Diane Dufour is the Director of Le BAL in Paris. A 1930s brothel off the Place Clichy that later served as a betting office before being abandoned in the 1990s, Le BAL has become one of the city’s most beautiful and innovative centers of photography. Diane fought for fiv...

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On the occasion of its second anniversary, and closing out the British-themed season, LE BAL in Paris presents the work of Paul Graham, a major figure in contemporary photography. The show comes a few months after retrospectives at the Whitechapel Gallery in London and th...

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Through November 3, 2012, the Galerie Agathe Gaillard in Paris will present La Condition Humaine (The Human Condition), a retrospective Peter Turnley’s photography. The sixty photographs, mainly in color, were selected by Turnley for the way they convey an...

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Marc Riboud speaks to his friend Bertrand Eveno in this beautiful little French-language book published by Delpire. Everyone knows this incredible photographer—at least, they think they know him. This book shows us a man brimming with humor. If I were rich, I would send a copy to every y...

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The Rencontres 9PH festival opened last Friday at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon. Michel Poivert was hosting a roundtable discussion with some of the photographers on display in the event’s fifteen exhibition spaces. These interviews allow us to compare the visions of histo...

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In 1999 I started photographing the ominous imprint of the military on the Israeli landscape – and reflectively, on Israeli society. My images Mirror the psychological trauma and resulting ambivalence of living in world of friction, they also warn against vestiges of warfare becomi...

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I had wanted to photograph France since 2009. Through a happy accident, Marseille became the setting for this project, even though I would also have liked to shoot in the Alps, the Landes forest, Brest or Châteauroux. Various people, buildings and materials appeared, for...

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The work of this photographer from Gaza offers a perception of reality in Palestine, one that differs greatly from the image of the country as it appears in the media.

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The title of this group exhibition, "Sous le soleil exactement" (‘Under the Sun’), is taken from a song by Serge Gainsbourg. The show is dedicated to the Mediterranean and features a selection of artists and painters in resonance with the photography festivals in Lyon.

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In the Jordan Valley shared by Israel and Palestine, one has the feeling of being outside of time and inside a myth instead. This is the battleground on a fierce water war. No one is here; it’s a military zone. I tried to capture both sides of the conflict: the light, the mountain...

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In my series "Beyond Borders" I have been searching for the "in between” – whatever lies either geographically or culturally between my world here in the heart of Europe and my long-term focus of interest in the Middle and Near East. Being half German and half Lebanese,...

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Inspired by the lack of pictures of my grandmother, who disappeared during the Algerian War, this series of portraits is first and foremost a photographic testimony to a generation of Algerians born in the first quarter of the last century. These men and women have a unique re...

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The Institute Cervantes presents an exhibition which brings together five photographers : Juan Manuel Castro Prieto, Vicente López Tofino, Ángel Gutiérrez Aguirre, Osvaldo Cipriani and Juan Manuel Díaz Burgos.

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In 1999, Aurélien Arbet and Jérémie Agry met in Grenoble and began work ing together as aa-je. Hyperactive, curious and complex, they’re interested in everything, specially image manipulations. In their work, the image is sometimes sculpted to offer the illusion of volume,...

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