made of clips from Egyptian cinema featuring images and sound bytes about...

01.06.2012[ read full story ]

Photo & Film

Leonora Hamill : I was much too far out all my life

Winner of the 2012 HSBC Photography Prize alongside Eric Pillot, Leonora Hamill has also developed video work about the question of emotional identity. Her deliberately refined visual language – absence of camera movement, long takes, on-location sound bites, minim...

25.05.2012[ read full story ]

Photo & Film

Vartan Avakian - Volume 1: Arabic Home Interiors

Vartan Avakian continues his reflection on popular culture through video and photography installations that endeavor to make visible the formal and technical limitations of each medium. He dissects each of their production processes by bringing them into confrontation ...

21.05.2012[ read full story ]

Photo & Film

Ismail Bahri : Orientations

The video work of Ismail Bahri is characterized by minimalist grammar: no sound, or very little, no editing, a fixed frame, a simple scene. They have a photographic aspect inspired not by documentary language but by an ordinary phenomenon simultaneously experimented by the artist. He is th...

11.05.2012[ read full story ]