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 pres...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion: happy faces, relaxed moments, places of leisure rather than wo...

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The photographs '' The Voice of the Silence'' stand as a testament to one person's unique perspective of an event that would lead to two wars and change the world. The tragedy that is September 11 is much too important to history to allow for only a media interpretation. 
The ph...

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The glory of the Dutch Still Life recreated in plastic. To 17th century merchants, the nouveaux riches of the Dutch Golden Age, collecting luxury items and utensils to show off their wealth and life- style was a competition. They revelled in exotic animals and shells fro...

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I fell in love with images at a very young age, I took my hairdressing career to movie sets. I have been working in audiovisual now for nearly 20 years. 
I had the privilege of working with some of the greatest photographers and directors. For the past few years, I have begun tak...

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The images from Nocturama have been done during different travels; the actors are friends or people I met randomly or even there is a self-portrait. Nocturama is my first experimentation doing photography in the night; somehow it is the sketchbook of my following night-proje...

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« The first time was violent. The first time was fascinating. 
As usual, the first time was left more to chance than to any intentional approach. I opened the doors onto the first match with the same curiosity that leads one to enter a store to see its exotic wares. 
And what I s...

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The “Ouvrir les Yeux” association is presenting an exhibition of works by Maud Bernos entitled “Carton Blanc”. 
The Peace & Sport Foundation commissioned this photographic work about children in conflict and post-conflict zones and their daily use of sports. The photographer w...

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2012 is a coming of age year for KissKissBanBank. A pioneer of participitative financing, the structure has become, in 3 years time, the first public platform for “crowdfunding” in France. Today, with the released of an English-language version and the opening of an office abr...

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From June 26 through September 4, 2012, the Galerie Hors-Champs will show prints by young photographer Hannibal Volkoff. After Larry Clark, Gus Van Sant and Nan Goldin, Hannibal Volkoff has carved out his style with his subjects/peers that visually evokes the sextape, online networ...

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The latest issue of the French-language publication Réponses Photo No. 14 asks a question that could be interpreted as either iconoclastic or nostalgic: “Why not film photography?”. Just because the market has shifted toward digital photography doesn’t mean that professional...

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This is the third year in a row for the Grand Prix Eurazeo. This year’s theme is “Lights and Perspectives”. The winner will be awarded 10,000€. Eurazeo has provided support for photography for the past ten years through the acquisition of original works, which the company highlight...

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The Galerie Salomon Duval is presenting this month a new series by Liu Xiaofang . The Chinese artist was first introduced to the public by becoming the poster child of reGeneration 2, a selection of the 80 most promising photographers of their generation, organized by the Musée ...

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The photographer Jean-Marie Marcel (b. 1917) has passed away in Paris at the age of 94. He was known for his official portrait of French president Charles de Gaulle, wearing civilian clothes and the Ordre de la Libération medal around his neck. Marcel had already taken an early p...

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The jury for the Prix Photographique de la Ville de Levallois 2012, selected Sophie Jung for her series "EasyJet". Sophie Jung is a photographer born in Luxembourg in 1982 whose work was selected out of 299 entries from 48 countries around the world. The jury included Christy Lange, se...

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