Looking for some old performers, I ended meeting some show girls. The way they looked down on strippers got me quickly intrigued and interested. Outcasts are my kind, they try harder. From strip joints to Burlesque theaters, I went on a quest and met the “Legends”, these d...

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In the late nineties Bryan Adams became curious about making self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera himself. That serendipitous decision was the beginning of a successful photographic career, parallel to Adams’ impressive achievements as a singe...

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At first glance, we might think that contemporary photographers like Martin Parr, Rineke Dijkstra and Maisie Broadhead have nothing in common with classical painters like Thomas Gainsborough, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres or Simon Vouet....

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Karine Moge discovered Bagbazar Tarun Bayam Samity » or « Bagbazar Gym » by accident. During her wanderings in the heart of Kolkata, the Bengali name for India’s third largest city, among its 16 million citizens, she quickly fell under the pell of this small s...

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In the Middle Ages, parchment was a rare and valuable commodity. Copyists transcribed new texts over old manuscripts that had been erased with pumice. The result of this process was called a “palimpsest.” This practice inspired the series Espaces Palimpsestes by the...

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"Schwarzenegger is my idol" is the story about the young guys from Nikolayev, who are united by one thing -the goal to become the best of the best and they will do everything possible to achieve it. The photos show the young people who engage in athletics, acro...

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François-Xavier Seren, photographer and reporter for more than thirty years passed away on December 21, 2012. In 1980, François-Xavier Seren began his career as a photographer. His black-and-white both explore and immortalize subjects from all social backgrounds. Last ...

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The exhibition Corps révélés is an exploration of the body as erotic symbol in the Soviet era, from Perestroika until to today, through its representation in photography. Featuring works by Antanas Sutkus, Igor Savchenko, Igor Moukhin, Evgeny Mokhorev, Margo Ov...

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Yasmina Khadra has always shown a deep interest in anything that relates to his native country, and has expressed himself many times through newspapers articles and novels, despite the threats to his life. In this work, Yasmina Khadra, an Algerian who writes in French, cries out his ...

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The 77-year old British photojournalist Don McCullin recently announced his plan to travel to Syria on assignment. Why did he get involved in this mess? If I have to be Scrooge, then I’ll be Scrooge. I have nothing but respect and admiration for Don McCullin. It’s rare to be ...

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The third issue of the Magazine Gamma/Rapho has just come out for the iPad. It features a video by Jean-Claude Francolon on orphans of the Vietnam War, Vanessa Paradis, Keystone take is on lingerie, the Ecole de Saint Cyr, a report on steel, and a portfolio by Maltête.

The issue can be...

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