Louisiana is an intriguing state, from its cultural diversity and fraught history to its swamps full of alligators and ancient spirits. The heat is stifling. The faint wind barely stirs the humid air. Lafayette: betrayed by its name, evolved over the course of centuries, losing its chains b...

30.01.2013[ read full story ]

Backlight is a long-term project made in the backstage of different fashion shows of Barcelona and Madrid. Behind the flashes lies a world unknown to most. A world full of emotions and joy, but also of boredom and loneliness. Very young girls, away from their families and friends, wait for...

30.01.2013[ read full story ]

Le Journal has a policy to never cover workshops or portfolio readings unless they’re free. However, we received an excellent selection of portfolios from Véronique Sutra, director of the workshop Eyes in Progress. We decided to make an exception.

30.01.2013[ read full story ]

My photographs portray life, the celebration of it and it's inevitable end. My exploration focuses on and embraces places where something seems destined for failure or have gone beautifully wrong already. My camera is looking for the cracks in normality because this is wh...

28.01.2013[ read full story ]

Exactly 12 years ago to the day I arrived at The Maha Kumbh Mela in Allahbad, India. At the time this was the largest gathering of humanity on the planet. I had waited for 11 years for the festival and within 6 hours of arriving I had all my cameras stolen but through a couple...

28.01.2013[ read full story ]

Little Big Man, directed by Arthur Penn, opens with a young reporter interviewing a wrinkled, withered nursing home resident about his alleged participation in the battle of Little Big Horn and his life during the years of western expansion. Jack Crab, the ancient frontiersman, ...

31.01.2013[ read full story ]

In this project I show, with the technique of self portrait, the ties created by illness, unforgettable ties, with yourself, with others. The intimate and quiet relationship you have with the illness, above all when therapy takes place at the home, when dialysis come...

28.01.2013[ read full story ]

All the current projects I am working with are tied up with the idea of deep alienation to the surrounding space. With the new series “Reductio Ad Absurdum” I also want to question the phantom reality we tend to create as a form of escapism from the real world. I chose kits...

31.01.2013[ read full story ]

Davos is a five-hour drive from Geneva. I live in a small country, but some places seem so far away as to be almost unreachable. January 2012. I hadn’t set foot in Davos for fifteen years, and here I was, an official photographer for the World Economic Forum, one of the most newsworthy p...

25.01.2013[ read full story ]

Hervé Coutin is a Paris based photographer.

Inspired by the rock'n roll attitude since he met rock'n roll at the age of 5 but also by a soft erotic and romantic vision of the photography. In spite of digital photography, Herve continues to shoot on film. Analo...

23.01.2013[ read full story ]