Le Journal is on a well-deserved vacation. This has been an eventful season for photography, to say the least. Not everyone is on vacation, though. A few of us are staying behind to prepare your Christmas present: a full redesign of Le Journal. Let’s hope Santa isn’t too late. For the next s...

17.12.2012[ read full story ]

“I don't think a journalist should die for his newspaper,” wrote Jean-François Chauvel, Patrick's father, in A rebrousse-poil (Editions Olivier Orban, 1976), a book of reporting stories collected by Philippe Gildas. “If he happens to risk his life, it's for himself, for some idea he ...

21.05.2012[ read full story ]

Lawrence Schiller’s life has followed a larger trajectory than most and this summer will be no exception. Starting out as a successful photojournalist with Look, Life, Paris Match and more, Schiller made a name for himself with exclusive photographs of Marilyn Monr...

30.05.2012[ read full story ]

Joel Meyerowitz was born in the Bronx just before the Second World War. This year he celebrates his 50th year in photography with a retrospective published by Phaidon and exhibited at PhotoMed. Produced especially for the festival, the exhibition will be featured for the first time at H...

30.05.2012[ read full story ]

The images you are going to see are abhorrent, unbearable. But Robert King, a veteran photojournalist took them so that we might see and understand the plight of the Syrians.

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

JR recently completed the third part of his work, Wrinkles of the city, as part of the 11th Havana Biennial 2012. The work a collaboration with the artist José Parlà, opened on May 13, the installation combines JR’s monumental photographs with the urban calligraphy of Parlà, displaying ...

29.05.2012[ read full story ]

The parution of a new photomagazine is always a good news to celebrate, and in a time where publications cover more and more specialised markets, the idea of creating a platform for photography in the South and Southeast of the USA seems ripe. 
In South by Southeast (SXSE) editor Na...

22.05.2012[ read full story ]

Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at the Pompidou Center in Paris, is appointed next chief curator of photography at MoMA. He succeeds Peter Galassi, who retired from that job in 2011 after 30-years. Quentin Bajac began his career at the Musée d’Orsay in...

05.06.2012[ read full story ]

On June 5, 2012, the official portrait of François Hollande, the recently elected president of France, will be unveiled. The photograph was taken by Raymond Depardon. 
For the past few weeks, the Paris photo world was abuzz: would Raymond Depardon take the official portrait?

05.06.2012[ read full story ]

The exhibition, High Speed Insanity, presents six independent artists : Roger Ballen, Martin Denker, Sally Mann, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano, Joel Peter Witkin.Their common denominator is their ability to deconstruct in order to construct, where photography...

20.06.2011[ read full story ]