“Mannequin” is really an exciting new body of work on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. The five decades of constant outpouring of work really culminates with this project. This collection of mannequins in storefront windows was assembled over three years from stores...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

Bathtubs,couples,love and challenge are strong themes throughout Photographer Hal's work with other key elements including individuality, style, communication and intimacy. In his own words: “When you embrace your lover, sometimes you wish to melt right into them. To realize this wish, I...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

The project L’Hôtel Imaginé is intended to be an imaginary photographic experience, an inner journey throughout these ports of call, at once within and without the city. What remains in these hushed rooms and long corridors once they have been abandoned by their occupants? The sou...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

I am traveling to sanctuaries across the country to photograph animals that are elderly or at the end stage of their lives. I began this series shortly after I had spent a year caring for my mother who has Alzheimer’s disease. When my mother got ill, I made a conscious decision to not phot...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

Following a series of Japanese exhibitions last year, Le BAL’s 2012 program is shaping up to be rather British, with exhibitions devoted to the photographer Chris Killip and filmmaker John Smith this Spring, and to the photographer Paul Graham in the Fall. The Chris Ki...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

Tomio Seike turned 67 in 2010. His awareness of unavoidable disappearances freed his perception of simple things he would never see again, like the ocean view from his Brighton apartment. Rather than taking an inventory of the beauty of his daily surroundings, he concentrated on the postcard fr...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

In the US, it is a pretty safe bet to say the least understood people are the white underclass and the white rural poor. These are people who live completely outside the American Dream and have no obvious impediment to their upward mobility such as skin color. They can evoke ...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

I walked in the centre of Amsterdam, minding my own business, when I noticed a stray piece of artwork lying next to the trash. I thought maybe this was the first time that this painting had seen the light of day. 
I wanted to adopt it, but then I realised that this was a big moment Lyin...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

Sofía López Mañán was born in Argentina in 1982 and holds degrees in fine arts, photojournalism and direction of photography. Her work is focused in intimate stories that develop identity issues. In some cases work is based on her on life.

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

The first 15 gallerist portraits were published on March 30 in La Lettre de la Photographie. “Fantastic,” said Jean-Jacques. “It’s a real success. Let’s keep it going!” But I could barely process it. After these two crazy months, I decided to take 48 hours off – just to sleep….
And then a ...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

This exhibition at the MoMA evokes the major influence photography had on the avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century: Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Constructivism, new objectivity, conceptual art and post conceptual.

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

The Leica gallery presents a must-see retrospective of the black-and-white and color work of the Swiss photographer, whose insolence is reflected in his attitude as much as in his images. Michael Von Graffenried has tried his hand at nearly every style ...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

Behind its leatherette cover, one finds in Ukraina Passport (13 x 5 cm) an example of what makes contemporary photography publishing so captivating. Created by Federico Clavarino, a young Italian photographer living in Madrid, Ukraina Passport’s content, form and layout combine to be just...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

For more than two decades Stephen Wilkes has been widely recognized for his fine art, editorial, and commercial photography. With numerous awards and honors, as well as five major exhibitions in the last five years, Wilkes has made an impression on the world of photography. His most recent s...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]

The Hiltawsky Gallery of Berlin is currently presenting “un – deux – trois” by photographer Serge Marcel Martinot, born in Paris in 1944. he spends his childhood on the île Saint Louis in central Paris, worked in the United States then settled in Germany where he h...

16.05.2012[ read full story ]