In times of war or disaster, surrounded by death, children symbolize life. Captured in photography, their suffering can be heart wrenching, but the images can also reveal their remarkable resilience and joy for life — a true inspiration. Children and War, showing at the Tokyo Met...

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As early as my first photos, I had the certainty that the world belonged to me. Everything, absolutely everything, from the red boat washed ashore to the cat jumping in mid air, everything could enter my black box, even if sometimes it was necessary to rearrange the arrivals, ...

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I had never met Daniel Boudinet, but wrote a few lines about him in Libération, shortly after his untimely death, at 45, on August 12, 1990. Marie-Claude Beaud, then Director of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, had come to the newspape...

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The 32nd Oskar Barnak Leica Prize has been awarded to Danish photographer Jan Grarup for his subject Haiti Aftermath, which recounts the consequences of the earthquake on January12th, 2010 in Haiti. When it happened, Jan Grarup traveled to Haiti on the reque...

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Bruno Mouron photographer and collector dived in his collection of over a thousand books for La Lettre. Classic titles like The Americans by Robert Frank (in all its editions), Paris La Nuit by Brassai, Photographies 1920-1934 by ...

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ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, the 54th International Art Exhibition directed by Bice Curiger and organized by La Biennale di Venezia under the presidency of Paolo Baratta, took place in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, featuring 83 artists from all over the worl...

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Sophy Rickett’s new project To The River premieres in the New Forest Pavillion at Palazzo Zenobio as an official collateral event for the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

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PIX- A Photography Quarterly is a new photography magazine edited by Rahaab Allana. The emphasis of this magazine is to look at diverse practices in contemporary photography in India. Every issue has a theme and ‘Outsider’ is the theme of the current issue. “Looking...

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