I first saw his photographs in the early 1980s, but I didn’t meet him until later. It was in Paris, behind the Centre Pompidou, in the gallery above Viviane Esders, which had also exhibited, among others, Luigi Ghirri. I realized what made these medium-format, black-and-whit...

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The 2013 FotoEvidence Book Award jury included award winning photographer Maggie Steber, the director of Visa Pour L'Image Jean-Francois Leroy, British Journal of Photography photo editor Olivier Laurent, TIME International desk photo editor Patrick Witty and Svetlana Bachevano...

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Gallery Carte Blanche presents WaterLand, a solo exhibition by Donna J. Wan. Water has always been an important theme in art - both as a vital element for humans and the planet and as a sacred symbol of purity. Water covers 71 percent and 140 million ...

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J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is a seminal work about adolescence. The narrator, Holden Caulfield, plagued with doubts about adulthood, takes refuge in dreamlike conversations with his little sister, bluntly sharing with the reader his fragile emotional...

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No smoke is solid. It buds out of the void like a dying organism. Anything that captures it flattens it out, permanently. But it’s impossible to see through. It’s as impenetrable and solid as a sheet of metal.

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The book Gangs Story was written by Kizo, with photographs by Le Journal contributor Yan Morvan. Kizo grew up amid gangs in the Parisian suburbs, where he still lives. Morvan followed him for 40 years, documenting the development of a generation, with their black leather biker jacke...

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The Prix HSBC pour la photographie supports little-known professional artists by helping them to promote their work. Each year, the Prix HSBC sponsors two young contemporary photographers striving to capture the real world on film. There are no prerequisites as...

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The Espace des Arts Sans Fronières in Paris is presenting a week-long exhibition of recent graduates from the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis two-year graduate program of Photography and Contemporary Art. The show was organized by the students themselves, and showca...

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Dozen of unfinished and abandoned structures haunt Bangkok’s skyline. Started in the mid-1990s, many of these building were never used as luxury hotels or fancy apartments. Today – after the 1997 Asia debt crisis – they are the modern ruins of contemporary Bangkok’s landscape. Traces of a...

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Christophe Loviny is the artistic director of the Yangon Photo Festival in Myanmar and I’ve just had a talk with him about the festival and the new photography scene in this country. 
Like in Cambodia (Angkor Photo Festival and Phnom Penh P...

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As we look at the photographs that are shown to us, in print magazine, on websites or on the cell phone screens of our coworkers, we absorb a reality that is not ours. Rather than consuming photography, we are consume by it. 
Image taken with cameras, wether be it point and shoots or s...

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The Beirut Art Center is presenting two exhibitions devoted to documentary and the complex relationship between art and conflict. For Jananne Al-Anie and Eric Baudelaire, landscape plays an essential role. The Iraqi video artist takes inspiration from her personal experienc...

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“Teaching is my greatest work of art,” Joseph Beuys said in a 1969 interview for Artforum, concluding, “The rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible. But after awhile this has only the function of a historic do...

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