All deaths are unbearable, but this one is odious. Rémi Ochlik's death is insufferable. Winner of the 2012 World Press Photo Award, a collection of successes was leading this clear-sighted young man towards a bright future. Ever since the "Jasmine Revolution", he took off. Place Tahrir in...

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The Ai Weiwei exhibition Entrelacs at the Jeu de Paume contemporary art museum in Paris is the first of its kind in France. Press coverage of this multi-talented artist tends to emphasize his work’s subversive aspects and his frequent run-ins with the police and government. His impris...

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These images were not intentional. I did not set out to make this body of work. These photographs are an organic response to an experience that is at the same time the most unique and the most universal of experiences: the birth of a child. The photographs that resulted from that ...

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Since 1999 the "Gens d'Images" Association has been presenting the annual Prix Arcimboldo for a photographer who uses new technologies both for creating and manipulating photography, resulting in a digital work that “preserves the human dimension in the creative process”.

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The weekly review of photography in the U.S. media returns as protests erupt in Afghanistan and Syria explodes with in a brutal civil war. We also find a different kind of war in southern Africa—a war focused on what has become one of the world’s most prized commodities: Rhino ...

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After a few weeks off, I’m delighted to return to my modest column here on La Lettre. Then came the tragic news that robs me of all my lyricism (if I had any to begin with). Rémy Ochlik, photographer, and the reporter Marie Colvin died in the line of duty in Syria. All...

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Paolo Roversi is one of the most esteemed fashion photographers currently working. His preference for work in his Paris studio, a back drop of a ragged grey blanket, bare timber boards and a selection of beaten up chairs and stools providing the only set required by Roversi, has...

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John Olson: I was drafted and went to Vietnam in the infantry. But when I arrived, I got myself transferred to Stars and Stripes, the daily newspaper that the Department of Defense put out for the military.

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“Art is either plagiarism or revolution,” Marcel DuChamp said. It is possible that there are other categories. Art can be commerce, status, or fame. It can be self-expression or propaganda—it’s often hard to know what it is, that’s why critics get paid. We like to have someone mediate thought...

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In an interview she did last september when she announced that she was leaving the position of Director of Photography of Vanity Fair to join the Trunk Archive as Executive Director of Licensing, Susan White defined Trunk as “ the luxury option”. She added “ In fact, I neve...

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