Exhibition

Gilles Bensimon
Watercolour

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Hamiltons Gallery presents its first exhibition of photographs by Gilles Bensimon, famed for his decades of work in photography, fashion, and culture. Watercolour is a series of images that Gilles has been creating for the past two years and marks a significant ...

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Portfolio

Gene Lemuel
Kate Moss

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In the very first edition of Le Journal (back when it was called La Lettre) we presented a selection of unpublished Kate Moss photos taken by Gene Lemuel made some fifteen years ago. Recently, other photos have been rediscovered from that same session. We have alre...

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Exhibition

Muntadas: Stop, Look, Listen

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As befits an artist who changes medium as often as he changes location, Antoni Muntadas is hard to pin down. Whether it’s in the street or a museum, on TV or on the web (not to mention his many teaching positions), for Muntadas there’s no wrong place to challenge received ideas and images...

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Magazine

Greece: The third issue of Coil is now available

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Coil is an online publication, a project, which aims to present work from photographers who share common aesthetics, influences, or even working methods. We try to create a series of publications, inspired by the aesthetics of projects like 'Provoke' a...

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Video

MediaStorm: The American-Made - Benny

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Benny Villanova had many lives. 
He is a Sicilian immigrant, a Vietnam veteran, a former sanitation worker, and most recently a “certified” garbologist. Benny scours the neighborhood, collecting what others throw away, then selling these treasures from his storefront garage. He a...

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Book

Miss Rosen
Book Review #48

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Ruins. Empty hollow shells of what once was. Disarray, deshabille, the beautiful poetry of decay. Buildings that once stood, fully functional, making themselves useful to the people that created them to serve a greater purpose. But time passes and use falls away, and buildings that once we...

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Book

Jean-Christophe Béchet
Carnets de voyage

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Jean-Christophe Béchet began his travel diaries in 1987. He went to Timbuktu, a city he had dreamed about since childhood because of its name. In 2012, when he decided to return to the bends of the Niger River, northern Mali was at war. Extremist groups were destroying most...

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Exhibition

Andrew McConnell:
Hidden Lives

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What causes people to flee their homes? 
Persecution, conflict and natural disasters all force people to leave their homes, their possessions, and very often their loved ones, at a drop of a hat to seek safety elsewhere. The most recent crises for urban refugees .
The current conflict ...

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Exhibition

Florence Chevallier:
Atlas

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I search, and photograph, landscapes, humans, animals and architecture, to call attention to the power of the form , that is given by, every single life, that stand as singular and inalienable “beings in the world.” All the elements in the visual vocabulary which I have developed over th...

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Portfolio

Gene Lemuel:
Milla Jovovich

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In Front of The Throne with Gene Lemuel and Milla Jovovich for Flaunt Magazine. 
At Milla's Hollywood villa legendary photographer Gene Lemuel captured portraits of Milla Jovovich for Flaunt magazine. I had the unique experience of being a witne...

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Exhibition

Anvers: Weegee
Murder is my business

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Thanks to the pugnacity of Fomu curators Weegee’s fans in Europe are able to fulfil their appetite for crime and film noir scenes... Last year, ICP featured an impressive «retrospective» in New York of Weegee’s work called Murder is my Business, replaci...

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Awards

Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2013: Submission

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Leica Camera once again invites professional photographers to submit entries to their international photography competition, the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Photographers wishing to take part may submit their photographic projects online between January 15th...

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