Nearly ten years have passed since Jean-François Jonvelle’s death on January 16th, 2002, when he was carried away by a sudden illness in a little over a week. Jean-François, “Jonjon” to his friends—and I was one of his friend—was a beautiful person and a formidable photograp...

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Jean-François Jonvelle was snatched by the hand of death with a suddenness to match the photographs that were his life. Just as that life was dedicated to capturing these stolen moments, so death followed suit, carrying him off in the midst of life. A tumour discovered in ea...

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Blood is the symbol for distress in the "…collective memory of a people who have suffered silently for generations and tolerated so much torment." Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti's statement for Slow Decay continues "The agony of which, little...

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Like Bonnard, Vuillard and Mucha, Munch was one of a generation of artists that took up amateur photography at the turn of the century. It was in Berlin in 1902 that he bought a small Kodak camera and started to take pictures. Other than a number of photographs of paintings, and a few that are so...

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From October 13th to November 19th, 2011, the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire will present Karen Knorr’s latest series, India Song, for which she received the Pilar Citoler Prize. (The prize also recognized her career as a whole.) India Song follows Fables (2003-2008),...

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From October 13th to December 31st, 2011, La Galerie Particulière will present a two-part retrospective of the work of Byung-Hun Min (b. 1955 in Seoul). The photographer’s portraits and nudes will be on display from October 13th to November 20th, followed by his la...

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Tim Parchikov was born in 1983 in Moscow. This exhibition, the result of Tim Parchikov's visual exploration as photographer and filmmaker, brings together work created in European and Russian cities over the last four years.

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Matter features a series of images in a variety of formats that blend studio, street, landscape and portrait photography into a portrait of the "new" India, an ancient culture slamming up against contemporary realities. The site of rapid change brought on by globalization and ...

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Four powerful photo essays have come to us via ZUMA Press. Started in the 1990's by Scott Mc Kiernan, ZUMA has quickly become the biggest independently-owned photo agency. In a industry that knows either corporate controlled or small, mom and pop operations, it is a rare refreshing exception....

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The 18th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados War Correspondants’ Prize was heavily devoted to the “Arab Spring”: Tunisia, Egype, Libya, Yemen, Syria...

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Every year in the small French city of Bayeux, on the northern Normandy coastline, a few miles from the beaches where so many men perished in an effort to save Europe and the world from Nazi barbarism, the City of Bayeux and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) came together to honor the memory o...

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