La Lettre De La Photographie is dead. Long live Le Journal De La Photographie. We waited for the right moment to tell you. With the opening of the Arles festival , the most important photography festival in the world, the moment is now. Why the title change? Because the adventu...

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Is Magnum still relevant? That’s the question the agency plans to answer during a roundtable discussion from 16h30 to 18h. At the invitation of François Hébel, the roundtable will follow up on questions raised during the legendary agency’s annual meeting, which ...

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Thoughtful, demanding and tenacious, Rémy Fenzy began his career in the administration of the French embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland. He decided to pursue a graduate degree at the Sorbonne (Paris I), becoming first an art school professor, then a director of the Ecole Supérieu...

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Halfway To White is not a quest for a virginal white but the empirical and tonal exploration of a multitude of whites. White is an overwhelmingly enigmatic subject: the same way it contains all colours, it can carry all significations and meanings. It is precisely through this complexity...

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There is no mystery; Dorothée Smith’s approach to the visible, at once luminarist and dark, is valid as an image of the uncertainty of sexual roles. Questions of gender, a current in philosophy over the last twenty years or more, occupy an important place in the intellectual development o...

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Coming across a photograph by Erwan Morère is no light matter. Too bad, it’s too late. There you are – that’s it You know how it is, the feeling that you’ve been grabbed as you pass by – you’re hooked, carried away, and you say to yourself that if you get off while the thing...

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On 11 March 2011, at 2.46 pm, a huge earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale, struck Tohoku, a coastal region in northeast Japan. The quake’s epicentre was off the Sanriku coast, filled with fishermen. The tsunami that followed destroyed almost all the inhabited areas along the coast and...

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A photographic landscape observatory consists of setting up, on a given territory, a photographic watch in order to study how landscape changes. A photographer on this type of project must produce an aesthetically pleasing work, which functions both as an art object and a documentary, ...

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They might practice photography or they might not. They are collectors, writers, professors, iconographers working for public, private and associative cultural entities. They are lovers of photography, searching for the why more than the how, the meaning, the range, the history...

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He was the risk-taker of photographic publications during the 1970's and '80s. Contrejour, his publishing house and magazine, united the independent talents of the time: Carole Naggar, Bernard Perrine, Jean-Claude Gautrand, Alain Dister, Gilles Mora and Maurice Coriat…...

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This exhibition explores the editorial adventure of Contrejour whose apparition in the ‘70’s shook up the editorial landscape with its new photographic style, spontaneous, anti-conformist and militant, providing the basis for an autonomous language.

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Echoing the celebration of the 30 years of the ENSP, twenty Magnum Photos photographers come to talk about their first photographic steps. (Abbas, Christopher Anderson, Olivia Arthur, Bruno Barbey, Chien-Chi Chang, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Bruce Gilden, Harry Gruyaert, David Alan Har...

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Arles Day-1: left Paris at 6 am, I had one desire: to leave gray Paris and find the sun in Arles. But it is a rainy city waiting for me. We are Day-1, Arles will only be ready tomorrow. Today, we are dealing with the hanging, they are in a hurry, there are only a few hours left, t...

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Day 1 Arles: Arles day one, the day for officials: official opening of official exhibitions, with official figures. At a run I wander through the ateliers Photographers try to summarize briefly the work of a lifetime. They applaude, they advance. Quickly. I take a break with photogra...

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The ParisBerlin Fotogroup has revived Exquisite Corpse, the game popularized by the Surrealists in the 1920s, and adapted the process to photography. The new rules require one photographer to reinterpret the picture of another photographer. This photographic exercise began as a...

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As part of its Galerie à Ciel Ouvert, the SEMPA has joined forces with the Festival Voies Off to present a selection of photographers from its 2012 program. Fifteen images selected for the Prix Voies Off 2012 will be on display in the Griffeuile neighborhood in Arles.

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“In this series of pictures, I try, in a fantastic, optimistic and naïve way, to combine useful and futile. For what will we do tomorrow if there is no longer any way to discard? And beauty, can it only exist if it has lived ?” comments Omar-Victor Diop about his work. 

“Fashion 21...

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I had to make frequent visits before I realized that those images were a personal attempt to prove that some wishes and dreams are common to every man it made me aware of how important freedom is to human life. 
How can one discuss the issue considering that beyond th...

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An art fair dedicated to contemporary photography, nofound photo fair offers a meeting ground for everyone involved in the world of the still image, through unique and original projects. The main objective of nofound photo fair is to create an event that brings to light the ...

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