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 ]

New York, 1969. Day one. I begin representing the Gamma Photo Agency in the United States. I buy a copy of Time magazine at a kiosk on 72nd street near my apartment. In the masthead I find the name of the magazine’s director, who puts me in contact with the director of photography: J...

22.10.2012[ read full story ]

Nadav Kander’s photographs, Yangtze – The Long River at Flowers Gallery, New York, capture an authentic un-staged snapshot of people's lives in a region undergoing the most significant and broad sweeping changes to their physical environment in 5,000 year...

17.10.2012[ read full story ]

Last sunday, ended the second edition of fotofever. After Paris last November, the festival was etablished in Brussels, from October 4 to 7, in the buldings of Tour & Taxis. Cécile Shall, founder and director of the festival aims to show to the visitors the diversity of contemporary photogra...

09.10.2012[ read full story ]

In January, I was in Paris to show samples of my work with acrobats and circus artists, at the Festival de Cirque de Demain. When Parisians I met told me, "you must exhibit. Who is your gallery?" I was inspired and encouraged. I became friends with one of them, a photographer, Chri...

08.10.2012[ read full story ]

The same week that NEWSWEEK announced that it will be ending it’s paper edition, another festival dedicated to photo journalism is being launched in Saint Brieuc, France. « Photojournalism : A Profession in Crisis » is the title of the festival’s first year. The o...

25.10.2012[ read full story ]

In Chicago, 1950, Simone de Beauvoir had a torrid affair with the American writer Nelson Algren, with whom she experienced a kind of sexual awakening. Art Shay, a photographer for LIFE and Time followed Algren an interesting character. On a very hot day in Chicago, Simone, dripping...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]

Camera Work presents the exhibition "Gender Studies" by Bettina Rheims. Focusing again on transgender, in 2011 the artist created a fascinating portrait series of 25 people who evade categorization of being male or female. To see and show people in...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

Michelle Vignes had a burning passion for social documentary photography and used it not only to create important bodies of work but to support other emerging and established photographers through the two organizations she co-founded: The International Fund for Photography and Fotovision. She...

08.10.2012[ read full story ]