Michael O’Brien took pictures on Tuesdays at a Catholic ministry that feeds and houses the homeless. He spent two years doing it in Austin, Texas, starting in 2006. Eighty-eight of his photographs alternate with brief sections of poetry by singer-songwriter Tom Waits in O’Brien’s boo...

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In January, the Leica Gallery in New York City opened an exhibition featuring work by two photographers who capture the pathos and mild absurdities of everyday life. One of the photographers, Craig Semetko, was a former comedy writer whose new book, titled Unposed (teNeues), featu...

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Patrick Remy, critic and director of Steidl France, reveals his ideal library: ”10 books? How do you pick ten of your favorite books from a library that must hold… how many? My God! I have never counted them, and always refused the idea. It is not a race… 3000, more? It’s a my...

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Steve Schapiro, the photographer of The Godfather and Taxi Driver, is in Paris for his exhibition at the A. Gallery. Christophe Lunn and Paul Barrois met with him for La Lettre in order to evoke some of his memories on the set of these epic movies.

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Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland: Return to the Roof of the World: This exhibition of over 35 black and white images, follows the journey of photographer and Buddhist monk, Nicholas Vreeland, as he accompanied his teacher, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, in 2...

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“An American Prayer” is a poem by Jim Morrison, who would have traded rock stardom for recognition as a legitimate artistic figure in a hearbeat. Seven years after his death, “An American Prayer” was the name of a posthumous album of his poetry recorded to music by the remaining Do...

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For the first time in Russia, Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents a solo exhibition of American photographer Roxanne Lowit. The exhibition is part of the parallel program of the 6th Moscow International Festival Fashion and Style in Photography 2011.

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Till very recently, we thought that seisms as emotions were under control in Japan. It was yet impossible to imagine that the devastating Nature could punish such an admirable and calm country. That the earthquake-proof constructions could’nt resist to a superhuman force.

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The Argus Fotokunst gallery presents through May 28th the exhibition Country Road, from the photographer Clemens Kalischer. The series, a result of the artists’ trips to Virginia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia around the 1950’s, allows one to foll...

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Even before the turning point of the 1900s, among many other innovators, Vuillard, Bonnard and Degas began to use photographic cameras to use what only seems – in the eyes of their contemporaries – simply a technical mechanism foreign to the ...

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On the occasion of the 66th anniversary of its liberation, the former concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora in Nordhausen (Germany) will host the exhibition Displaced Persons, by the German photographer Clemens Kalischer. The series, composed of pictures dating fr...

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In Awkward, Fullerton-Batten’s newest series, her subjects, both female, and now male approach adulthood. Her imagery places the adolescents in that moment of social awkwardness when two or more people attract. In that moment of indecision, for fear or apathy, or not knowing what t...

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Andrew George’s project, Unfiltered, consist of portraits of women that have shaved their heads. At first glance, you believe it is the same woman photographed in different angles, positions and lighting. As you look more closely, one realizes that these are individual portraits...

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Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography highlights the work of 17 South African photographers, all of whom live and work in the country and whose images were made between 2000 and 2010. Each photographer is represented by one or more proje...

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The exhibition “New Perspectives” is a prelude to a future collaboration between the Ann and Jurgen Wilde Foundation and the Pinakothek der Moderne. Its emphasis lies on avant-garde photography that forms a major focal point of the collection. Each of the nine protagonists,...

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The monumental Château de Malbrouck, a historic castle built in 1419 by Arnold Vi, Seigneur of Sierck, is for the first time dedicating its entire exhibition space to photography. Dominique Laudien, castle director and exhibition curator, selected Rober...

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The Karsten Greve Gallery in Paris is exposing a most unexpected and innovative collection of works associating photos by Brassaï and both canvas and paper works by Jean Dubuffet. Works on which or in which he incorporates “material elements of dail...

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When authorities in North Korea’s capital of Pyongyang returned Back Seung Woo’s confiscated and censored images taken during his visit there in 2001, the South Korean photographer was dismayed. The few they had left uncut were typical of the politically correct, bland pict...

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The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Modena is a bank that decided to invest in photography: in 2007, it began a photo and video collection by Italian and foreign artists, bringing to life exhibitions open to the public. The headquarters for all projects is the former San’Agostino ...

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The Amnesty International House in Nice opens an exhibition devoted to Human Rights defenders. Christian Courrèges has shot 20 of these defenders coming from all continents. These photographs, accompanied by a short presentation of the defendor and his situations, clearly...

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These images of the ten most beautiful abandoned amusement parks are the work of a collective of photographers reunited on Urbex France. « Urbex France is an informative blog on urban exploration and abandoned places where time has left its mark. » You can read on the French ve...

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The presentation made by France’s Culture and Communication Minister about the program for the upcoming 42nd edition of the Rencontres d’Arles was far from accidental, rather it confirmed the Minister’s dedication to photography. In closing, he revealed that several announcements would ...

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The pictures taken by British photographer Jimmy Hare in Ciudad Juárez in 1911 lead one to question whether there isn’t a book missing about photography and revolution, that would include pictures taken during this historic period?

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In the series Summer Memories, it is mainly the notion of time that passes unrelentingly, that of the fragmented memory as explored by Marc Chatelard. The photographer invites us to remember our summers, our journeys, our holidays by the sea. Beaches and vacat...

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