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’...

09.10.2012[ read full story ]

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...

04.10.2012[ read full story ]

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...

04.10.2012[ read full story ]

Except for two of them, these photographs have never been published before. They were taken at the Factory in 1982 by a flamboyant photographer, now forgotten, who died in the 1980s: Pierre Houles. We’ll have more to say about Pierre later, but in the 1970s...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

'For a location to become a memorial… what matters is the fact that something artificial happened, some act that will mark the space.  This artificial act is possibly the simplest form of what a monument is.’ Darian Leader, The New Black. In 2009 I traveled to the US for research, and began ...

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

"Welcome to my hood “ 
A trip to Milan, a backstage extravaganza by Michel Haddi. 
The war zone without all the collateral damages, just some sweet gossips amazing girls looking a million dollars. A dream machine in a dream factory.

26.09.2012[ read full story ]

I thought it would be interesting to shoot a group of people looking like rioters but throwing flowers, recreating Banksy’s iconic image.
I’ve loved Banksy’s work and decided that instead of just the rioter that I would recreate a number of his famous works. 

26.09.2012[ read full story ]

"This is not the first time I’ve watched this man on his bench by the Staatsbrücke. He lies on his belly and seems to sleep. I want to take a picture of him,and when I finally bring myself to ask him whether I might bother him for a minute, he says no. Later, he tells me that he t...

26.09.2012[ read full story ]