Working as a photojournalist in the Muslim world is no easy task. From the well-known cases of Western journalists being attacked during the so-called Arab spring in Egypt, to the numerous correspondents killed in Syria and Libya, the work of these professionals is becoming more...

12.04.2013[ read full story ]

I recently photographed the interior of the old abandoned Linda Vista Hospital in Boyle Heights Los Angeles, California. 
It was originally built in 1905 as a railroad hospital to care for the Santa Fe railroad workers who had been injured on the job. Twenty years after they c...

08.04.2013[ read full story ]

We met in a country as alien to me as it was to her. InGreece. She is German and I French. The moments of intense friendship we have shared remain our common ground. It was there that our work together tentatively began, work which has since been guided by a single concern : reporting t...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

Since 1989, photographer Thierry Bouët has sent postcards to his best friend, who never replies. Each postcard is manually prepared by Bouët in the same way: a picture made by the photographer on the front, a message on the back, and a carefully chosen stamp. These postca...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]

Trained both as an artist and scientist, Deanna Witman searches for metaphysical understanding and meaning amongst the rocks and trees. She chooses to work with the pinhole camera because of it’s capacity to experience time, place, and spirit. Moving the shim across the pin...

11.04.2013[ read full story ]

I was lucky enough to get to meet Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching in their 111 Front street gallery in Dumbo just one week before their first show at AIPAD. I was even more lucky to be able to peek at the mock up they made of their booth...

03.04.2013[ read full story ]

We often perceive slums as dark dens of poverty and despair, where criminals, juvenile delinquents, and squatters wander aimlessly amongst ramshackle, makeshift structures. We draw a clear distinction between the slum dwellers and ourselves: they are the “other”. This is how...

09.04.2013[ read full story ]

I’ve already introduced the brilliant work of Thomas Sauvin who is a Beijing-based French artist and also a photography collector. On the occasion of St. Valentine’s Day, to make a “celebration of love” I selected some images from Sauvin’s “Silvermine” project from...

01.04.2013[ read full story ]

Recently I went to Daytona Beach, Florida to the annual Bike Week 2012 rally—however this time it was not as a biker but as a photographer. I was not looking for old friends but only their ghosts—the symbols and relics from my younger days. Bike Week is where bikers on the east coast o...

01.04.2013[ read full story ]

Portraits of unknown persons, looking at the lens, at the photographer behind the lens, at the viewer through their impression on paper. Faces as individual, unique and singular beings. Various sources of light, which light, by nature, is born on every human face. Light which m...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]