Paris, 1:30pm, a September day, a restaurant on the rue de Richelieu: two couples, two tables, a dozen empty tables. Ten tourists stop in and ask for a free table. The owner quickly replies “I’m so sorry, we’re full.” The owner’s name is Dave. The restaurant be...

07.02.2011[ read full story ]

When he was born in Hong Kong on October 25th 1953, his parents, who came from north China, named him Cheung Tai Wai. He was the oldest of six brothers and sisters. He moves to Paris with his family in 1967, then enters the communal school of the rue de Beam, comes out at the age o...

14.02.2011[ read full story ]

Some time ago, Dave was recognized by the New Yorker, one of America’s most prestigious magazines. The magazine devoted 6 pages to him, signed Michael Specter, one of the stars of the magazine. The article began like this: “One evening not long ago, I wandered down the Rue de Ric...

21.02.2011[ read full story ]

Here is the fourth installment of Dave’s polaroids. With testimonies from two regulars who later became his close friends: Agnès de Gouvion Saint Cyr and June Newton.

28.02.2011[ read full story ]

When I lived in St. Petersburg I often visited the museum Hermitage.
I noticed that, while the paintings and other art objects in the museum are admired every day by thousands of spectators and are photographed endlessly, there is little attention for the ladies sitting in the rooms...

02.03.2011[ read full story ]

What magic potion made Didier Brousse bring together photographers of such importance as Giacomo Bunelli, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Pentti Sammallahti, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masao Yamamoto and Sarah Moon and the drawings of Ilona Suschitzky? We could certainly find a way to the solut...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

Bert Stern has enhanced the glamour of his images with the use of crystals, overlaid on the surface of his photographs. Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy, and Elizabeth Taylor are some of the subjects in this new technique. These unique prints are playful and inventive and enrich the iconi...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

During one week late January, the reknowned photographer Martin Parr settled into Paris’ Goutte d’Or district. The pictures he produced of neighborhood residents, merchants and meeting places were humorous and in characteristic contrast with typical clichés. His anglo-saxon point of ...

06.04.2011[ read full story ]

This marks the American photographer’s 4th trip to Cuba since the late 1990s. Cuba has historically been one of Michael Eastman’s most successful series. Faded aristocratic mansions and architectural facades carry an atmosphere of neglect and decay, while maintaining the vibrant ton...

04.03.2011[ read full story ]

“No added sugar”, “low sodium”, “grain-fed”, “no corn syrup”, “organically grown”, “grass -fed”, “full of protein”, “no fishy smell when cooking”, “old style”, “fat free”, “no artificial flavors or preservatives”, “no concentrate”, “rich in omega 3”… hence the poetry of fridge...

02.03.2011[ read full story ]

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...

03.03.2011[ read full story ]

In New York: A photographer’s city, the American megalopolis is once again stripped naked. More than 300 images by emerging artists shed light on the current state of urban photography. It’s a contemporary vision of the city that every photographer still dreams of immort...

28.02.2011[ read full story ]

These old tractors have been around since the 1930’s in the region of Auvergne. Each summer, they would work with the harvesting machines in order to collect the wheat: a rite that brought together land, machines and men. This farm equipment from the past is now at rest in the ...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

In the summer of 2009, Clic Gallery mounted Store Front: The disappearing face of New York, a photographic survey documenting the fast-disappearing mom-and-pop stores of New York City, in conjunction with the release of their book of the same title. James and Karla Murray...

02.03.2011[ read full story ]

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art devotes its five floors to one of the most controversial artists of the former USSR. From Azerbaijani origins, Rauf Mamedov takes advantage of the space for a retrospective of his work. The exhibition is organized by curator Aïdan Salakhova, herself being an...

04.03.2011[ read full story ]

Isabelle Waternaux has a unique place in French photography, this is how she describes herself: “An architect by trade, self-taught, I immersed myself into different environments. First boxing, training in the gym, and competitions. Then bull fighting, a fascinati...

28.02.2011[ read full story ]

Sumatra after a tsunami? L’Aquila after the earthquake? “I didn’t give it a thought” says Gregory Crewdson, standing in the center of the Gagosian Gallery in Rome, where his exhibition will be on show until March 5th. It’s called “Sanctuary”. This famous sanctuary is depicted in forty-...

04.03.2011[ read full story ]

Over two hundred previously unseen photographs by Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko, held in private hands until now, presented at newly branded Art Sensus as part of the first comprehensive gallery exhibition devoted to the artist’s photographic work and that of his contemporaries. Curat...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

Maske features recent photographs by Phyllis Galembo. Included in the exhibition are sixteen large-scale color prints presenting African and Haitian figures in indigenous masquerade costume. In her recurring travels throughout Africa and the Caribbean over the past thirteen years, ...

02.03.2011[ read full story ]