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 ]

Next month and for all of January, the selection of Week-end Portfolios will be made by Anne de Mondenard, historian of photography. Mondenard recently curated "Modernisme ou modernité, Les photographes du cercle de Gustave Le Gray" exhibition at the Petit Palais.

22.12.2012[ read full story ]

“I wanted to be a doctor.” Jean-François pauses, a twinkle in his eye. “I remember, I was 11 years old. It was December 3, 1967, the South African doctor, Christiaan Barnard, had just performed the first successful heart transplant on a 55-year old man, Louis Washkansky. It was...

03.09.2012[ read full story ]

The Kurdish people who, for more than two thousand years, have been living in the lands of Anatolia and Persia, have their own unique history. Their land exists: it is Kurdistan, extending from the Anatolian plateau and plains to the Zagros mountains, but the borders of this ...

03.09.2012[ read full story ]

Greece is in the midst of a violent economical crisis. For the last two years, nationwide general labor strikes in Greece called by the country's largest labor federations, representing the private and public sector respectively. The violence erupted between thousands of angry ...

04.09.2012[ read full story ]

Three years ago, three German punks decided to move to this mountainous forest region to create with their own hands a place that would fulfill their needs (food, housing, animal breeding, cheese, bread, jam) and their ideals (solidarity, libertarian, environmentalist, and non-c...

10.09.2012[ read full story ]

Today is dedicated to the memory of Martine Franck. It's an hommage, a farewell, composed of testimonies from people who knew her. These are the memories and anecdotes that we'll keep with us. There are also three texts, beautiful and concise, written by Martine herself for French television...

27.08.2012[ read full story ]

"Southern France, noon, August 15th. I went to a friend's house to swim. Fortunately I had my camera around my neck. I first saw the shadow, and I realized that I had to hurry to get this photo. It is pretty rare to have a photo present itself, but at that time I realized that I ha...

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