Celebrations and holidays are here again. They are also back for the La Lettre team. Like this summer, if you wish, you will take over for us. The theme is celebration. Former, current, or future celebrations. Celebrations in the largest sense of the word, open to your inte...

02.12.2011[ read full story ]

When I pulled off the freeway into San Diego, I had a single twenty dollar bill in my wallet. My car, a 1973 Toyota station wagon, rattled my teeth and died in idle. At stops I had to divide my right foot: heel on the brake, toes revving the accelerator. I had barely enough gas to get back to L...

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Didier Brousse who for the last two years has represented the photographer Bernard Plossu writes about him and says. This exhibition is not a retrospective of forty years works, but a selection in his work that is so very extensive. Bernard Plossu spend most of ...

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Photography books are as much works of public discourse, as they are personal albums. The more an image is considered, the more familiar it becomes until the line between Us and Them vanishes, and the image becomes a reference to our own life. As such, photograph books operate on several leve...

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Wherever they live, they live off the beaten path. And once they’re there, they build. With their families or on their own, they transform themselves into architects. Tree houses, cave dwellings, circular and angular cabins, temporary huts: their constructions are limited only by th...

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Founder of the Rencontres d’Arles festival in 1970, Lucien Clergue was the first photographer, with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, to be offered a chair at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut de France. The latest exhibition of his work at the FIAF in New York celebrates 50 years of...

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La Bouilladisse is an administrative district, or commune, of 6000 people in the Bouches-du-Rhône region of France. “There are more than 36,000 communes in France and each of them can be considered a world in itself. It is not its own separate world, but a possibility, an achievement...

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Since 1996, the "Voies Off" festival that runs every July alongside the Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles, has been offering a 2500 € award as well as a projection during the festival. It is open to photographers of all ages. A jury of professionals awards the author’s vis...

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They dreamt about it, they did it. Yonola Viguerie and Philip Blenkinsop just opened a gallery in Bangkok. The first pictures exposed are by Australian photographer Max Pam and by Philip Blenkinsop. Here is an interview by Alison Stieven-Taylor of Philip Blenkinsop."

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This is a fabulous time of year for photography. Not only because people will buy and use more photographic equipment than at any moment of the year, but mainly because it is the beginning of the year end galleries. Every photographic intensive company, be it a publisher or a wire service, a ...

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