My first encounter with art was via the theatre ,while I was studying in the Wrocław Theatre Academy 1991 – 1995. From 1996 – 2002 I collaborated as an actress with Warsaw theatres like Dramatyczny, Narodowy, Scena Prezentacje and Na Woli. I was an actress but I was also pres...

22.10.2012[ read full story ]

I entered Syria from Turkey on September 22 with the purpose of heading directly to Aleppo, where fighting raged on for the key financial centre. The plan was to cover a Free Syrian Army-controlled area in the besieged city, and the battle along its front lines. As I drove from t...

23.10.2012[ read full story ]

It has been almost a month since the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the U.S. embassy in Cairo, sparked by the now infamous anti-Islam video that stoked violent protests across the Muslim world. In Egypt, where the protests began Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 ...

17.10.2012[ read full story ]

From 1931 to 1934, just before the major protests led by the Popular Front, François Kollar (1904 - 1979) traveled across France meeting its working population. This wide-ranging survey of the working world, which featured 1400 illustrations, was published in 1934 in booklets ...

23.10.2012[ read full story ]

Energy caught in flight, formed into self-portrait, is part of a work I began six years ago. The quantum physics of my work is expressed in the permanence of the framework, which simultaneously maximizes the potential of the multiple times of the being. A time of expressi...

01.11.2012[ read full story ]

In Chicago, 1950, Simone de Beauvoir had a torrid affair with the American writer Nelson Algren, with whom she experienced a kind of sexual awakening. Art Shay, a photographer for LIFE and Time followed Algren an interesting character. On a very hot day in Chicago, Simone, dripping...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]

Borquez's intention is not to put women on display. He discovers his models during photo shoots and castings, or even out on the street. More than just mere objects in front of the camera, his models unveil their characters in their unrehearsed poses . The triumph of femininity cou...

17.10.2012[ read full story ]

This photographs show some aspects in the area of public and private mental health in Indonesia. The country has 240 million people, of whom 4.6% suffer from severe mental disorder.
Impressive: only 48 psychiatrists are active in that country, while patients overcrowd ...

16.10.2012[ read full story ]

There are silent photographs, those which pay tribute to nature, not to its thunderous sublimity, but to its simple and noble beauty, when its characters are torn for an instant from the brutal frenzy of their daily lives. This is the case for the photographs of Kevin Kunis...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

Last summer, we met Jérôme Bryon in the streets of Arles, carrying with him a replica of his exhibition at the Galerie Vieille du Temple in Paris. The photographer continued his astonishing experiment of inviting visitors to come to Paris to see his exhibition, which closes to...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]