In the space of three years, iPhone applications like Instagram and Hipstamatic have become favorites among amateur and professional photographers alike. First seen as merely a retro fad, the saturated and high-contrast images produced by the apps soon began appearing in the pages of the ...

11.02.2013[ read full story ]

About a week ago, Eric Schmidt of Google jumped in a plane to Paris in order to catch Francois Hollande, the French President, himself about to leave for war-torn Mali, for a quick signature photo op. They both happily signed the bottom of a document and departed their own ways. Abo...

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Islahiye,Turkey, a refugee camp for Syrians who have fled the conflict at home, August-September 2012. The Islahiye refugee camp is one of 11 built in Turkey after the army of Al-Assad, known for his cruelty, struck the city of Aleppo. Over 80,000 Syrian refugees have fled the 18...

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Following Chronicles of the Past Life, Bombay (1970s-80s), a singular and vibrant portrait of that large Indian city, these photographs show Calcutta in 1976. They were taken from Pablo Bartholomew’s personal archives for an exhibition and catalogue, The Calcutta Diaries. In 1976,...

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It’s has taken the shape of a fleshy buttock, the edges are worn with bits of tobacco stuck to its center, it’s covered with scratches and has a particular odor, the writing on the back is illegible now, from years of walking and travel. It’s the photograph in your wallet, o...

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This year, along with Košice (Slovakia), Marseille (France) is the European Capital of Culture. With a program on and around the Mediterranean , various exhibitions and the opening of new cultural institutions, Marseille-Provence 2013 hopes to attract a lot of new visitors....

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Olivier Amsellem was born in Marseille in 1971. He now lives and works in Paris. Like a deep scar running through his life, he speaks of the paradoxical feelings that appear in his photographs with detachment and fidelity, love and enmity, severity and irony. A nonconformist exile lo...

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Conceived in seven parts, the exhibition Dépaysement invites a dozen artists to question the idea of exile as an experience to explore and think elsewhere, a place that may lead to different futures: of the self and of the landscape. Exile as a need to find and renew...

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To kick off its 2013 program, the Galerie Hélène Detaille gave carte blanche to Matthias Olmeta, who continues his exploration of the ambrotype (sometimes called ‘collodion positive’). The first works Olmeta produced using this process, Quest for Humility, are reminiscent ...

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From the Bassin de Séon to the foothills of the Massif de l'Étoile, along the banks of the Aygalades and the rue de Lyon, the North of Marseille carries a singular and contradictory yet well-known mythology. While the idle bourgeois lifestyle of the 19th century has long given plac...

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Hrair Sarkissian has turned his attention to a controversial topic in Turkey: a deadly, concerted wave of violence targeting Armenians in 1915 and their forced conversion to Islam. In recent years, some have reconverted to Christianity and asked to change their names...

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Italy, Sicily, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Algeria, Greece, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco, Israel, France, Albania, Palestine: Josef Koudelka has traveled to almost every Mediterranean country. With Marseille the 2013 European Capital of Culture, the region has the place of hono...

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Are you in love and want to tell the world? We’re listening. Send us your Valentine’s Day photo (1024-pixel .jpg file) before February 13th (12am, french time) and we’ll publish it on February 14!

08.02.2013[ read full story ]