“My photographic work has always emerged from body and stone, two elements that have appeared in my work for years. Two seemingly different materials that I sought to unite with a third: memory. Body has short term memory, marked by life’s passage.”

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

My artistic research comes from an ideal of beauty, leading me to discover unknown people with a strong inner life. Entering the other’s life, trying to understand them in their entirety brings me to study myself. The characters that affect me have something of myself, I can notice it in ...

05.06.2012[ read full story ]

The town of Ouidah - Benin is the spiritual capital of Vodun in West Africa. Vodun is their national religion. Presently there are an estimated 50 million worshippers worldwide. An important aspect of the religion is spirit possession, through which the spirits speak to the devo...

24.05.2012[ read full story ]

Last April, China exported 155.70 billion dollars of merchandise. This represents a 29.9% increase of “made in China” products over the past year. 
China has the world’s highest exportation level, but as President Mao once said, “The people, and only the people, are the creat...

04.06.2012[ read full story ]

Yamuna Walk is the photographic account of the 22 kilometers that Atul Bhalla walked along the Yamuna river over the course of four days. 
The Yamuna originates north of Haridwar in the Himalayas, flowing south-east. After passing through Delhi and Agra, it empties into the Ganges...

24.05.2012[ read full story ]

This series is part of a wider body of work that rotates around the ‘Third Sex’. 
It’s the first part of a worldwide project which through personal insights stories and intimate realities will document the contemporary world of transgenderism and intersexism . 
My Dearest Javane...

22.05.2012[ read full story ]

The Pankisi Valley is situated in the Republic of Georgia. Once part of the Soviet monolith, Georgia became independent following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately the country turned soon into a failed state where financial and political opportunists took advantages ...

22.05.2012[ read full story ]

There are two loves in Indian culture that everyone is born with… Cricket and ‘Bollywood’ … and this is not a sports book. Beyond the glitz and flashbulb glam, what do ‘Bollywood’ actors really do ‘day in and day out?’ How does life really look on the inside? The life of an actor, any acto...

21.05.2012[ read full story ]

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist in publications such as Look, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, and Paris Match. He has photographed some of the most iconic figures of our time; Muhammad Ali defeating Floyd Patterson; Lee Harvey Oswald in the Dallas basement jus...

30.05.2012[ read full story ]

Lawrence Schiller’s exhibition of over fifty iconic images of Marilyn Monroe—many of which have been newly discovered in his archives, will open at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York May 31, his first solo show in the U.S. Schiller met Monroe when he was just a 23 year old photojourn...

30.05.2012[ read full story ]