In “La Carte et le Territoire”, (The Map and the Territory), Jed Martins, the hero of Michel Houellebecq’s book, wanders through Paris’ 13th arrondissement, visiting the rue Domrémy, the place Jeanne d’Arc, the boulevard de l’hôpital, the Place des Alpes, and the Hyper ...

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As in recent issues, the release of “Polka, photojournalism’s magazine” is accompanied by a series of exhibitions presented at the gallery of the same name. This Spring 2011 edition, the 12th, remains faithful to its editorial origins established in 2007, the year of its creation. Among the ex...

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The exhibition is devoted to “Cavaliers of Fletcher Street” of whom Martha Camarillo has also produced a short feature film and a photo exhibition, also presented in the Polka Gallery. Martha Camarillo is a Texas-born American photographer, living in New York. She has portrayed the young a...

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Marc Montméat is a 33 year-old artist, whose work has been supported by Marc Riboud. For over 10 years he has been an insertion and probation counselor in the prison environment. In 2009, while participating in the SFR Jeunes Talents Grand Prix presided by Reza, he became known to the public...

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Polka Gallery often presents several other works by young photographers, parallely from their main exhibition, which is why this spring during the homage to Marc Riboud, we will be able to discover three different exhibitions. Under the title “Grace and Sensuality,” one part of the work by ...

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The video shown is the trailer from the film Julien Levy is presenting alongside his photographs and texts at Gallery Acte2 in Paris. Julien Levy is 28 years old, lives in Tokyo and would like for his work to be read as a giant manifesto, an actual concept manifesto where word and ...

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One day back in 1989, I received my first feature commission abroad to photograph Gainsbourg in Paris, at his house, on rue de Verneuil in the 7th district. I was a freelance photographer in Great Britain. That is how Nigel Parry presents his never before seen pictu...

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