La Lettre is launching a new column today. It is called "Trends", you requested it on our survey. Séverine Morel will be running the column every week. Here is how she describes it:

19.04.2012[ read full story ]

M+B presents Compulsion, an exhibition of new work by contemporary artist Alex Prager. The exhibition features a selection of color photographs from the series, as well as the artist’s new short film, La Petite Mort, with accompanying film stills. The exhibition will be shown simulta...

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Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individuality on the one hand and conformity on the other. A society with 6 billion people is a society standardized to meet the needs of each individual: work, leisure, transportation... In thi...

19.04.2012[ read full story ]

In my photographs, I work with daily scenes, disturbed through strain and boredom. With glossy appearance and material comfort, the characters evoke the loneliness and lack of communication inherent to today’s society. I employ a meticulous approach to detail by filling out their env...

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With Silent World, we wanted to transform major cities into unknown imaginary landscapes. We place one or more symbolic characters into these ghostly abandoned cities to stand as the last witnesses of a vanished world. The characters, often children, have come to this place to c...

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Hermès won the 27th Grand Prix de la Publicité de Presse magazine, organized by the Syndicat de la Presse Magazine Marketing & Publicité, with its campaign “Des outils inspirés” (inspired tools) on the theme of craft, conceived with the Publicis Et Nous agency.

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This recent series The Astronaut’s Wife is conceived by Billy & Hells in the manner of a retrospective diary. The images illustrate events, encounters, remarkable occurrences, or emotional states. Images are dated according to the events they portray. They depict the astr...

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LVMH wins the Corporate Prize for its' "Les journées Particulières" campaign, created by " Euro RSCG c&o " and photographed par Jean-François Campos, at the 27th Grand Prix de la Publicité de Presse Magazine, a competition organized by the press magazine marketing & advertising union.

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What attracted me was the simplicity and basic idea of human history, when people still treated nature with awe and fear. They lived the simple and primitive life, with a very basic understanding of their environment. The simplicity originated from life itself as a powerful force, that resonates w...

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In my younger years I'd often spend a lot of time playing tennis, soccer and basketball with friends. We'd break into schools on the weekend just to play sport. I was curious to find out if this is still a popular activity. Throughout my travels I have documented the relationship between the cit...

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