Technically speaking the so-called “White Nights” (Beliye Nochi) are not unique to St Petersburg, but only here the northern nights have received such a poetic acclaim. What could be more romantic than walking along rivers and canals when night is as bright as early evening? It i...

23.02.2011[ read full story ]

Tuesday, May 25, 2010, the Commercial Court of Paris pronounced the liquidation of the Corbis Sygma corporation. Counselor Gorrias had been appointed liquidator and had taken over the wreckage of the press agency created by Hubert Henrotte in ...

21.02.2011[ read full story ]

The Moderna Museet of Stockholm is organizing a retrospective of the work of French photographer Jeanloup Sieff (1933-2000). We are proposing two texts, an english version from La Lettre by Anna Tellgren, curator and commissioner of the exhibition. The other version, in french, by jour...

22.02.2011[ read full story ]

20 years have passed since Serge Gainsbourg has taken his final bow. An immigrant’s son who loved to tangle up the French language, using slang and juggling words, he also loved to play with his personal image. Belgian gallerist Roger Szmulewicz, a true Gainsbourg fan,...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

First, let me make it clear that I’m not a man-hater, I don’t advocate violence towards anyone, let alone men, on the whole, I rather appreciate them. I’m not psychologically scarred or disturbed or tormented – I’m just a doll photographer with a subversive sense of humour.

22.02.2011[ read full story ]

Born in 1983 in Moscow. As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and to spend a lot of time reading is father’s fashion magazines. At the age of 13, his parents offered him his first computer set up with a...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

The French National Library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is devoing an exhibition to Henry de Monfreid (1879-1974), one of the most famous travel writers of the 20th century. Thanks to a donation by his heirs to the Geography Society (Société de Geographie) of an ens...

22.02.2011[ read full story ]

Karlheinz Weinberger was an unknown Swiss photographer. Rebel Youth, his first posthumous publication dedicated to his work, gives homage to a Helvetian generation in search of their identity.

23.02.2011[ read full story ]

Nestan Nijaradze, editor of the Georgian magazine Photo, is presenting for the first time in Moscow an exhibition of six young photographers from her country. Two years after the war that divised the two countries, the exhibition is a local event. But war is not wh...

23.02.2011[ read full story ]

Conceived by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibition PhotoSculpture in Zurich’s Kunsthaus will run from February 25 to May 15, 2011. Imagined by MOMA curator Roxana Marcoci, the exhibition, featuring more than 300 current and historical pictures gathered fro...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

Tereza Vlčková, born 1983, is at present one of the most prominent female photographers on the Czech young artistic scene and her photographs have attained international fame as well. The authoress is producing series of large-format color photographs, which powerfully attack t...

22.02.2011[ read full story ]

In about 10 years, Nicola Erni has built up a unique collection on the 1960s, a vibrant era where European aristocracy mingled with painters, actors, photographers, musicians, writers, royalty and politician in places that have become mythical: Rome, Paris, London, St. Mo...

22.02.2011[ read full story ]

“There’s clearly a reason why kids are hanging out here all the time, everyone is here for s different reasons,” observes photographer Eric Johnson. There are so many stories in his midtown loft, which transforms in many ways. It’s a gallery, a disco, a lounge, a photo...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

From February 25th through April 24th, the city of Montpellier will host the exhibition “Playgrounds, fields of tension : Figures in European urban photography since 1970”, at the Pavillion Populaire.
Monika Faber, chief curator of the photography collection of the Albe...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

In September of 1952, a Russian immigrant in New York named Anatol Josepho sets up the first completely automatic photo studio. A small booth where it is possible to produce and obtain photo identification pictures without the intervention of a photographer: “8 pictures in 8 minutes for 25 cents.”

23.02.2011[ read full story ]

Until March 26, 2011, the Karsten Greve Gallery in Paris will display recent work by photographer Lynn Davis. Known worldwide since the 1970s for her famous black and white landscapes, often in large format, Lynn Davis’ current work focuses on a major project that she has been developing f...

21.02.2011[ read full story ]

Meeting Frederick Edwin Bertin for the first time can be a rather out-of-time experience. With his gentleman education and delicate manners, his passion for the sculptors Riemenschneider and Houdon, the trios of Bach, Haydn and Mozart, the Schubert Lieder...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]