The holidays are here. (Well, almost.) And for the team at La Lettre as well. So as to keep up our special daily contact, we once again invite you to submit your vacation photos. From July 9 to August 30, you will help produce La Lettre with pictures from your vacations past or p...

13.06.2012[ read full story ]

Eve Thérond pointed out the incredible similarity between the Presidential portrait of François Hollande taken by Raymond Depardon and the painting of Pierrot Lunaire by Watteau.

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Readers of La Lettre know Yan Morvan. He’s “The Eye of La Lettre”, the photographer who has from the very first issue provided you with a veritable “Who’s Who” of the world of photography. This month he will publish (in French) Reporter de guerres (Éditions La Martinière), a memoir o...

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Morning, noon, evening, night. In front of their dressing room, back and forth. Behind the curtains, they are there. Abder, Elisabeth, Manuela, Marie-José, Mariela, Paula, Sybèle. They are the building’s eyes and ears. Women’s heels banging on the floor, the creaking of Each s...

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For its 9th edition, The Peuples & Nature festival of La Gacilly features Brazil, where the next Earth Summit, Rio+20, will take place. “This year’s program continues our reflection about current international environmental concerns. It is important to have a viewpoint – but also see man’s actions and...

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These two reportages feature the laureates of the Sophot 2012 contest about social and environmental realities that require both immediate responses and long-term actions. They include blue collar working conditions for voluntary exiles in The Emirates, pictures by Philippe Chancel, a...

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The work of Swiss artist Michael von Graffenried has attracted increasing recognition in the contemporary art world, though he originally gained acclaim as a documentary photographer. While the artist has stated that he seeks to “show the reality of today” in other words to recor...

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The last evening of screenings reserved a brilliant surprise to the festival goers: a live concert by Arlene Gottfried, talented photographer and singer from Brooklyn. Her slide show was accompanied by her generous performance, acclaimed by all and recorded for La Lettre by Kevin C. D...

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Gerardo Mosquera, the Festival’s general curator, explores the central theme of the Official Section - From here. Context and Internationalisation - through 10 group exhibitions and 5 solo shows.

PHE12 is showcase work by over 300 artists, including Andy Warhol, Richard Av...

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Andy Warhol is easily one of the most important and profoundly influential artists of the twentieth century, and of all his contributions to the development of postmodern and contemporary aesthetics, perhaps none is as significant as what was known as “the Factory.” At...

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Gentlemen of Bacongo, by Daniele Tamagni (Italy, 1975), is a series of portraits of the sapeurs, members of the SAPE (Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elégantes) in Bacongo, a poor district of the Congolese capital, Brazzaville. This society, professing an almost religious d...

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Loewe presents a selection of portraits by Scott Schuman that testify to his overwhelming love for personal expression through fashion. His subjects, though geographically and culturally distant from each other, have something in common: a touch of style that has prompted Schuman to p...

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Is there anyone that you didn't photograph that you wished you had?
I never photographed Indira Gandhi, and I wanted to photograph Mrs. Thatcher but couldn't get permission. I have been in every state except North Dakota. I have never been in Russia. I've never been in China...

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The Eyes of War features forty portraits and accompanying interviews of men and women, who lost their eyesight during the Second World War when they were either children or young soldiers. Former enemies from Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, and Russia ar...

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