The spreading protest movement in the United States got its first real photographic icon this week—a pudgy college-campus cop packing a can of pepper spray. All around the country, the crackdown on “Occupy” protests resulted in imagery depicting the force of authority as a thre...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

An exhibition at the Galerie Detaille tells the family saga of Detaille, three generations of photographers (with a fourth on the way) and one of the country’s most enduring studios. It all began with Fernand Detaille, who served as an apprentice for Fred Boissonnas in Geneva, wh...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

For the past year, Diane Chaudouet has been scouting out Berlin’s abandoned zones with the eyes of a “foreigner”, as she describes herself. With breathless talent and photographic elegance.
We met briefly, last summer. She was producing the first pictures of her series, I was captured b...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

New York From the Yards documents a two-year escapade, from 1982 to 1984, along the railways of the American megalopolis. The Dutch photographer Peter Spaans invites the viewer to discover his wide-angle vision of some of the five boroughs’ most characte...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

Since their construction in the mid-19th century, the imposing psychiatric hospitals across North America have occupied a unique place in the country’s architectural landscape. From 2002 to 2008, Christopher Payne visited 70 such institutions in 30 states, photographing their immense façade...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

The Transfotografia opened in Poland on October 20. Created in 2006 by Olivier Spillebout, Director of the Transphotographiques Festival of Lille, this Polish Festival aims to display the works of young French photographers throughout the country, including exhibitions in Gdansk, Gdynia...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

Though I buy books all year round, I find the holiday season is the ideal time to reflect upon the people who have influenced and inspired my life, the best and boldest and brightest hearts and minds to cross my path. Each of the people in my life brings something distinc...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

The Lady Dior series projects a sense of ambiguity and pending calamity. The images are framed in such a way that the viewer can only glimpse at the subjects in a voyeuristic way. I am quite fascinated with staging my own death. By orchestrating and controlling my own suicides I confront dire...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

Any visitor to Arthur Drooker’s online portfolio can see that this American photographer only has eyes for ruins. For his latest work, Lost Worlds: Ruins of America, Drooker roamed the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America in search monasteries, temples, fortresses and oth...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]

Jean Combier, founder and director of the publishing house CIM (Combier Imprimeur à Macon) had two passions: the technical evolution of photography, and aviation. CIM was one of last century’s largest publishers of postcards. Over the course of fifty years, his teams soared through Fren...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]