Not so long ago, I was in Montrouge, in your studio, not far from Annette and Francine. Seated at a desk fit for a head of state, I was quickly at ease, as if in my own home. I was still thinking about how we had met, how we had come to talking, with Sebastião Salgado, abou...

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On March 27, Frédéric Mitterrand, French Culture and Communication Minister, launched the AraGo web portal, that had been previously announced during a press conference in Arles on July 4, 2010. 
The name AraGo, the Minister reminded the audience, was selected in homage and, tha...

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One hundred years ago, on the night of April 14 to 15, 1912, the White Star Line’s transatlantic liner, whose construction began in Belfast in 1909, sank after hitting an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, taking 1500 passengers down with it.

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In 1988, Abe Fraindlich was commissioned by the Titanic Survivors Society to photograph the living survivors. Around ten came to the photo shoot. Here are those photographs. No one pictured is alive today.

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Jonas Cuénin, one of our New York contributors, has a passion for Irving Penn, and in particular one of the photographer’s most famous series: Small Trades. Jonas’ web series, “Of Pictures and Men” (Des images et des hommes) is a tribute to Penn’s work. It focuses on all those in the world of...

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Swiss humor is hardly one of the country’s most popular exports. But the artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both Swiss, despite their names) have made a breakthrough in Moscow. Russian visitors giggle as they pass by the duo’s clever collages. Onorato and K...

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Moscow has grown increasingly enamored of its Stalinist past. Hence the idea for this exhibition, which seems straight out of a socialist realist propagandist’s wet dream. Vladislav Mikosha (1909 – 2004) took full advantage of recently imported Western color photograph...

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Contrary to the (rather dry) title of the exhibition, at Stop No. 2, no one gets off— they have already left, and a long time ago. Sergei Shestakov is fascinated by dead cities. He traveled to Chuckotka, Russia, about as far east as one can go, not far from Alaska, in search of an undes...

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At the Moscow Photo Biennial, Pieter Hugo, 36, stands out from his peers with a powerful subject: the hyena. Its monstrous appearance. Its domestication. On the fringes of African society, on the border between urban and rural. The hyena offers a stark contrast to the rest of the biennial, d...

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The theme of this year’s Moscow Photo Biennial is the road. Mikhael Subotzky’s road leads us to a prison, one located right in the middle of an intersection, right in the middle of a city, it radiates out from the prison. You would have to be South African to imagine su...

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The Pobeda (“Victory”) gallery is celebrating its fifth anniversary with the work of a young photographer, Alexey Kiselev. This is his first solo exhibition. Why him? “It’s a combination of chance and circumstance,” says Nastia, the gallery’s director of...

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