At the end of June of 2011 my paternal grandfather died, the last one of a miners’ saga. His life, and some others life, represents the history of a whole region, an architecture of emotions and signals. Up to the 1960’s the coal and anthracite catchment areas were the main resource ...

22.01.2013[ read full story ]

Even when stories have yet to be told, they already exist. But to be brought out, into the light, they require something, an event, an action. In the case of this story, what happened was I came home to find my brother Lorenzo waiting for me: “God is looking for you” is what ...

21.01.2013[ read full story ]

After spending a year locked in my room, shooting naked women lying on a bed for the series La chambre rose, it seemed like it was time to go out into the world, get lost, somewhere in the forest, and photograph a divine kind of reality, feline and feminine. I find that our illusions are as m...

17.01.2013[ read full story ]

Whether is was Saint Catherine’s Day, dining on the riverboat “Délices,” chartered for the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes Art-Deco, or for a simple children’s snack: every occasion was a reason to celebrate at fashion designer Paul...

17.01.2013[ read full story ]

On the outskirts of Delhi, we find one of the city's oldest landfills. Among these towering mountains of garbage, we meet herons, dogs and starving rag-pickers. In The Promise of Beauty, Chandran Gomes captures the unexpected beauty of this lunar wasteland. His disorienting photo...

10.01.2013[ read full story ]

In the very first edition of Le Journal (back when it was called La Lettre) we presented a selection of unpublished Kate Moss photos taken by Gene Lemuel made some fifteen years ago. Recently, other photos have been rediscovered from that same session. We have alre...

11.01.2013[ read full story ]

My earlier works were more influenced by the connection between the Duesseldorf school of photography and the American New Color Photography. Since 2009 I am moving towards digital image manipulation. 2010 marks the beginning of a new serie called "Distortion". The radical editing in that ser...

09.01.2013[ read full story ]

For Chandan Gomes, objects have a soul. 
In his series They are things I Cal Home, saris sing, walls speak, and Jesus watches laundry dry. With tight framing and saturated colors, this young photographer takes us into the daily life of a Christian family in India. The famil...

10.01.2013[ read full story ]

The photo series Performers portraits the unusual characters who acts in performance art. 
Performance art has grown out of the mainstream artistic expressions, with a small public and often with quite a difficult use of language. The conditions of direct intera...

09.01.2013[ read full story ]

This series introduces a man whose eccentric glories belong to a remote, ambiguous past. His convictions are just a cover-up for the absurdity of his everyday life. …He is the embodiment of the spirit and aspirations of a nation. This heroic figure is not history as it occurred; he is t...

09.01.2013[ read full story ]