I had just turned 16 and it was clear that my studies would lead nowhere, which forced my father to put me to work. I had the choice between three jobs: bellboy, bartender, or working at Jour de France as an assistant reporter. I choose the latter without hesitation. Until then, the idea of beco...

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This interview written by Mark Alice Durant has been published in the magazine Saint Lucy. I first became aware of Suzanne Opton’s stunning photographs of American soldiers in Contact Sheet, the long-running publication coming out of Lightwork in Syracuse. These deceptively simple ...

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It is often easier to work with renowned photographers, rather than with young pretentious and arrogant ones. Like Ralph Gibson. I hadn’t worked on a book with him for at least 15 years. Gibson is the photographer who was most influential for me through his books and his famous trilogy...

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In 1992, Afghanistan was certainly not in anyones' radar. The Russians had left a few years back ( in 1989 ) and an ugly civil war was raging. We were a few years away from the Taliban's control of the country ( in 1995) and still almost a decade before the American invasion. This didn'...

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I started this project in 2008 during a trip to Upper Egypt. I thought of the place as the only centralized place that brought together every type of Egyptian. People with different cultures and accents - and sometimes languages - I found them all there: the composite citizenry, as if I...

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For its new Portrait de Ville, Éditions Be-Pôles gave Vincent Fournier the carte blanche. The city he decided to capture was Brasilia. In this travel journal, he delivers a fragment of the city, and he wants it all: dizzying angles, hyper-calibrated lines, satura...

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What ghosts is Graham Walzer chasing? Past loves, tossed into a swimming pool? Childhood, innocence, meaning? No text is provided to help elucidate the mystery of his zine Chasing Ghosts: A4 paper, 50p., limited to 50 copies. We nonetheless feel, as we do with much contemp...

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The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a photojournalist for various publications in Mexico and abroad. He rubbed shoulders with great Mexican artists l...

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Someone looks at the eclipse picture, and they think, “All he did was just go click, click, click, click.” But what happened in 1979 was first that I had to find a place to shoot the eclipse over the city of Winnipeg in Canada. I wanted to show the sun’s progress across the sky in...

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Burris likes black—not just the black that contrasts with white backgrounds, human skins and other trappings. He likes black hair, black stripes, black fabric, black hats and boots, and perhaps even a black way of seeing things… It would be less noticeable if his photographs wer...

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“My photographic work has always emerged from body and stone, two elements that have appeared in my work for years. Two seemingly different materials that I sought to unite with a third: memory. Body has short term memory, marked by life’s passage.”

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Jean Dieuzaide was my only photographic reference when in 1968 I timidly entered his house on rue Erasme in Toulouse to get some wise advice. At the time, he was nearly 50 and still signing his pictures with a graphic and shaky Yan, an impetuous signature, like the Z for Zorro that h...

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