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 ]

Chien-Chi Chang has been a Magnum photographer since 1995. He lives in Taipei and New York. Chang has just completed a reportage for Médecins du Monde on the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania, where more than 6% of the population is affected.

09.12.2011[ read full story ]

Here is the complete list of photography grants offered by the Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs. Paragraphs 4, 6 and 12 concern non-French applicants, and can be consulted in the French version of La Lettre.

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Photographer’s works are usually stolen by other artists who transform them, manipulate them, possess them. Here, a rarity, the photographer and the artist worked together to created their pictures.

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Franca Sozzani is the cover star of the fourth issue of Industrie Magazine where the legendary editor-in-chief of Italian Vogue talks to Elisabeth von Guttman. The photographs are taken by no one else than Terry Richardson with Katie Grand doing the styling.

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Throckmorton Fine Art presents an exhibition highlighting four decades of work by the photographer, Mario Algaze. The exhibit will present 35 images included in the catalogue of his work published in 2010, Mario Algaze: Portfolio. Algaze has worked throughout Lati...

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While Paris appears to be affirming its dominance on the photographic art market, and seems to have lost its photojournalistic luster, its photo agencies are bustling. Last month, Abaca press moved to the Montparnasse neighborhood, on the boulevard Arago, in a sublet from Gamma-Rapho!

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Photography books make fabulous gifts. I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to peruse this year’s publishing, thinking about what makes this medium so brilliant. Art is a thing of meditation, and the book is a devotional form. When the story told is one that entrances us on several le...

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Henry Wessel creates bodies of photographic images that subtly and effortlessly engage the viewer in a layered experience in a way that many photographers can only dream about accomplishing. His latest book, Waikiki (Steidl, 2011) is a skillful offering. This book chro...

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Having spent the last three weeks in Asia, and feeling a little asian myself I present this press review. Everywhere I look I see signs of the crisis—everywhere except in the papers. What do I see? Handshakes, pats on the back, knowing smiles, men in black stepping out of f...

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