From May 17th to June 3rd, documentary photography will be front and center in Sète in the south of France. For its fourth edition the ImageSingulières festival will present a dozen exhibitions across the city, with Sète itself becoming the subject of Christopher Anderson’s blue, white ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Christopher Anderson arrived in Sete during a Saint Louis celebration evening. He immediately mingled amongst the jousters, became one of them, became a “Knight of the Tintaine”. He took part in the festivities without fuss and was then inspired for the project to be developed during...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Both photographers are Italians. They have operated as a unique photographic duo since their first Moscow adventure, in 1991. Alessandro Albert lives in Turin where he teaches in an Art centre while Paolo Verzone, who is Parisian by adoption, is unclassifiable (something he finds quite p...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Jan Banning, Dutch photographer, is the son of Indonesian migrants. Comfort women is an exhibition that is a tribute to the female victims of armed conflicts. It is also a poignant testimony of a difficult period in Indonesian history. During the Second World War, the Jap...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Daniel Van Reybrouck best describes Stephan Vanfleteren in his foreword to Belgicum, the magnificent book dedicated to the “flat country” : « To show what is beyond words. To look at what is no longer looked at. To capture what is hollow, or gutted, what no longer is, or fading. Steph...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Jules-Édouard Moustic is the Groland Présipauty Television News lead-presenter, and he is also keen on photography. We shall take the opportunity provided by the celebration of Groland’s twentieth anniversary at the Musée International des Arts Modestes to exhibit ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Tom Wood, who was born in Ireland, has lived for a long time in Liverpool where he « photographed life ». He photographs people : foreigners, friends, family; those people of all ages captured individually, in pairs or in small groups, whether posing or not. His work is very influenced ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Since its creation in December, 2007, the Gilles Caron foundation has revealed all the facets of the esthetic, journalistic or intimate work of this committed man, who is an absolute reference in journalism and in photography.

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Léon Gimpel was one of the major photographers of the Belle Epoque. He collaborated with the renowned French weekly magazine L’Illustration where he firmly imposed his contemporary coverage of the news. His collection of pictures is preserved by the French Society of Photography of which he ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Over a period of eight years, about sixty families occupied Salvador de Bahia’s former chocolate factory. All of them were homeless and together they transformed what was left of the old factory into a “home“. When Sebastián Liste discovered this place, he understood its uniqueness. Within ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

A Frenchman of Algerian origin, Bruno Boudjelal practices photography as a lifestyle where the questioning of his own identity is endless and confronts us with our own. When his father decided to return to Algeria, he accompanied him and at the same time discovered a country, a family, a violent ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Léo Delafontaine and Vladimir Vasilev, have travelled all along the mediterranean coast to cover all its social and ecological problems, from precarious housing to pollution, and nautical occupations.

23.05.2012[ read full story ]

Around the world walls create division . The Berlin wall fell, while others, increasingly massive, and ever more absurd have been built since. In Palestine, in Morocco, in Mexico… Walls separate but they are also bear political messages of the current mood. May 68 is distant but ...

23.05.2012[ read full story ]