David LaChapelle’s Make Believe World Lands at Fotografiska
A retrospective of the fantastical photographer is on display at Fotografiska, in their first building-wide takeover, and LaChapelle’s largest exhibition to date.
Preserving the Culture and Community of Houston’s Third Ward
In his new book Beautiful, Still photographer Colby Deal works to document and preserve the community of Houston’s 3rd Ward. The work is about seeing the community as a whole: no matter how the area and its population are portrayed, it is all beautiful.
Jean-Luc Godard, or the Revolution of Language and Image
Jean-Luc Godard, legend of the French New Wave died on September 13, 2022, in Rolle, Switzerland, at the age of 91, leaving behind a revolutionary filmography and a laboratory of free creation that questioned the powers of the image, its political uses, while reinventing the language of film. Blind also looks back on his career in photographs.
Open-eyed: The Festival Images Vevey
The 8th Images Vevey Biennial, the largest visual arts event in Switzerland, focuses on “living together.” True to its identity, it features monumental outdoor installations and seeks to strike a balance between contemporary art and photography.
William Klein: The Life of a Nonconformist Photographer
The American photographer, who became known for his street and fashion images, died peacefully on September 10 at the age of 96 in Paris, his beloved city. Blind traces the career of the man who helped revolutionize photography.
How Disabled People Feel Trapped on the Ukrainian Front
A visual story by photographer Sasha Maslov / Institute.
Jane Evelyn Atwood : Marginalized Humanity
A retrospective at Château de Laréole (France) sheds new light on the career of this great Franco-American photographer whose monumental body of work probes the hidden worlds of prostitution, transsexuals, AIDS patients, women inmates, landmine victims, and more.
Awestruck, Stretched-Out
Curran Hatleberg’s new book is a fever dream into the deep South.
Images of Queen Elizabeth II’s Extraordinary Reign
On Thursday, September 8, the British royal family announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II, at the age of 96 years. Her seventy years of reign left a well of iconic photographs.
When Art and Fashion Collide
An exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery in New York examines the link between painting, sculpture, and photography, as documented by some of history’s greatest fashion photographers.
Visa pour l’Image in the Shadow of Ukraine
For thirty-four years, the international festival of photojournalism “Visa pour l’Image,” in Perpignan, has reflected the world’s upheavals. Ukraine is necessarily at the forefront of this 2022 reiteration, which is also attentive to other crises and which even manages from time to time to come up for air.
A New Season in Photography at Polyptyque Marseille
It felt good to be in Marseille, on a sunny day in late August. The city had just put on its back-to-school outfit; and this also means the return of the Art-O-Rama, Paréidolie, and Polyptyque art fairs, dedicated, respectively, to contemporary art, drawing, and photography. We walk through the Polyptyque, with a detour via the Thomas Mailaender exhibition at the Centre Photographique Marseille.
The Prime of Life
Photographer Lionel Jusseret spent six months immersed in the day-to-day life of retirement home.
On the Trail of Arthur Rimbaud
Photographer Yan Datessen’s book AR, published by LOCO, the retraces Arthur Rimbaud’s journeys.
Life Before the War in Odessa
Yelena Yemchuk spent five years photographing Odessa and its inhabitants. And then came the Russian invasion.
The Hidden Stories of Trans Women in Beirut
In his fourth issue of Cold Cuts magazine, editor and photographer Mohamad Abdouni continues his work of archiving the trans community in Beirut.
Best Regards, Bernard Plossu
They are heirs to a time in suspension, and their images continue to enrich the world history of photography and our own impatient eyes. Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Bernard Plossu, and an intimate journey across the landscape.
Ricardo Miguel Hernàndez: A Memory Seeker
In When the Memory Turns to Dust, published by 89 books, the Cuban artist Ricardo Miguel Hernàndez works on memory through photomontages.
Jamel Shabazz on the Impact of Leonard Freed’s “Black in White America”
Revisiting the groundbreaking book that transformed a young boy’s childhood in 1960s Brooklyn.
Ukrainian Refugees Continue to Forge New Lives in Slovakia
The Ukrainians who have come to Banská Štiavnica have found help in those who call the town home. Their journeys to Slovakia have not been easy, and the effects of the war have left sometimes invisible marks on those who have arrived. But with the help of the townspeople, they are working to settle down and create new, safe lives for themselves and their families.
Parents-Children and Vice Versa
Two books of photography, one by a mother, Joan Albert (Family Photographs), who photographed her children, and the other by a son, Jean-Jacques Gonzales (Conversation tardive), who recounts the life of his parents via their family photos, provide a glimpse of the complexity and intensity of parent-child relationships. Joan Albert, a mother and photographer For […]
Bob Farese: A Sensory Walk
In Am I Not Light, published by Lecturis, Bob Farese takes us on a journey into his interiority, letting us jolt along in the environment in which he moves about and with which he is confronted.
The Ping Pong Effect
In Italy, Cortona on the Move festival this year focuses on the photographer’s legitimacy and authorship, and on the different applications of photography outside of the fine-art and documentary fields.
When Women Take on the Arts
The 53rd Rencontres d’Arles tackle a much-avoided, even controversial, issue: the exhibition “A Feminist Avant-Garde” takes us back to the 1970s to examine the role of photography in the feminist artistic affirmation of the time.
Are DSLR Cameras Going Extinct?
Amid rumors that Nikon is joining Canon in winding down development and production of DSLR cameras, a look back at the history and impact of the DLSR—and where it’s headed.
Young European Photographers, Episode 2: Sari (Finland)
In the second episode of the documentary series “Young European Photographers,” we meet Finnish artist Sari Soininen and her psychedelic perception of the world, deep in the forests of her childhood. She follows her mistress like a shadow and her wild expression is one of the photographer’s most beautiful shots. Sari Soininen’s little dog sees […]
In Lausanne, Plateforme 10 Unites Visual Arts
Inaugurated on June 18, the new art center Plateforme 10 in Lausanne, Switzerland, brings together three museums devoted to photography, painting, and contemporary art. Their first themed exhibition focuses on the train.
William Klein’s Unseen Photographs of Africa
A new show exhibits a rediscovered series of photographs Klein took on assignment in the early 1960s across West Africa, some never-before-seen.
Party Like It’s Y2K: Scenes From the New Millennium
Mark Hunter aka “The Cobrasnake” revisits an unparalleled era of indie sleaze glamour and nightlife.
Peter Fetterman: The Power of Photography
In a new book, collector and gallerist Peter Fetterman compiles 120 photographs from iconic photographers and new talents alike.
Peter Lindbergh, The Authentic
“It should be the responsibility of modern photographers to free women, and ultimately everyone, from the tyranny of youth and perfection.” This says everything. Peter Lindbergh is not just another fashion photographer. The great age of supermodels at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s—with Linda Evangelista, Estelle Lefébure, Karen Alexander and others on a […]
Trying to Preserve the History of One of LA’s Most Vibrant Neighborhoods
During the pandemic, Emanuel Hahn set out to photograph Los Angeles’ famed Koreatown as way to work out a creative rut, looking at how Covid-19 and gentrification were changing the area. But as he spent more time with the shopkeepers he met, the project became a way to create a record of the lives of the Korean immigrants who have made Koreatown what it is today.
A Sizzling Portrait of Times Square in the 1980s
Jane Dickson revisits the photography practice that allowed her to record and preserve observations that she would later transform into paintings.
Brazil, Fever, Parties & Carnivals
One of the most elegant covered passages in the center of Paris has made room for two Brazilian megacities, Rio de Janeiro and Belém, as they plunge into the splendor and fury of carnivalesque rites and festivities. Entitled “Fever”, Vincent Rosenblatt’s exhibition is on view at the Pierre Passebon Gallery. It offers an eye-popping parade […]
Ukrainian Refugees Look to Slovakia for a New Home
As the War in Ukraine continues, refugees continue to flee from the conflict into neighboring countries. In Slovakia, the Ukrainians who have come to the country work to integrate their lives with those of their new neighbors.
Blind’s Top 10 at Arles 2022 Book Awards
The Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles award 4 book prizes. Three are selected by the Rencontres team: the author’s book prize, the history book prize, and the photo-text prize. The fourth, Luma Foundation’s famous Dummy Book Award, recognizes an unpublished book project. Concurrently, here is our selection of the 10 best publications presented during the […]
Looking at Life After Conflict Through the Work of the International Criminal Court
For 20 years, the International Criminal Court has been meeting with survivors of conflict, their families, and their communities to hear the stories of the worst crimes. Photographers Rena Effendi, Pete Muller, and Finbarr O’Reilly bring their work documenting some of the stories as witnessed by outreach staff in 5 countries to an exhibition at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City. A special chapter on the Democratic Republic of the Congo is also part of the exhibition.
Noémie Goudal: Not our Time
In this interview, artist Noémie Goudal reveals the process behind her work Phoenix, exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles festival, questioning the human notion of time, our perception of the environment and of the images we make of it. The title Phoenix makes me think of Greek mythology, the bird that dies in flames and is […]
Mitch Epstein in India: Tableaux of Reality and Illusion
Exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival, Mitch Epstein’s “In India, 1978-1989” reveals his double vantage point as a westerner and a family member in a complex culture that is often represented one-dimensionally. A quote from his recently published book In India opens this interview, where he talks about the importance of this body of work […]
Donna Ferrato’s Lifelong Campaign for Women’s Rights
With Roe v. Wade overturned, the United States faces a reckoning. Photographer Donna Ferrato’s work sheds light on women’s struggles.
Lucien Clergue: The Arlesian
Grand Arles Express 2022 features a tribute to the photographer Lucien Clergue, co-founder of the Rencontres d’Arles.
At the Heart of Working-class Soccer
Planète Z, as seen through Jeanne Frank’s lens, is on view at the Grange-aux-Belles cultural center in Paris until July 15: experience these very special stands, part and parcel of the Bauer Stadium and Red Star Football Club.
Intimacy as the Compass
The Louis Roederer Discovery Award spotlights ten projects at the Rencontres d’Arles 2022 that take intimacy as their starting point.
The Golden Age of James Barnor
Les Rencontres d’Arles pays tribute to James Barnor, born in Ghana in 1929. From his Ever Young studio, opened in Accra in 1953 to the chromatic years of Swinging London, two exhibitions retrace the itinerary of an intuitive man who never stopped believing in the power of photography.
The Quest for a Blind Spot in Christ’s Iconography
The French photographer Jacqueline Salmon embarked on an unprecedented, five-year-long photographic and documentary adventure: she turned her lens to the blind spot in Christ’s iconography—the perizonium, or the veil of modesty that covers his pelvis. Her work of pure photographic composition is on display at the Réattu Museum as part of the Rencontres d’Arles festival.
