Fragility Road Steps of Melancholy I travelled between space and time, between touch and smell, between sight and hearing. Everything was open, closed in my house. The rust-coloured air smells of antiquity. Of an antique that, you feel, belongs to you. Of an antique that speaks to you. That colour speaks to you. Roots present in things appear to you in the flow of views and perspectives. Visions of feeling…
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Being: I am in, I found you I became who I was afraid of becoming. A being with a social form as its only identity. And the worst thing for the one I was is that he did rather well. 40 years ago I was doing photography then for more than 20 years I stopped. I traveled and led a professional career as a sociologist, leaving the photography boxes in…
Skies of Highlands The Scottish Highlands offer an unforgettable experience for those who want to take the time to immerse themselves in them. Many places are renowned for their beauty. But these landscapes would only be a shadow of themselves without the incredible skies that sweep over them. The sky, or rather the skies, are the subjects of this series. The relief is merely a showcase for these masses of…
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Kourtney Roy - Enter as Fiction 3 Kourtney Roy was born in 1981 in Ontario, Canada. She studied Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in photography. Kourtney Roy began making self-portraits at the university. Between fashion portraiture, theatricality and everyday photography, her work shows the cross-over influences between these worlds. Her work blends fiction and self-fiction, and explores the sublime and the strange in everyday life,…
Here is The Best Of from November 2021 by Arthur Dayras. Arthur Dayras is responsible for partnerships for L'Œil de la Photographie and editor at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole. Co-founder of the literary review L'Allume-Feu, he also worked as an assistant curator for the Dia Art Foundation or the independent Arles platform Extramentale.
Cattle that mean the world to the Mundari With 12 million cattle, South Sudan is the country with one of the highest cattle populations in Africa. The Ankole-Watusi cattle of the Mundari are considered the "kings of cattle" thanks to their imposing horns. To say that the Mundari love their cattle is an understatement. Their entire world revolves around them. When I arrive at the camp, located in a clearing,…
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Janet Borden, Inc. presents Fashion Faux Parr, the first exhibition devoted to Martin Parr’s fashion work. Parr has been making photographs for the fashion industry since 1999. This twenty-five year undertaking has seen him travel from Moscow to Bangkok, from Milan to New York, on assignment for various magazines and fashion houses, including his long-standing work for Gucci. Many of Parr’s signature tropes, including vivid colors and a keen appreciation…
Published by Rizzoli, At the Louvre by Robert Polidori is an exclusive look into the preparations behind the Naples in Paris exhibition at the Louvre, beautifully captured by the photographer Robert Polidori. From June 2023 to January 2024, the Musée du Louvre in Paris welcomed sixty major masterpieces from the Museo di Capodimonte, on loan for the exhibition Naples in Paris: The Louvre Hosts the Museo di Capodimonte. The former…
The Provocateur is Ellen von Unwerth’s fifth solo exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery. The photographs included in this exhibition, several of which have never been seen before, reflect a liberated and irrepressible engagement with her subjects that the photographer has championed for her entire career. Von Unwerth notes “I know what it’s like when you feel really uncomfortable, so I do everything in my power to make them feel at ease…
Editions Imogène (with the support of the Antoine de Galbert Foundation) publishes Privaatt, the book by artist Aalam. Regime collapses mark our collective memory. The images of dictators finally defeated, totally vulnerable, have indelibly imprinted our retinas. Benito Mussolini hanging by his feet, Muammar Gaddafi on his knees, Saddam Hussein haggard... With the same aim of annihilating the monstrous power of these tyrants, the Egyptian artist Aalam chose to divert…
The Little Black Gallery presents its new online exhibition Beneath The Surface featuring the work of Canadian photographer Lucas Murnaghan, who died in 2021, on its BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! platform which promotes queer and gay fine art photography. Ghislain Pascal, editor and curator of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! and co-founder of The Little Black Gallery, said: “Lucas joined BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! at the very beginning, in 2018, and the response to…
The Berlin space presents a retrospective of the committed Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT. From her first successes to her practice of land art, through her reinterpretations of classic paintings, the exhibition retraces an entire body of work dedicated to the cause of women. In 1967, at the age of 27, she took the pseudonym VALIE EXPORT. A capital act for the woman who, through this means, got rid of the…
With Cars and Cows, Ute Behrend presents us with her subtle observations on the myth of progress of the American Dream and the fragility of our era – a poetic look beyond the roadside! Just as the American Dream is coming of age and gradually deteriorating, Ute Behrend‘s photographs bring together two outdated models reminiscent of the good old days in the United States: American Classic Cars and old Breeds…
ACC Art Books releases New York: High Life, Low Life by Dafydd Jones. If there was ever a time to get away with a little trouble, it was New York in the 1990's. As Graydon Carter puts it, "This New York was the one of new money trying to catch the attention of old money and of Wall Street vampires who raided the accounts of widows and orphans while their…
17 photographers received this year’s the Guggenheim Fellowship. Since its establishment, the Foundation has granted over $400 million in Fellowships to more than 19,000 individuals, among whom are more than 125 Nobel laureates, members of all the national academies, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Fields Medal, Turing Award, Bancroft Prize, National Book Award, and other internationally recognized honors. The broad range of fields of study is a unique characteristic of…
Until May 11, the Ithaque gallery in Paris is showing an exhibition by Raphaël Gotheil entitled Israel Post October 7. It is accompanied by this text. Hamas’ large-scale attack on southern Israel on October 7th, 2023, set many precedents. Leaving more than 1,200 Israelis dead, mostly civilians, it was the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Unlike any time in Israel’s history, including the 1948 War of Independence,…
Viltin Gallery in Budapest presents Permutation, an exhibition by Péter Tímár as part of the Budapest Photo Festival 2024 program. The photographer writes : I have also learned that one must seek the best. Just as it is the actor's job to find the best tone of voice, the best gesture, so it is with the photographer who seeks the 'best' moment, the best angle, framing, tone. But often this…
Jean-Claude Marguerite sends us this portfolio accompanied by this text: At the beginning of the 2000s, I lived a stone's throw from the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. On my first walk, I was struck by the self-importance displayed by the male busts, almost all made on the same model. I then began to photograph the female statuary, in black and white and in 6x6. I moved shortly after, and another…
Seen on the Corridor Éléphant website this portfolio by Bruno Dumas. He writes : How to explain, or even develop meaning in a speech where just the second is the most important. The instant, so furtive an instinct, challenges our eyes to what must be, perhaps a good image, a beautiful illustration. But this second, just this second when I think I have brushed against the Holy of the Holy…
Éric Alcyon presents the new version of his photographic series Utopia II. This series focuses on the economic crisis of Greek sovereign debt. Born in 1968, Eric Alcyon discovered photography while studying in Quebec, continued at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes, accompanied by commissions and exhibitions, notably at the Mai de la photographie de Reims with a series entitled Hypermarché which shows his interest in the "Thatcher years photographers" such…
Ryan Tidman lives on Vancouver Island, Canada. Growing up reading National Geographic magazines and watching natural history series like Planet Earth, Tidman fell in love with all things in nature. And, after completing studies in Environmental Sciences and Visual Communications at the University of Guelph and the Royal Ontario Museum respectively, he found himself taking every opportunity to get behind the camera lens and document Canada's most iconic animals and…