Today and tomorrow, La Lettre belongs to you and you belong to La Lettre, from now on, every weekend. If you want to show and promote your work, these two days are for you. Send us between 7 and 15 pictures (1024 pixels, 72 dpi), accompanied by a short text including your age, your nationality, y...

10.09.2011[ read full story ]

Growing up a stone’s throw from Hollywood and Vine, I have always been intrigued by the real and the manufactured Hollywood. The staged Hollywood at Home photographs from the 40’s and 50’s of celebrities at play or at home with their families are particular favorites of mine.

08.10.2011[ read full story ]

"I once ruled the worlds. Not just one, but many. I ruled them with mirrors and lenses. I ruled them with light and shadow and time. Sometimes I ruled with a trick of the eye. Through my camera, an entire cosmos took shape, and each world within it seemed to operate by a certain u...

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There was no master plan. No carefully tended career path. I loved rock and punk music. I saw things. Puzzles intrigued me. Bugs and lizards and creepy crawly things fascinated me. Influences possessed me. There had to be a way to put it all together… and those girls in the clubs who ...

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Mario Taddeo is a photographer, lives in Benevento (Italy), where he was born in 1972. His first pictures of the place during his technical studies surveyor using the camera to describe architecture and construction, but his interests have turned to another aspect of photography that ...

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In far too many pictures I've been seeing lately, we are no longer
dealing with Photography, but with "photographic design", pictures
born out of a certain internal preoccupation, an art form that would
be otherwise immaterial, convinced of itself. But we can refer to
Cioran "al...

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My name is Rowynn Michelle Dumont. I consider myself a visual storyteller. Telling a story to me is like eating a good meal. You savor the flavor and the texture of each bite. Take it all in slow and drawn out. In the end you feel satisfied. This is what I would like to achieve with my photogra...

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My name is Paul Kwiatkowski. My photo essay, And Every day was overcast is about growing up in the 90s amongst the swamps and strip malls of South Florida.

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My name is Núria Altarriba, I'm from Barcelona, Spain and I'm 31 years old. I began to be interested in photography when I was a teenager and I've found my dad's old Ricoh. Years later I began to study photography at Institut d'Estudis Fotogràfcs de Catalunya, in Barcelona.

08.10.2011[ read full story ]

My father was a landscape photographer. I have very early memories of being in the darkroom. I think that the exhilarating magic of watching an image appear in developer in a darkroom really stayed with me. I also think that experiencing his photographs influenced my work. In a way, I was...

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My name is Leonardo Filipaz, I am 32 years old, Im from Argentina but I live in Barcelona, Spain, since six years ago. I started in Photography when I was living in London some years ago, in a very depres time for me. To do photos was the only thing that me towards feeling well, since then ha...

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My name is Jean-Marc Caracci. I was born in 1958. I am a french photographer based in Montpellier. I am French, from Sicilian roots, born in Tunisia. The series Homo Urbanus Europeanus is the fruit of 3 years travelling in the whole Europe. 31 European capitals have...

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Born in 1972, Elvire Bourgeois lives and works in Paris: "From the
reminiscences of an "ghost image", memory of a distant journey (Wind
Place of Jaipur - India, 1993) and of "seeing without being seen" came
the idea of this series.

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Amnon Gutman began expressing his photographic interest during the four years he traveled the world : « I have launched a new project in kickstarter (crowd funding site) - "Land of Hope and Dreams". It's a project documenting a Bedouin tribe caught within the Israeli-Palestine co...

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I have been a photographer for six years. Since completing my studies in photography, I have begun to understand what this profession really means to me. Working as a photographer has made it possible for me to tell, through different life stories, the story of everybody. What...

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Born in 1976 in Germany and based in Berlin since 2009, I took my first photographs with a Kodak Tele-Ektra 42 at the age of six. Having spent almost a third of my life on different continents, in various countries and among diverse cultures, trained my photographic eye and has been shaping ...

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