For the third consecutive week, we present Zmâla, a magazine like no other. Before being an object to be purchased in a bookstore, it represents a movement. In 2003, Jean-François Leroy, Director of Visa pour l’image, devoted a room in the Perpignan’s Palais des Cong...

04.10.2011[ read full story ]

December 2010. Protests take hold on a long-term basis in Tunisia and the dictatorial regime of President Ben Ali, in place for twenty-three years, is shaking under the pressure from the streets. The revolution is covered by the news photographers and the agencies at the scene. The photos of the d...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

To go away. To leave everything behind. To emigrate to another land. The dream land. The welcoming land whose wealth holds out its hand. Those who exile themselves from their native soil, which has become too inhospitable, too dangerous, have a perpetual story to tell: that of migrant travelers...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

Franck Boutonnet, of the photography collective ITEM, traveled to Argentina to create “Conscienza,” a photographic essay documenting a poetic and political vision of Argentina, a country unafraid to confront its past, demanding an examination of its mistakes and admission of its crimes. Even in an uncer...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

They have very little power of speech, if none at all. Their particular body movements are an expression of their personality and seem to come from a make-believe and poetic world. These ‘non-verbal expressions’ are those of a body that immobilises them.

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this project depicts a country in search of identity, a land and its people, stuck between a soviet past, an unrecognized present and an uncertain future.

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

Through an ironic manipulation of identity, Je suis Winnie l’Ourson (I’m Winnie the Pooh) seeks to arouse some thought on the stigmatisation of the Other by presenting the fears that surround it. Rome, the birthplace of the project, is a breeding ground of micro-identitarisms and the scene of a wave o...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

In the beginning, there is the journey. There is the instinctive desire to realise, but not only that. There is also the desire to recount the journey in a new grammar form, really write it, more than just transcribe it. Such is the scale of the photographic challenge.

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

In 2011, according to the «  Estudio de Niños Callejeros » – an official study on children living in the streets- More than 10 000 young people live in the streets of Mexico city. The streets are permanent homes for all these young people mostly aged between 15 and 25 years old. After suffering...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

The 1950s was an exuberant decade that saw the birth of rock’n’roll, new fashions and social mores, and a breakaway generation – as in “Rebel without a Cause”, the famous film by Nicholas Ray starring James Dean in 1955 – who became known as teenagers.

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

When the buildings stopped growing and the small weeds took concrete's place on the streets to be built, the landscape changed. The cities' silhouette goes up and down as the stock market lines do and when the money was no longer on the move, when the money went missing, the suburbs' skies were l...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

Riva Press presents Famadihana a series on the “turning of the bones” ceremony unique to the Malgasy people of Madagascar. Ancestors are central to their conception of life, death and the metaphysical forces that rule our world. When a family member dies, his soul remains on Earth, presen...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

Movaiz Haleine, Communauté Black, 241, Pacificator, Hayoe… Hip-hop groups make up almost all the music programmes on Gabon’s television. A large part of the population can identify with the lyrics that give emphasis to their daily lives and their worries. They are young people who sing and...

11.10.2011[ read full story ]

The Japanese have always known how to come to terms with the unpredictable and violent forces of nature that have shaped their sensitivity for centuries. Earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and volcanic eruptions that are very common in the archipelago, are considered an integral part of their existence....

11.10.2011[ read full story ]