Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke appointed to Sygma-Corbis Affair
Almost one year ago, La Lettre broke the news of a complaint filed by five former photographers from Sygma photo agency, accusing the agency of organizing a fraudulent bankruptcy, misuse of public funds, and a ...

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As Look3 Festival of the Photograph got underway Thursday the workshop sessions came to an end. Two of the workshops that I visited were Bruce Gilden’s street photography workshop, and Lynsey Addario’s on the photographic essay.

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"W" - a letter from the alphabet, a sign on the door,a graphic drawing, symbol, signifying something, can be a "woman", can be "wall", and even when we pronounce the letter "W" - we say "double you", it sounds like "twice you", your twin, copy, or even "the repetition of y...

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New York City is a small town. It just so happens that when you fall into one circle, you get around. And so it is that I interviewed a photographer some time ago to speak about his work taken in abandoned buildings. And as we spoke he mentioned something I did not expect. It was he who in...

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Among the first things I photographed when I decided to move to Cambodia in 2000 was a demonstration by a small group of people in front of the National Assembly. It was obvious that these weren’t “city people.” They were people who had been evicted from their land and who had c...

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Brancolini Grimaldi, London, is currently showcasing Peter Fraser’s new work, entitled A City in the Mind – a series of still life photographs creating a unique portrait of London. The award-winning photographer has taken the novel Invisible Cities...

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“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul” Franz Kafka famously wrote in his journal. If he had been witness of today's photojournalism, he would realize that photography has, and should use the same power for the same effect. There is nothing sacred ...

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Adventurer and photographer, Stefen Chow (born in 1980 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) started to be interested in photography when he was a climbing member of a team scaling Mount Everest in 2005. At first trained in Mechanical Engineering and then in Photography, th...

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To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Fnac and 5 Agence Vu’ photographers invited visitors to have their pictures taken in temporary studios at the Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes and Bordeaux Fnac stores. 
Here is a selection of pictures taken by Bertrand Desprez at the Fn...

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In the wake of the Great Recession in America and the wobbling Euro due to the high finance shenanigans, arts organizations have been under more pressure than usual for a while now. Not long ago, I attended an event to celebrate the new space in San Francisco for http...

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Whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir is the most recent film of Rufus Corporation, directed by Eve Sussman. The enigmatic title defines this work whose cinematic characteristics are reduced to its matter: Super 8, HD, 35 mm, all combined in a computer driven narrative....

The Musée de l’Élysée de Lausanne will exhibit the work of photographers Pieter Hugo and Roger Ballen through September 2, 2012, along with the museum’s latest acquisitions. The exhibition This Must Be The Place, produced by the Fotomuseum Den Haa...

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This was a very solemn week, the Queen’s jubilee and the much anticipated release of the French President’s official portrait. In both cases, much to see, and plenty of commentaries about both “events”. I abstain from making any judgments, and prefer silence, listening to th...

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Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs presents Heinrich Kuehn and the Photo-Secession: Selected Works from May 23rd through June 29th 2012. This exhibition complements two current exhibitions in New York City: Heinrich Kuehn and his American Circle at the...

The Fundación Mapfre is presenting works by Jitka Hanzlová for the first time in Spain. In her work, Jitka seeks the essence of people, nature and objects by emphasizing the relations and tensions that are created among them. She creates direct images, capturing the force of...

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