Léa Habourdin: Forest-Images
A major theme in contemporary artistic expression, this year nature is again at the heart of many exhibitions at the annual Rencontres d’Arles photography festival. For the festival, it’s a way of reflecting one of today’s major concerns, but it’s also a way of reflecting the diversity of artistic approaches. Blind takes a closer look […]
Red Cross and Photography: Linked Fates
The Red Cross, in collaboration with the Rencontres d’Arles, presents a rarely exhibited photographic heritage. “To Heal a World” is a survey of the history of humanitarian photography from 1850 to the present.
Movement and Space Through the Eyes of Babette Mangolte
The photographer, filmmaker, cinematographer, artist, and author of critical essays Babette Mangolte is being honored with the Women in Motion Photography Prize at the Rencontres d’Arles photography showcase for her body of work, which spans fifty years and has focused on dance, performance, cinema experimental cinema, subjectivity and the spectator.
Lee Miller: From Vogue to Buchenwald and Dachau
The exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles retraces the most intense decade in the life of the American model and photographer Lee Miller, who became a war correspondent during World War II.
Bernard Plossu’s Italian Miniatures
In the exhibition “Plossu – Granet, Italia Discreta,” concentrated on Italy, the curators Bruno Ely and Pamela Grimaud create links between Bernard Plossu’s photographs and the paintings of François-Marius Granet.
Sandra Brewster: « Blur », to Regain a Sense of Self
In her “Blur” series, “a metaphor for movement or change from one place to another,” the Canadian multimedia artist continues to investigate memory and migration, while honoring her community. A minimalist exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles.
Feathered Divas
Twelve international photographers, one theme. The Galerie le Château d’eau in Toulouse is hosting “Birds” until August 21. Diversity – black and white, color, small and large formats – is featured in this exhibition inspired by the eponymous book collection of Atelier EXB.
Young Maroon Photographers Reappropriate Their Own History
The exhibition “Marronnage: The Art of Breaking One’s Chains,” presented at the Maison d’Amérique Latine in Paris, features a section dedicated to photography by young Maroon artists who are taking possession of their own history.
From Beyoncé to Burna Boy: Daniel Obasi’s Revolutionary Afrofuturism
The Nigerian photographer uses art as a tool of social activism to confront systems of power used to oppress vulnerable communities.
Exploring Female Power, Sexuality and Dominance
Helmut Newton and Renée Jacobs co-exhibit their erotic photographs of women as subject rather than object.
Communism(s): A Cold War Album
Autocracy is on the rise. An obvious statement maybe, but one rooted more and more firmly in the present albeit with a shaky-hand salute to the past. From Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, through Napoleon, Stalin, and Hitler, and more recently, Hussein, Assad, and Orban, autocratic rule has caught fire and threatens the order […]
From One Exile to Another
In her exhibition “Desmemoria”, Laetitia Tura weaves together stories of refugees who had once crossed the French-Spanish border to escape fascism and those who, in the present, are following the same path, risking their lives and traveling thousands of miles.
Music and Photography: Two Great Tastes That Go Together
“For the Record: Photography and the art of the Album Cover” is a musical trawl through the history of photography. Curated from the collection of Antoine de Beaupré, it features images by the great, the anonymous, and the forgotten.
Thomas Hoepker Looks Back at Six Decades of Photojournalism
The Magnum Photos member revisits his storied career in a new exhibition and monograph.
Laurent Reyes: A 21st-Century Beatnik
Canicule, Laurent Reyes’s book, published by Arnaud Bizalion, records his and his friends’ daily life spent sunbathing and flirting like twenty-first-century beatniks.
Revisiting the Wild Nightlife Scene of Late ‘90s UK
Ewen Spencer looks back at the start of his career documenting British nightclub culture for Sleazenation magazine.
Living on the Streets in One of America’s Richest Cities
For six years, Robert Gumpert documented the unhoused in San Francisco. Division Street is the culmination, named for the street where the project began. Combining first-person narratives, found text and Gumpert’s photographs, it is the story of lives lived on the streets in one of the richest cities in America.
Guillaume Herbaut: “When you cover a conflict, I think it is essential to know the country, its culture, and its history”
A member of the VU’ Agency since 2021, Guillaume Herbaut has been observing history and current events with a keen eye for over thirty years. Ranging from photojournalism to visual art, his work brings a breath of fresh air to documentary photography. Blind sat down to an open conversation about professional photojournalism in the present […]
The Historic Selma to Montgomery March
In Selma to Montgomery March, published by Tritone Press, photographer Wayne Levin revisits his archive and the famous civil rights protest that resulted in the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Thomas Boivin: The Art of Hand-held Camera
In his “true” second book, Belleville, Boivin homes in on a territory that is familiar to him, without trying to comment on it socially or even intellectually. Pure joy.
Tender Portraits of Black Girls Coming of Age
A new exhibition brings together the work of over 85 Black women, girls, and genderqueer artists to radically reimagine our world through their gaze.
Black Power and Pride on the Streets of New York
With “Positive Images,” Russell Frederick uses photography to uplift, empower, and celebrate Black culture and identity.
Andreas Vassiliou: A Cypriot Life
Andreas Vassiliou’s Cypriots, published by Tritone Press, looks back at some of the photographer’s most poignant images of his native island.
100 Churches in Venice
A tour of Venetian churches by photographer Alejandro Merizalde.
Maurice Broomfield: When Things Could Only Get Better
Featuring pictures of steelworks, weaving looms, and giant gears. Maurice Broomfield’s wonderful images of British industry capture both the optimism of 1960s Britain, but also the otherworldly nature of industrial sights.
Corsica of Yesterday, by Jacques Boyer
Photographer and “science publicist,” Jacques Boyer immortalized Corsica in the early twentieth century.
Political and Social Struggles in Ireland
The exhibition “Protest!” presented at the Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin, looks back on the works of more than 40 photographers on various political and social struggles that took place in Ireland from the 1960s.
Following the Call: Celebrating the Spirit of Black Egypt
Chester Higgins Jr.’s new book Sacred Nile explores the timeless role of faith as it connects past and present.
August Sander: A Universal Œuvre
The Centre Pompidou exhibition, in Paris, devoted to the innovative New Objectivity movement of the 1920s, showcases August Sander’s work, distributed among seven thematic groups, just the way the photographer had originally intended.
Nadav Kander on Following the Thread of Inspiration
The Prix Pictet-winning photographer’s work, from celebrity portraiture to atmospheric landscapes, is neatly tied together in a new exhibition at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.
ImageSingulières: The Art of Time
Dwarfed by the mammoth Arles and Perpignan festivals, ImageSingulières defends documentary photography in its own way. Highly anticipated after a two-year-long interruption, the 14th iteration of the festival, held in Sète until June 12, has attracted hundreds of visitors to date.
Through the Window
Khashayar Javanmardi photographs Iran through train windows.
Inside Italian Psychiatric Prisons
“O.p.g Criminal Asylum” is photographer and editor Mauro D’Agati’s immersion in the psychiatric prisons of Napoli, Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Castiglione delle Stiviere and Aversa, Italy, in 2001. A few years later these judicial psychiatric hospitals closed, an event that marks the history of the health care reform and custody system for people with mental […]
What Thai Youth Has to Say
A street photographer, an enthusiast of raw collages, and a documentary photographer: three young Thais present their vision of their transforming country.
After the crimes
The photographer Pawel Starzec shows in his photos where war crimes took place during
the Bosnian War, 30 years ago. By doing so, he not only documents the crimes but he also
opens up difficult questions about how the country remembers these events.
From the Bronx to the 2024 Olympic Games, Breaking Rises Again
Frank “B-boy Frankie” Perez offers an insider’s look at Hip Hop’s legendary dance form.
Elizaveta Porodina: Psychedelic Melancholy
Fotografiska Stockholm showcases the fashion and art photographer Elizaveta Porodina with the exhibition окна [okna] (windows). A world première.
Fear and Loathing in the Photobook
When Hunter S.Thompson killed himself with a handgun in 2005, he left behind a legacy of high energy drug-fuelled journalism that covered American politics, music, and culture over the previous 50 years. Much of this was made at Owl Farm, the Colorado retreat where typewriters, drugs, whiskey, and guns were all part of the creative […]
A Photographic Celebration of Black Pride and Joy
As We Rise brings together more than 100 works to create an unforgettable portrait of Black life on both sides of the Atlantic.
Through Lauren Walsh’s Lens: The Pandemic and Black Lives Matter
In 2020 the United States were shaken by both social and political upheaval all while a pandemic raged across the country, and both of these historic events ultimately played out on a global stage. The Black Lives Matter Movement and the surge of Covid-19 both presented new challenges for photojournalists covering the events, and have caused a revaluation of ethical, technical and safety protocols in their wake.
Jeanloup Sieff : A Photographic Journey in the Death Valley
Through the publication of a biography by Claude Nori and the reissue of La Vallée de la Mort [Death Valley], a work published in the 1970s that has been out of print for more than a decade, Contrejour editions are once again shining the spotlight on Jeanloup Sieff, who passed away in 2000.
Flesh, Fame, and Fantasy: Jet Setting Through the 1980s Art World
In a new exhibition and book, Christopher Makos revisits his star-studded archive for an intimate look at the bold and the beautiful.
Didier Ben Loulou’s Wandering Mediterranean Journey
In the book Méditerranée, Didier Ben Loulou presents a series of iconic images from his body of work.
Édouard Boubat : A Velvet Gaze
The newly renovated Galerie Rouge has launched a new exhibition devoted to the first decade in the career of the humanist photographer Edouard Boubat. Covering the years 1946 to 1957, it aims to understand how he developed his way of looking and the gentleness that characterizes his photographs.
Energy, Intensity and Sensitivity: The World of George Tice
Now 84, George Tice revisits his life work in a six-decade magnum opus premiering at The Photography Show presented by AIPAD.
