After appearing in the December 6, 2011, issue of La Lettre devoted to The Silicon Valley, Doug Menuez exhibited his images this March at the Moscow Biennial, organized by Olga Sviblova. Today he is presenting them in China as part of the 9th China Photographic Art Festival. His wo...

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Returning home after an interminable exile. Burying the dead to better speak to them. Rebuilding what was destroyed to provide a future for one’s children. Healing. The Bosnian Serb army took over the town of Srebrenica in 1995. They drove out its inhabitants through terror,...

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The town of Ouidah - Benin is the spiritual capital of Vodun in West Africa. Vodun is their national religion. Presently there are an estimated 50 million worshippers worldwide. An important aspect of the religion is spirit possession, through which the spirits speak to the devo...

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Yamuna Walk is the photographic account of the 22 kilometers that Atul Bhalla walked along the Yamuna river over the course of four days. 
The Yamuna originates north of Haridwar in the Himalayas, flowing south-east. After passing through Delhi and Agra, it empties into the Ganges...

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Elipsis Gallery presents “Mr. G”, the first solo show of French photographer Gilbert Garcin to be held in Turkey, from May 10 until June 30 2012. 
Gilbert Garcin spent the majority of his life managing his lamp factory in Marseille France. After he completed a wo...

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We have published Taryn Simon several times in our editions of October 27th 2011 and May 7th 2012. Her first exhibition in France, in Paris begins tonight (5.30pm - 8.30pm) at Galerie Almine Rech. If you are in Paris you readers of La lettre are invited. The Almine Rech Ga...

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Factice Magazine is an online and paper fashion magazine devoted to photography. The magazine and accompanying website www.facticemagazine.com are published in French and English. Created in February 2011 by French native Julie Psaila, Factice magazine has two goals. The first is to offer a platf...

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While working in the archives of photographer Augusti Centelles, Joaquin D. Gasca, the curator of the exhibition Oh Centelles in-edit! and his team of researchers discovered two never-before-seen portraits of Robert Capa. The photographs were taken in Barcelona in 1938 durin...

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Iraq, formally known as Mesopotamia, is considered by many as the cradle of civilization. With more than a 10,000 years history, it certainly overshadows any existing country for the lengths of its existence. It also overshadows any civilization for its contribution to the world. It is...

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The fifteen images in Salt Marsh Predators, from the Italian publisher Blister Zine (limited to 100 copies), were all taken at the Natural Science Museum in Ravenna. We see weasels, porcupines, parakeets, eagles, bonobos and ducks—and all of them are stuffed. No photographer is credite...

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From May 18 to 29 at the Hôtel de Sauroy, the editor-in-chief of the magazine de l'air is presenting Collection 02, an exhibition/sale of nudes and landscapes by eight artists. Since its creation in 2000, this magazine has presented a vast array of images of intimacy: ...

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Life magazine didn’t know whether they could trust me to cover the Black Panthers or the Muslims fairly in the 1960s. The Panthers and the Muslims felt the same way. The first thing Elijah Muhammad asked me when I went with Malcolm X to visit him in Arizona was “Why you working for...

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Clic Gallery presents “Show Girl”, Antoine Verglas ’ newest photography book from Gravure. An exemplifier of Verglas’ established mastery over the elegantly sensual image, “Show Girl” voyeuristically trails a vampish Lindsay Ellingson as she inhabits the role of a...

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Sarah Pickering is a British photographer who researches truth versus verisimilitude through the medium of photography, though never manipulating her images. This week, she presents her series about forgeries, "Art & Antiquities".
One of the Photography curators from the V&A got in...

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