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...

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Gene Lemuel's 35mm Fully locked and loaded. The signifigance of this blog is after years of consideration. I ,Gene Lemuel, have decided to put imagery up so i can start to share some of my craft past and present works. This blog is dedicated to shooting film, the preservation of shootin...

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He looks outside to see inside... Streets, highways, paths, fields, beaches – exposed, ready for inspection… the inwards of France, 20,000 kilometers of it. For nearly one year, Jérome Albertini traveled through France in his Ford, spent nights in parking l...

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This image embodies the horror of the Vietnam War. In the center of the photograph, a little girl, Kim Phuc, stands terribly burned by napalm in the center of a road. She could have stayed a victim forever. But photography changed her destiny, placing a handful of guardian angels on...

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Photographs from New York in the 70s, my first book which is based on the work I did at the SoHo Weekly News from 1973 until 1982, are ever popular and will now be on exhibition at the highly acclaimed Opia Restaurant and Lounge at East 57th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhatt...

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One of the last great migrations of mammals takes place in East Africa—the migration of the wildebeests. One day, as if instructed by a hidden signal, the animal herds on the Serenghetti plains start heading north in a great cloud of dust, driven by an irresistible force. They ...

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With her series « Holy Days » Marie Ormières of the Ecole Supérieure de Photographie et d'Audiovisuel (EFET) in Paris, was awarded the Art Photography prize. “Summer vacation. Nostalgia remains of those glorious days. I made a pilgrimage back to t...

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Sarker Naman Protick from the Pathshala South Asian Media Academy in Dahka, Bangladesh was awarded the Prix Mark Grosset in the “Reportage” category with his work “Of River And Lost Lands”. “This is a story of two villages and a river. Once, there ...

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With « Circus in Palestine », Milan Szypura, a young photography student at the EMI-CFD, did not win a Vendôme award, but did win the encouragement of several journalist jury members. About his story, “Le cirque en Palestine”, he said: “Making movies in Palestin...

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There is nothing more French than this small village in the Loir Valley—not to be confused with the Loire Valley—where our “good” kings would come to taste the pleasures of the flesh on the banks of the Loir. It is in this charming locale that Odile Andrieu organized the 8th ...

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With a background in painting, the young Liu Yue (born in 1981 in Shanghai) approached photography with a sharp sense of space, objects and matter. Currently featured in two exhibitions in Shanghai, his work was also recognized during the last Photoquai festival in Paris.
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For those of you planning a visit to the San Francisco Bay Area (best weather is in May and September), there are many wonderful places to view photography, but recently I had the accidental pleasure of viewing three private collections and realized that this is a very...

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The next stop for our private collection tour involves a trip north to the Carneros Appellation of California wine country. This trip should be combined with a visit to several of the tasting rooms in the area. There are few better places to eat and drink really well i...

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Our third private collection bring us back to San Francisco, this time to the M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park where Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection is on view. The history of photography in this show begins with Robert Frank, Lee Friedland...

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If you've seen the biography of Robert Capa, you've seen a picture of Bob in a bathtub reading. Bob came down to Washington during World War II to get his correspondent’s credentials, and he asked if he could stay at my apartment there. I said, “Sure, Bob.” In the morning, though, he...

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In this age of economic recession and Euro soccer cup fervor, it might come as a surprise that Italians and English would combine into creating something together. It might even come as a bigger surprise that the result could be such an appealing collection of travel images. Ba...

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When Antidote Magazine launched their ”Icons Issue” earlier this spring they had commissioned Jan Welters to photograph the whole issue. Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova and Malgosia Bela where some of the modelling icons Welters captured for the magazine. Starting ...

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For the first and possibly only time ever, Irving Penn’s masterful ‘Cigarettes’ series is exhibited in its entirety at Hamiltons Gallery. ‘Cigarettes’ quickly became part of the lore of 20th century art when a selection from the series was first presented by ...

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