It's about the things we've lost. It was the Monday after that dreadful Friday. I dropped my kids off at school - Emma and Sam - and for the first time in my life as a mother, I worried that they may not be safe there. I felt sad, scared and angry. Because what safer place is there i...

08.02.2013[ read full story ]

People closed in for over 12 months. With very little or no information on where they will go or what will happen to them. Blankets that have never been washed for shortage of water. Bread and jam for breakfast, every day! For lunch, rice; for dinner, rice with a little b...

07.02.2013[ read full story ]

Ever since moving here, in Florida, in 2005 I have been captivated by the variety, beauty and oddities of this state with its ever expanding population. This series is a work-in-progress—an ongoing project about Florida, its people, its landscape. 
Just south of Ft. Lauderdale, lies the ...

07.02.2013[ read full story ]

Bastion of Liberalism, world financial centre, multi-cultural city, London has always shown herself to me as an exhibitionist. Bursting with exuberant growth and free from complexes, London presents unpredictable contrasts. Her disorderly modern architecture shoots up all over th...

01.02.2013[ read full story ]

I photograph people I find elegant. Their elegance has nothing to do with fashion. Combining industrial clothing with traditional tribal elements (jewelry, scarification), these people exude simple grace. What I feel in these encounters is an awareness of being. They li...

04.02.2013[ read full story ]

I tried to capture the beauty of both the human body's figure and its motion. 
The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000 individual photographs of a dancer. By putting together uninterrupted individual moments, the resulting...

04.02.2013[ read full story ]

I didn’t set out to make portraits, urban landscapes, or even street photographs. 
Looking back over the work, I see evidence of myself reflected in these images. 
A search for self was evidently taking place. When I observe how I framed the images through windows, and with lenses...

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Sylvain Stym-Popper (1906-1969) studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Paris, earning an architecture degree in 1932. A history buff, he began his career as chief architect of the historical monuments in 1946. Among the 5000 photographs taken by Stym-Popper held in the ...

29.03.2013[ read full story ]

Roger Corbeau, born November 20, 1908, in Haguenau, Alsace, was drawn to the cinema from a very young age. He moved to Paris in 1932 and began helping with props on film sets, first for Roger Richebé, then for Marcel Pagnol. 
Pagnol hired Corbeau as a movie stills photographer in 19...

29.03.2013[ read full story ]

By the time that Médéric Mieusement (1840-1905) approached the Minister of Education with a project to photograph France’s historical monuments, he already had a considerable experience photographing architecture. He made his debut in 1859 at the age of 19, photographing the...

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