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 pre...

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Look, focus and shoot ... Share your pictures, talk about them, and about photography in general. Value the work behind an image and above all. Learn. That’s MED. A festival open to everyone. By and for Photography. 
MED puts up the landscape: uncrowded beaches, a city with thousand...

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The APA SF Curator’s Voice is an ongoing series of curated fine art photo exhibitions presented in select galleries, and online. This is a new opportunity for photographers from all over the world to showcase their unique ideas: the stories and images that passionately express th...

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For its second edition, the Prix Photo Par Nature has asked Reza to preside over its jury of professionals, composed of photographers, journalists, and leading players in the world of photography and environmental causes. A selection of photographs from the 2012 edition, plus phot...

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With this award, the Carmignac Gestion foundation has chosen to support in-depth work of photojournalists, whose profession is in the grips of a severe financing crisis. Every year, a EUR 50.000 grant is awarded to fund a photo-reportage carried out over a period of several months ...

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Clare Strand’s videos are "Moving Photographs". They are based on the same black-and-white visual universe with studio lighting, serving a similar purpose. At odds with the contemporary landscape that seeks extreme visual attention, reproducing a semblance of reality, Strand’s wor...

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Today on page 9 of Libération, in small print, a few pieces of news, like thinly smearing margarine on a toast: 
- Ethnic discrimination remains a reality throughout the European Union, in health care, education, employment and housing. 
- Zebu thieves are fighting against t...

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For 7 days a week, every week, thousands of photographers compete with millions of amateurs for your photographic attention. Facebook, every day, see 250 million images uploaded. Your local publication publishes at most, a few hundred. Yet, week after week, it is always the professio...

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There is a saying that says that the best photographs are in your backyard. Moment Agency, presented recently in La Lettre's “7 days of agencies”, likes this saying. For it's 10 th year of existence, tired and wary of traveling the world in search of new photographic adventure, ...

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On June 11, 2012, the Contemporary Art Museum of Teheran hosted the “Awakening World Awards” closing ceremony. This international contest open to photographers and designers features a cash reward. The first prize of 10,000 Euros was attributed to Hossein Fatemi (Iran) for a story on t...

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Josef Koudelka’s latest book, "Lime" (Xavier Barral), follows up on the photographer’s work on Limestone (La Martinière, 2001). That work featuring 36 panoramic photographs was published in a limited edition of 500 copies and is today out-of-print. 
In the 245-page "Lime", we find...

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Another interesting series at the festival is one taken at an elite Russian military academy for young women. We enter their daily routines, not just training with AK-47s, but also needlework, dance and choir singing. No mini-skirts allowed, and just one phone call a day. At...

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The Berlin photography festival in the city’s Kreuzberg neighborhood will end on June 30. Since the beginning of the month, the festival has held no less than 80 exhibitions and events related to thirty photographers. Of all the different styles and subjects on display he...

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The third portfolio from the Browse Fotofestival in Berlin was selected for the distinctive fact that it was taken with a Smartphone. After all, the important thing is to enjoy the resulting photos, rather than speculate on what technology was used to produce it. The images by ...

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Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, of the 20th century Bauhaus movement, died Monday in his home town of Buenos Aires. He was 105. As early as 1930, one of his works was featured on the cover of a Jorge Luis Borges book. He also produced “Art of Mesopotamia” for Les Cahiers d’Art from ...

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Zmâla, A Curious Eye, is an independent bilingual French-English review, published yearly; it is dedicated to contemporary photography and the production of photographers’ collectives from France and throughout the world, and offers them a space in which to share their vision of the wo...

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