Vacation: a magic and sacred word for the French. Indeed, La Lettre is international, but quite a few of us are and remain French. Vacation, what a dilemma. Vacation, yes, closing of La Lettre, no. How can La Lettre stay alive for 6 weeks from July 12 to August 26?

17.06.2011[ read full story ]

Sylvie Aubenas is to photography what Mother Theresa is to misery: a Saint and an icon. She inherited the skills of a long line of otherwise unknown or forgotten curators, in the French photography world, her predecessors Bernard Marbot, Philippe ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]

Erin Trieb is probably one of the most gifted photojournalists of her generation. She has just launched a web documentary project on the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, and she is looking for funding. This is the video message that she sent us.

14.06.2011[ read full story ]

Melanie Light is an American writer and former co-founder of Photovision, a non-profit organization devoted to promote documentary photography. She also teaches. Her last two works are Night at the Met with photographer Larry Fink, Mad Day Out, on the B...

16.06.2011[ read full story ]

For our Beijing correspondent, Li Hu is a photographic discovery. A survivor of the Third Indochina War and the Cultural Revolution, he retired at the dawn of the 21st century to become a photographer. Below is the interview with CYJO.

13.06.2011[ read full story ]

It is difficult to write or talk about Malick Sidibé. There is the risky stereotypical description of him as one of the greatest African photographers of his generation, or worse, an amazed description by those saw his Bamako series from the 1960’s and ‘70’s, wi...

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1971, the Epinay congress just occurred, the united left is making progress. From meetings to gatherings to congressional demonstrations, Pascal Lebrun covered François Mitterrand’s career path, his women and men, some of whom would later be...

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Since the beginning, travel has been the object of Louis Vuitton ad campaigns, featuring the sublime pictures of photographer Jean Larivière. His images remain indelibly sealed in our memories of the Vuitton brand. To such an extent...

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It’s hard not to think of Richard Avedon when looking at Li Hu’s Coal Miner and Happiness work. He captures the hard working, soot-covered individuals immersing themselves in a profession with many safety risks. It’s an all ...

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Émile Savitry (1903-1967), a little known photographer during the “racy days” of Montparnasse, mingled with the international artists and intellectuals that Paris had to offer from 1930 to 1950. The incredible success of his first exhibition of surreali...

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PHotoEspaña’s success is for the most part due to its charismatic director, Claude Bussac, and the selections of its chief curator. After Sergio Mah, it is Cuban Gerardo Mosquera who is, for the next three years, the band-leader for this o...

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The Goethe Institute of Dakar is paying homage to the German photographer Herbert List. The exhibition is composed of 100 photographs. Herbert List was born in 1903, in a family of traders. In the framework of his training within the family company of coffee importation, he t...

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Born in 1984 in Tehran, Arash Fayez is currently studying Architecture in Soureh University whilst being a professional photographer. About his work, Ramblings of a flâneur, Sohrab Mahdavi says in an essay : "Let’s start with the most obv...

14.06.2011[ read full story ]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother is the last book by Katharina Brosse. After six years in New York, the artist returned to live in Germany where she gave birth to two babies in four years. This double change in lifestyle is coupled with ...

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Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is undoubtedly one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He was inspired by the sculpture of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and translated this aesthetic to a time and culture of his own, namely New ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]

Michel Philippot is starting his week in music before showing us extraordinary pictures, of demonstrators, of the very popular Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or of strange collectors. Sad reality for the French, the only news about them in The Guardian and The Times of June 14 evokes Isabelle Adja...

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“It’s half way between Arles and Perpignan.” Of course that description is meant figuratively not literally, but that is the way Nick Nichols, the photographer who originated the event that became Look3, described the Festival to me Wednesday evening. For t...

13.06.2011[ read full story ]

Shortly after the Second World War, Henri Salesse began working as a photographic operator at the Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism (MRU). MRU production, similar to the photographic work produced by the American Farm Security Administration (FSA), wa...

14.06.2011[ read full story ]

The three “insight” or featured artists at this years Look3, Antonin Kratochvil, Massimo Vitali and Nan Goldin, each had a small gallery show and then showed a larger body of work, spoke and answered questions in a two hour session at t...

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Kathleen Grosset, former director of both the Rapho press agency and Saphir (Syndicat des Agences de Presse Photographiques d’Information et de Reportage, was elected on Thursday, June 9, 2011, to run the French Federation of Press Agencies (FFAP) fo...

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For the seventh year in a row, the Promenades Photographiques will take place during the summer at Vendôme. This small county in the Loir-et-Cher region will host until next September 18, more than twenty exhibitions devoted to photography, via a walk thro...

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