About us
Blind is an online magazine that tells visual stories about the world, through the coverage of photographic news and cultural, social, and geographical phenomena, in French and English.
The editorial staff is composed of specialized journalists, scattered around the world. Our articles are written in accordance with the 1971 Declaration of Duties and Rights of Journalists. Our information is verified with various sources, such as photographers, gallery directors, museums, festivals, and cross-checked with available public sources, and major English and French newspapers.
Our commitment
Blind financially supports the production of visual stories and invites all photographers to submit their portfolios.
Team
Director
Contributors
Sophie Bernard
Sophie Bernard is a journalist specializing in photography, a contributor to La Gazette de Drouot and Le Quotidien de l'Art, a curator, and a teacher at EFET in Paris.
Clara Bastid
Clara Bastid is an independent exhibition curator.
Axelle Bichon
Based in the Paris region, Axelle Bichon writes and sets her lens on her contemporaries and more particularly on the people who keep culture alive. She is also very interested in the environment and its pollution, and in particular realized in 2018, a series on the impact of radioactivity on the vegetation of the Zone 30 in Chernobyl.
Christina Cacouris
Christina Cacouris is a writer and curator based in Paris and New York.
Laurence Cornet
Journalist based in Paris. Also photo editor at Le Monde and Editorial Director of the non-profit Dysturb.
Nathalie Dassa
Nathalie Dassa and is the editor-in-chief of CineChronicle.com and a cultural journalist.
Laure Etienne
Laure Etienne is a journalist based in Paris, and a former member of the editorial staff of Polka and ARTE.
Robert Gerhardt
Robert Gerhardt is a New York based photographer and freelance writer. His photographs and writings have been published nationally and internationally including in The Hong Kong Free Press, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Diplomat.
Sabyl Ghoussoub
Born in Paris in 1988 into a Lebanese family, Sabyl Ghoussoub is a writer, columnist and curator.
Max Hirschfeld
Max Hirshfeld is an American photographer who grew up in a house full of books and music to parents who survived Auschwitz and settled in small-town Alabama. His father, a child prodigy who played piano with The Warsaw Philharmonic at the age of nine, pushed him to explore the arts with a curiosity born from generations of intellectual and artistic pursuits.
Charlotte Jean
Charlotte Jean is a French-Peruvian journalist and documentary filmmaker. She's also a contributor to Beaux Arts Magazine.
Hervé Le Goff
Hervé Le Goff is a journalist, art critic and essayist specialized in photography.
Joy Majdalani
Dublin-based writer and content editor.
Michaël Naulin
Michaël Naulin is a journalist. Having worked in regional and national newspapers, he is above all passionate about photography and more particularly reporting.
Céline Nebor
Photographer and journalist specializing in photography, based in Paris. Manages the Tips section of Blind. Also writes for Phototrend.
Brigitte Ollier
Brigitte Ollier is a journalist based in Paris. She has worked for over thirty years for the newspaper Libération, where she created the column “Photographie.” She is the author of several books about a few memorable photographers.
Colin Pantall
Colin Pantall is a writer, photographer and lecturer based in Bath, England. His photography is about childhood and the mythologies of family identity.
Cathy Rémy
Journalist at Le Monde, in Paris. Director of photography at the special issues of M Le Monde. Also collaborates to Camera and Aperture.
Sara Rosen
Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer focusing on art, photography, and culture. Her work has been published in books and magazines, including Time, Vogue, Aperture, and Vice, among others.
Bill Shapiro
Bill Shapiro is the former editor-in-chief of LIFE magazine. Follow him on Instagram at @billshapiro.
Diane Smyth
Journalist based in London. Worked for 15 years at the British Journal of Photography. Also writes for The Guardian and The Observer.
Gaia Squarci
Gaia Squarci is a photographer, videographer and writer who divides her time between Milan and New York, where she teaches Digital Storytelling at ICP. Gaia is a contributor of Prospekt, an IWMF fellow and National Geographic grantee. Her photography has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Time Magazine, Vogue, The Guardian, Internazionale, The Washington Post, among others.
Jean-Denis Walter
Jean-Denis Walter is a journalist, former director of photography and editor-in-chief of L’Equipe Magazine. He now runs the Jean-Denis Walter Gallery.
Translators
Agnès Clerc
Écrivaine, docteure en philosophie et titulaire d’un doctorat en littérature française. Vit et travaille à Paris. A publié quatre romans aux éditions du Seuil à Paris.
Diane Eberhardt
Traductrice et écrivaine qui vit dans le Colorado, aux États-Unis.
Ela Kotkowska
Écrivaine, éditrice et traductrice indépendante basée à New London dans le New Hampshire, aux États-Unis.
