For its eighth edition, the Night of the Year imbues the streets of Arles with a festive atmosphere to accompany a grand photographic tour where different artists from newspapers, magazines, and photographic agencies and groups display their year’s work on fourteen screens.

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The Maison de l'Europe de Géorgie was founded by Lionel Charrier, Raphaêl Glucksmann and Natalia Kancheli. Every spring, the Tbilisi Photo Festival is presented in the Georgian capital. The 3rd edition ended in June.

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A passion for photography, news, and art drove the Genestar family to create Polka in 2007. A unique project sponsored by Marc Riboud, Sebastião Salgado, Reza, Jean-Marie Périer and Eric Valli. Each picture tells a story, Polka features them in three dimensions: paper, digital an...

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The Night of the Year is featuring a projection about the French daily “Libé”. The newspaper Libération began in 1973 under the direction of Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Pentti Sammallahti's work is a kind of space odyssey. From his viewpoint Earth is no higher than a man or a bird, it's white as snow and just as pure. It is oddly peopled with familiar animals who make their way through the solitude of a place as yet undefined. ...

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Since his beginnings, in the middle of the 1970s, James Casebere has been making objects which he then photographs. These objects, in themselves, have no importance because the artist, who does not define himself as a photographer, also does not define himself as a sculp...

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Sylvie Lécallier graduated in 1993 from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie. Since 2000, she has overseen the Galliera photography collection at the Musée de la Mode de la ville de Paris. This specialized collection contains 50,000 photogra...

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Christophe Berthoud, an art historian specializing in photography, graduated from the ENSP in 1992. Today he has been invited to revisit the work of the Alinari between 1852 and 1920. Berthoud decided to account for the diversity of the themes and genres approached through the...

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“November 2007. I have been asked to go and film a Kurdish battalion of the Iraqi army. This battalion is located in Mossoul. I have 48 hours to make a decision. I decide to go. There, a friend gives me his old Hi8 camera with ten tapes. I am a photographer. I have never filmed anything. I h...

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Evocative smiles firmly outlined on glacial and ambivalent pouting lips. She wants to live as though she were twenty years younger. In search of renewed youthfulness, she is as old as the other’s gaze makes her. Vivacious and wanting, tinged with artifice but without making the mistake of ...

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Things began in Korea, a fair time ago, in black and white with an 8 x 10 view camera. The panel was already blank, and people were talking about the Bechers – Bernd and Hilla Becher. Over in Korea, people are either for or against the Bechers. Sunghee wondered whether a typology, a litany of ...

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Mehdi Meddaci's plastic work keeps its distance, staying on the level of the "poetic" and bearing witness to its deep roots in Mediterranean space. It builds itself through successive strata, taking the form of devices or autonomous modules such as Corps Traversés (Pierced Bodies, 2007), Lan...

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The South Sudan officially became independent on 9 July 2011, following several decades of civil war opposing the Sudanese national army and rebel forces in the south, which culminated in a peace accord in 2005 and a UN-supervised secession process. The accession to independence was mark...

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As part of the symposium entitled “Intensité de la photographie,” prepared, coordinated and hosted by Françoise Docquiert and Rémy Fenzy, on Wednesday, July 4, I attended a morning’s worth of discussions devoted to the topic “Photography and Teaching”. They attempted to answer questions like...

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“They say that music music soothes the soul.” Guillaume Chamahian finishes his text on the series Bosnia. This is probably a nod to a past life. “I stopped school rather young. When I was 18 someone gave me a camera. I started taking pictures and did a little writing and painting...

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Earlier this week, visitors to Arles had many opportunities to cross paths with Guillaume Chamain as he marched through the city putting up images extracted from his series Bosnia. Eight large-format photographs (1.5 x 2.5 m) call out to visitors about the war in Bosnia-H...

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In my capacity as Project and Exhibition Manager of the independent publishing house Schilt Publishing, I am lucky enough to be one of the experts at the Photo Folio Reviews in the photography festival ‘Les Recontres d’Arles’. The Photo Folio Reviews are described on the festival’...

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On the occasion of the Jeanloup Sieff retrospective all summer long at the Musée de la Photographie André Villers in Mougins, the magazine De l’Air has devoted a large spread to the artist. The museum curator Olivier Lécine, shares a few anecdotes and comments on the selected photo...

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The Palm Springs Art Museum presents the "Backyard Oasis", a collection of the works of several contemporary photographers, including David Hockney, Herb Ritts and Michael Childers. Here, Childers and Curator Dr. Daniell Cornell give a brief introduction to the exhibit.

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The Grant, supported by Canon France, with 8 000,00 euros is presented to a professional photographer of any age, sex or nationality who wishes to cover a social, economic, political or cultural issue in a journalistic manner. The Award is given in order to allow the winner to pro...

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The holidays are here. (Well, almost.) And for the team at Le Journal as well. So as to keep up our special daily contact, we once again invite you to submit your vacation photos. From July 9 to August 30, you will help produce Le Journal with pictures from your vacations past or present. The...

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