Olivier LABAN-MATTEI Laureat 2010
This prize was created in 1980 by Roger Therond and Jean-Luc Monterosso. All French professional photographers can compete. Every two years, the prize is decided by an international jury.

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Paris Le Mois de la Photo: 57 exhibitions organized by various
institutions and Parisian galleries, events including the Paris Match
Prize or the Pictet Prize, discoveries, retrospectives, and special
favorites. This year, the Month of Photography is celebrating its
30th edition.

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It took Diane Dufour four years to make her dream come true: transform a former 1930’s brothel and horse betting house in the 50’s and 60’s, into an exhibition hall for photography in all of its current technological expressions. She gives us a guided tour of the Bal.

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During a trip to the United States, Fabrice Hergott, director of the Paris City Museum of Modern Art, met with American filmmaker Larry Clark and suggested that he present an exhibition of his photographs. Kiss the past hello shows several pictures from Larry Clark’s e...

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This exhibition creates a dialogue between photographs from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and the Musée National de la Marine.

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The exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie offers a
selection of major photographs from its collection, first created in 1980.

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This exhibition is an opportunity to explore photography of architecture, and is based on the idea of possible comparisons and similarities between two collections, on Italian and one French.

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Since its creation over ten years ago, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du
Judaïsme has regularly organised photography exhibitions (Magnum, Didier, Ben Loulou,…

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This exhibition of portraits features works taken from three Parisian
collections. Photographs from the Maison de Victor Hugo collection evoke the early years of photography and the history of portraiture between 1850 and 1885,…

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Every year since 1965, the Cité internationale des Arts has offered an artist-in-residence programme to artists from all over the world. Needless to say, the themes and works on show in the exhibition are very diverse

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Since 1955, the annual Prix Niépce has recognized the work of a professional photographer. The prize is organized by Gens d’Images, an association founded in 1954 by Albert Plécy, Jacque-Henri Lartigue and Raymond Grosset.

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This exhibition at the Musée Cernuschi focuses on a century of work at the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East) in Angkor, Cambodia.

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The exhibition is transferring from the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne and gives pride of place to photographers such as Jim Dine and Karl Lagerfeld, each of them taking over a room to display their abundant creative work and demonstrate the strength of their bonds with G...

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The exhibition Photos Femmes Féminisme 1860-2000 is a historical journey through the photographic collection of the Marguerite Durand Library.

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There has never been a proper retrospective of the work of André Kertész (Budapest, 1894 – New York, 1985) in Europe, even though he donated all his negatives to the French state…

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For the Month of Photographyʼs thirtieth anniversary, the MEP has made available a large number of works from its collections. Fondation HCB has chosen an important body of work by Harry Callahan, including photographs from the collections of the Peter MacGill Gallery…

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The Petit Palais, which has included photography and contemporary images in its exhibitions since 1998, supports Reporters Without Borders with an exhibition of its 25th anniversary album featuring photographs by Pierre and Alexandra Boulat.

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Larry Clark thinks back on almost fifty years of creativity, during which he never stopped reliving and showing the reality of adolescence: a moment of freedom and transition when everything is possible, from the love to the hell of artificial paradises, through skateboa...

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Raymond Depardon is famous for his reportage work in deprived inner city areas, for his many books where images are interwoven with text, and for his films about everyday life in a changing society…

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For over 20 years Thibaut Cuisset has focused on the landscape, the environment, and the notion of territory. His photographic work has explored the whole world.

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“Someone was kicking my bedroom door: I woke up with a jolt. It was four in the morning. Two guys holding bottles of vodka insisted we got to know each other.

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All the photographers brought together here understand travel in the
old-fashioned sense. They have both time ahead of them and space around them, and the ability to knit together the imaginary and the real, far from the madding crowd of tourists.

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For its inaugural exhibition, Le Bal brings together eight of the most influential photographers and film-makers of the past 50 years. Their work experiments ways to record this anonymity, by definition an indeterminate, unremarkable notion that escapes visual stereotypes a...

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This exhibition offers a kaleidoscope of fifteen photographers and video artists from Latin America. Leo Matiz (1917-1998, Colombia) photographed people and urban landscapes for over forty years in the tradition of the Mexican school personified by masters such as Manuel Alvarez...

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The exhibition “Shadow and Light” attempts to construct a visual discourse that will make possible an exploration of what was the mexican photographic avant- garde; it also aims to bring two brilliant photographers who were contemporaries of Álvarez Bravo out of the shadows.

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This exhibition is intended as a historic account that focuses on three key periods in the country’s history: the late 1940s just before the Stalinist period, the thaw that occurred around 1956, and the late 1970s leading up to the Solidarnosc.

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The exhibition Tio Fotografer – The Collective recounts a half-century of creative Swedish photography, and pays tribute to the first organised collective of Swedish photographers.

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The exhibition wishes to compare the nudes from the early decades of the 20th century with contemporary ones. These pictures are the footprints of History, of its mores, its customs, and its conception of beauty.

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Coming from much larger “families” of visual research – for instance series as they do investigating the confines of reality and representation – the works in the exhibition reflect the same principle of incisiveness.

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Herbert List was born in Hamburg in 1903. He was the son of a Hansa-town coffee importer. In 1921-23 he studied art and literature at the University of Heidelberg.

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This exhibition presents a selection of forty images from the Maison Européenne de la Photographie collection, and includes some of Giacomelliʼs most famous works.

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Krass Clement (b. 1946) is one of the most remarkable and influential Danish photographers of his generation. All his photographs raise existential questions about the human condition

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Kari Soinio, born in 1962, uses photography as a means to explore the relationship between the male identity and landscape. His series of photographs of «man in a landscape» covers twenty years in which he ponders our view of masculinity

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As part of the Month of Photography, the Dutch Institute in Paris presents the first major exhibition in France of the young Dutch photographer Ellen Kooi.

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In the MEP collection, there is a well-known photograph entitled: “lʼenfant flou” (Blurred Child) by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier. Although Jean-Philippe is no longer here to give his opinion, we know that this image, the result of an incomprehensible accident

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Prints by Weegee borrowed from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie form the starting point for our American journey. It all begins with Weegee, “Weegee the Famous”

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These pieces by two young Russian artists reflect and express the sensitivity and anxieties of a new generation facing the present crisis and the direct and indirect social, psychological and political consequences it has on their lives and their art.

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Sexual images are very commonplace today – at least in western society. Nowadays, they are digital images, and this transformation has only served to increase their number and make them easier to distribute.

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Photography appeared in Africa in the middle of the 19th century and still its recognition as an art form is a recent phenomenon. In the Fifties, the appearance of the photo studio created a very formal relationship between the photographer and his model.

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The Pierre-Alain Challier Gallery presents an exhibition of its artistʼs work, designed to shed light on the close relationship between painting and photography.

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The rediscovery of Saul Leiterʼs work in recent years is clearly a major event in the history of photography. From being a fashion photographer known only to specialists, he has become a pioneer of «street photography» in color.

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William Klein draw his inspiration from three of his photos chosen from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. These are three vintage prints that revolutionized fashion photography in the 1950s

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Over more than fifty years, photographer Eikoh Hosoe has built up a body of work that shows a unique mastery of photographic techniques. Early in his career, he abandoned the predominant post-war documentary style

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“In 1959, I was a young lieutenant working as a photographer on board the USS Tanner. In my spare time I would explore the shipʼs library. A slim volume attracted my attention. It was Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.

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In the late 1960s, Mac Adams initiated a new departure in “narrative” photography with his black and white series entitled Mysteries depicting crime scenes

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“This will often be about geometry, two straight lines constantly intersecting. Itʼs a metric approach – geometry in Euclidian vectorial spaces. The proof is the independence of the frames within the “tableau”.

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Son of a famous sculptor, Mario Cravo Neto was born in 1947 in Salvador, Bahia. Nurtured in the cultural setting of his native city, he began his first artistic experiences very early on: sculpture, drawing, installation, photography and video.

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The Magnum Gallery is pleased to present a Raymond Depardon exhibition in two parts: Errance series, 1999-2000 and La France series, 2005-2010.

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In the early Sixties, Massimo Vitali started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with magazines and agencies in Italy and Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttman, the founder of the Report agency

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To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Paris Month of Photography, the Michèle Chomette Gallery takes both a look back and a leap forward by presenting “LE FIL”, an exhibition devoted to François Méchain

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Since he appeared on the art scene 25 years ago, Georges Rousse has never stopped travelling around the world. Like some fictional character striding across plains, valleys and mountains across the globe like ordinary mortals cross the street

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Half Life is Michael Ackermanʼs third opus. After “End Time City” (1999), a crazy journey through the city of Varanasi, India, and then “Fiction” (2001), where unity of place is shattered into a sequence of images that seem to have been made in haste between New York and Euro...

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Philippe Vermès took these portraits over a couple of years in the late 8Oʼs during two major rallies: one in Sturgis, South Dakota, and the other in London, New Hampshire.

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Cézanne executed 44 oil paintings and 43 drawings and watercolors of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Working doggedly and with passion on the motif, he introduced this mountain into the history of art.

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Photographs taken by Laurent Van der Stockt in addition to his published photojournalism. Since he started to work for Gamma in 1990, from the fall of the Berlin wall to the American invasion of Iraq, newspapers all over the world have published Laurent Van der Stocktʼs pictures.

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For the Month of Photography 2010, Baudoin Lebon presents a monographic exhibition on Henri Foucault, entitled Un monde parfait (“A Perfect World”). In these recent artworks and photographs, Henri Foucault continues his work on the representation of the body

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“Yugoslavia had had its time of peace and Man tipped the balance of history, according to his tradition, true to type. The rest of the world was surprised by so many atrocities. Presidents, warlords, soldiers and pillagers fiercely attempted to lay down their respective la...

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The Karsten Greve Gallery is pleased to present an important exhibition devoted to the American Photographer Sally Mann, born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951.

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For several years Didier Ben Loulou has been working in Athens, and this new series of photographs is the result. Although his approach is firmly anchored in reality, he remains faithful to his initial sources of inspiration

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“The first and last frontier is the one that separates us from each other. It is the moment when thought overflows the perimeter of the individual and begins to embrace the world: my breathing, my way of seeing. (…) As I thought about the theme of this work focusing on Italyʼs norther...

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On the occasion of the Mois de la Photo 2010, Galerie Pierre Brullé is glad to show for the third time in Paris a one-man show of Mohamed Camara. The gallery showed his first exhibition ever in the realm of the same event in 2002.

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As a counterpoint to the exhibition “Raymond Depardon: a personal vision of France”, the collective exhibition “France14” will be presented in the Julien Cain alley. The photographs on display are not commissioned works.

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It was the “must see" evening for the followers of VU Gallery. VU agency celebrated a large exhibition of Mickael Ackerman, opening in the heart of Le Marais, where so many famous writers lived during the 19th century.

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When I arrived in the apartment/gallery of Michele Chomette, in front of Le Centre Pompidou – where she has been living for the past 30 years, I saw an audience captivated by photographer Francois Mechain. It’s not an ordinary opening, it’s more like a private party w...

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The opening of Francoise Huguier was in the north of Paris, near Pere Lachaise. There are so many openings these days that you need to ride a Velib’ or a scooter if you want to see them all. As usual with Francoise, everything was friendly and joyful. Formats, color, d...

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Buttes Montmartre looked like Daytona yesterday night for the opening of the Philippe Vermes exhibition. Philippe was receiving his fanatic Harley Davidson friends dressed head to toe in leather outfit, in a cool, funny and relaxed atmosphere.

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