A change of scenery at Françoise Huguier’s set-up. The colors are flashy and the atmosphere is more pop. The space is also more intimate. I’m greeted by Eléonore, her intern, and Julien, her assistant. At last the photographer arrives. A mother and her son are posing. By a curious co...

10.10.2012[ read full story ]

Rip Hopkins is set up amidst the uproar of the children’s books section. He’s chosen to use an overhead projector in order to change the background for each portrait. Rip shapes his subjects into different poses. The rendering is unique, very cinematic. “I asked people to touch each other ...

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A motorcycle, a 1950s sidecar, a red curtain and music: Stan Guigui is having a good time. He’s even providing helmets, sunglasses and leather jackets for everyone coming to have their pictures taken. Stan is very comfortable with people, and the families let themselves go, regardless of th...

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The day ends with a cheerful Denis Darzacq. A minimalist, the photographer has chosen a white backdrop and a few geometric pieces of furnitire, which he arranges according to the subject: a cube here, a person there, a sphere here, another person there... The families love it and play along.

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Juan Manuel Castro Prieto had spent three days at the Fnac studio, but he was still in great shape. “It’s an interesting experience,” says the photographer. “We see a lot of people, sometimes they’re alone. I like it when people are receptive and involved. It results in lovely i...

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About Dying takes place in the space between death and burrial. It’s a peak into the world that we hardly ever see, although it is one of the only things we all share regardless of gender, nationality, age or language. Here are lying women and men, girls and boys on ice, becau...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]

Pie Town Revisited is an exploration of history and memory through photography. Pie Town is a remote community on the Continental Divide in New Mexico, about 160 miles southwest of Albuquerque. Population: 70, maybe. It has no stores, no sidewalks, not even a stoplight. It’...

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For the exhibition Les Sieff at Colette, Sacha Sieff, the musician of the family, has produced a mixtape/collage inspired by his father and his work, using recordings his father left behind on vinyl, cassettes, reels and VHS tapes. Sacha took the voice of his father and those of his...

04.10.2012[ read full story ]

Let’s paint a portrait of the portrait artist. Sonia Sieff casts the silhouette of a biker, fearless and free like those women reporters of the 1970s surveying the battlefield, looking like one of Simone de Beauvoir’s dreams made flesh. For this type of woman—women with eyepieces and dar...

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Long before marrying, Barbara Rix was already a photographer. From the moment she arrived in Paris, because she lived with a war correspondent, because she became a model, and because she herself examined the world with the Leica she wore slung over her shoulder, Barbara had lived i...

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