Exhibition

Antoine d'Agata by Christine Ollier

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Antoine d’Agata is barely fifty years old and already a living legend. The stunning installation , currently on view at Le BAL, defies the classical approach to a retrospective. It endows the work with a new amplitude by showing the tensions connecting the “day ima...

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Exhibition

Gérard Musy:
Lustres & Lamées

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Two series by Swiss photographer Gérard Musy, Lustres et Lamées, take us back to the seductive nights of the 1980s. In these sophisticated black-and-white photos, genders and classes blend together into a potent cocktail of nocturnal energy. In Paris, there was the Palace a...

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Exhibition

New-York: Erwin Olaf
Berlin

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Last week we covered the Erwin Olaf exhibition in London. Now the same series, Berlin, is on view at the Hasted Kraeutler gallery in New York. The photographs of Erwin Olaf are intriguing for their preciousness, their sense of detail and their strangeness. Olaf has long ...

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Book

À la lumière de l'ombre
Photograms 1999-2009

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Describing this book is a challenge. It’s both a way to display the artwork and the artwork itself. The story of its creator, Frédéric Vidal, is already unusual enough. At 33 he gave up his career in fashion photography to travel and experiment with ph...

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Exhibition

Gentilly: Jean-Pascal Imsand, Photographer

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The Maison de la Photography Robert Doisneau in Gentilly is exhibiting a selection of prints, engravings, photomontages and publications by Swiss photographer Jean-Pascal Imsand. The exhibition ends May 12, 2013. Readers may be familiar with his work, which...

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Exhibition

Rio de Janeiro: Latin-American Photo Books

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After stops in Paris, Madrid and New York, the exhibition Fotolivros latino-americanos is now on view at the Institut Moreira Salles in Rio de Janeiro. The focus is Latin-American photography books since the 1920's, says curator Horacio Fernandez, with 66 books, 120...

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Awards

Bourse du Talent: Reportage 2013

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Organized by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Herez, Nikon, Picto, PixPalace and Photographie.com, the Bourse du Talent has been awarded every year since 1998 to young artists in four categories: reportage, fashion, portrait and landscape. The application submission deadline for ...

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Portfolio

Camille Lepage:
3 Weeks in Sudan

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I am a photojournalist based in Juba, South Sudan. Last November, I reported on refugee camps in Yida South Soudan. The civilian areas of this region have been shelled at random by the Bashir government for the past year and a half. The locals have no choice but to take refuge in th...

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Exhibition

Alger: Nadjib Rahmani
Horse and Fantasia

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Photography has pride of place at the Galerie Azzou’ART in Algiers. For the past few days, visitors have had the opportunity to discover the exhibition of Nadjib Rahmani, whose excellent photos belong to the true tradition of classical photography. The photo...

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Web Review

Facebook: Pauline Auzou
Vacation Photos

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You yourself started the countdown a few weeks before when you posted on Facebook, “I’ve got my tickets to Bali!” When the day came, Facebook geo-localized you at the airport. And where there’s vacation, there’s vacation photos. In the 1980s, Richard Chalfen, a professor of a...

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Magazine

Warsaw : doc! photo magazine #9

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The March issue of doc! photo magazine is now available, with eight new stories. To introduce this new edition, we published Michael Biach's story named "Slum life of Roma kids in LunÍk IX". 
Luník IX is an apartment complex in the southwestern suburbs of Koš...

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