What does the word ‘Chernobyl’ bring to mind? A nuclear catastrophy. A government lie about a radioactive cloud that didn’t cross our border. Deformed children. An utter disaster. Chernobyl is like radioactivity itself: dangerous, yet abstract. So how can we make ...

09.03.2012[ read full story ]

A young photographer, Estelle Largarde kept a journal documenting her treatment for adenocarcinoma in her breast. The journal combined pictures and text. It would have been interesting and important enough had she simply turned it into an article, a record of the treatment.

09.03.2012[ read full story ]

Derived from fairy-tale imagery, L’horloge is part of the series Les confitures, small fragments of stories rooted in childhood memories. Like Hans Christian Andersen’s heroine Thumbelina, silent and passive before life’s intrigues, the characters of these series live through enigmatic and som...

09.03.2012[ read full story ]

Philippe Dugay works on the decontextualization of objects. His constructions float between light and darkness, between reality and fiction. In this inside outside dialogue, the pictures of landscapes and interiors, taken in a tangible and familiar reality, focus on the space aro...

09.03.2012[ read full story ]

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night,” Edgar Allan Poe. This is how these girls, carried away in the air by objects, let themselves travel through boundless landscapes. Flying towards dreamed lands, making real a complete attractio...

09.03.2012[ read full story ]

This humanistic, philosophic and poetic tale was told in Chili, in the Atacama desert, in the Humberstone salitrera, producer of saltpeter until 1960 when it was abandoned for chemical fertilizers. Fallen prey to the scars of time, the streets of this old now phantom city ...

09.03.2012[ read full story ]

The photographer Natasha Gudermane was shocked by the recent French ban on the word mademoiselle (Ms.), which will no longer appear on administrative documents. She sent us this portfolio entitled "Mesdemoiselles ou les portraits intimes de parisiennes."

05.03.2012[ read full story ]

We all attended the Paris International Agricultural Show, for the occasion, we decided to publish Claudine Coupé: Breton through and through, I love the ocean, listening to the wind, traveling, laughing, discovering, dreaming and telling stories. Snow falls on a farm in Lohennec. Y...

01.03.2012[ read full story ]

Growing up, my mother Madje would rarely let me photograph her. But when her memory began to fail and I saw her beginning to disappear before me, I began taking pictures. She didn't mind at all, maybe she didn't realize I was doing it. Over the eight or ten years of watching her decl...

22.02.2012[ read full story ]

My most recent project, "Mothers and Daughters, 2011", aims to reveal the complex and challenging relationships between mothers and daughters.

20.02.2012[ read full story ]