Magic, Poetry and the Wild Thrills of the Road
Marseille photographer Théo Giacometti spent the month of August traveling across France with his family in a brand new van. Destination: Brittany, the land of the korrigans.
Martin Parr Times Fifteen
The English photographer Martin Parr has his first retrospective in Belgium: Parrathon looks back at a forty-year-long career through fifteen photography series.
Exploring the Role of Color in the Work of Bruce Davidson
Over the course of six decades, Bruce Davidson amassed an extraordinary archive of iconic and rarely seen color work.
Bill Biggart: The Journalist Who Died Photographing 9/11
Bill Biggart was the only journalist casualty in the 9/11 tragedy. When the first plane hit the first tower of the World Trade Center, he picked up his cameras and walked the twenty blocks to the building on fire. He was killed when the second tower collapsed.
DJs, Sunshine, and Class Struggle: a Journey Into Marseille’s Nightlife
Photographer Théo Giacometti documented post-lockdown celebrations in the famous Mediterranean port city. A raw immersion into Marseille’s vibrant artistic scene.
Living Together in Former East Germany
The festival ImageSingulières, in Sète, France hosts until September 5, 2021 an exhibition of the German photographer Ute Mahler, which was to take place last year.
Richard Mosse: Image Explorer
The MAST Foundation in Bologna, Italy is exhibiting nearly 80 large-format photographs by the Irish photographer Richard Mosse in the first major retrospective of this unique body of work that combines photojournalism and contemporary art.
Pictures From One Summer in Italy
In summer 1959, the photographer Paolo Di Paolo and the writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, collaborated on a report on summer holidays in Italy for the magazine Successo. In the summer of 1959, Arturo Tofanelli, director of the Italian magazine Successo, commissioned the photographer Paolo Di Paolo and the writer Pier Paolo Pasolini to do a report […]
How Hannah Wilke Shaped the Conversation About Art and Feminism
The first major retrospective of Hannah Wilke’s work in a decade looks back at the artist’s role in transforming the landscape of contemporary art.
How Lorraine O’Grady Turned Photography Into a Tool of the Black Avant-Garde
Now 86, Lorraine O’Grady receives her proper due with her first museum retrospective, “Both/And” and two new books. At the age of 45, Lorraine O’Grady emerged as an artist fully formed when she made her first public appearance as “Mlle Bourgeoise Noire” in 1980 at Just Above Midtown, the center of New York’s Black avant-garde run by revolutionary […]
Christoph Wiesner: “Photography is About Storytelling”
The former director of Paris Photo is enjoying his first year as the head of the Rencontres d’Arles, in France. While the festival is focused this year on themes of identity and raises some topical issues, Christoph Wiesner shares candid thoughts on photography, its appeal, what it offers, and its usefulness.
Exploring the Relationship Between Keith Haring and Photography
Artist Cey Adams remembers Keith Haring as he was – a friend, colleague, and pivotal figure on the New York art scene in the 1980s – and explains how photography was a precious tool to record their lives.
Erwin Olaf’s Haunting Photographs of Strange and Wild Beauty
The celebrated Dutch photographer and multimedia artist looks back at his 40-year career that poses the age-old question, “What is real?”
From Cuba to Chile, a Migrant’s Search for Freedom in Latin America
The story of one man’s 4,000-mile journey with a single objective: to earn enough money to purchase a camera.
Shared Perspectives on the Transatlantic Underground
The Galerie Miranda in Paris features an exhibition of photographs portraying the heydays of the Parisian and New York independent music scenes—two ways to celebrate youth. Late 1970s, early 1980s: underground culture was in full swing in Paris and New York, two cities that know how to party and where young people were experimenting with […]
The Ambitions of the Collège International de Photographie du Grand Paris
Preserving, experimenting, and passing on the skills and the know-how of pre-digital photography are the main objectives of the Collège international de Photographie du Grand Paris (CIPGP), the brainchild of photo historian Michel Poivert. While waiting to take up its quarters in Daguerre’s house in 2023, this unusual hybrid organization is already hard at work. […]
Kasimir Zgorecki’s Illustrious Studio
In his studio in Rouvroy (Pas-de-Calais, France), Kasimir Zgorecki had memorialized thousands of faces of the Polish diaspora in Northern France. They are now brought together in a wonderful book and an exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Tours, France. Photography allows us to grow fond of strangers who have suddenly entered our lives, […]
“Free Man, You Shall Cherish the Sea Always”
For the past eleven years, the Guilvinec festival has borne witness to man’s relationship with the sea, focusing its programming on a wide variety of documentary work. Much like Baudelaire, photographers have always been fascinated by oceans and shores. Welcome aboard. While the Guilvinec festival’s programming focuses on contemporary photography, one cannot approach the subject […]
The Pleasures of Gay Life in 1950s Fire Island
A new exhibition brings together scenes of LGBTQ life in the years before Stonewall in the famed beach town of Cherry Grove, New York. One of the very first gay beach towns in the United States, Cherry Grove on Fire Island became a weekend and summer destination for the LGBTQ community in the years before the Stonewall riots, widely […]
Nan Goldin on Forging Memories Through Photography
On the occasion of her new exhibition at Marian Goodman, the legendary artist talks about turning photographs into films, and how she keeps the past alive through her portraits.
An Exhilarating Ride Through Miles Aldridge’s Pop Paradise Phantasmagoria
Miles Aldridge’s retrospective exhibition in New York offers a thoughtful meditation on the interplay between religion, consumerism, and spectacle in the twenty-first century.
What You Need to Start Your Career as a Visual Artist
In this article, photographer and educator Gaia Squarci gives her precious advice and tells about her various experiences to get you started in an artistic career.
How to Build a Photography Project
Building a photographic project is a journey that guides you to understand better a topic, and your position in relation to it. Follow photographer Gaia Squarci’s advice to better prepare it and reach your objective.
How to Edit a Documentary Photo Story
Editing can be the hardest and most frustrating process involved in working on a photo project, but ultimately it’s the very moment the story, the atmosphere and the message you intend to convey take shape. I’ll take Dias Eternos, a long-term project shot by photographer Ana Maria Arevalo in Venezuelan prisons and featured by The New York Times and the Pulitzer Center among others, as an example to share a few advice.
How to Edit a Series of Portraits
Javier Sirvent is a photographer, photo editor and curator based in New York. His photographs and writings have been featured in publications such as TIME, TIME Lightbox, New York Magazine, among others. In the following interview, he gives his advice on editing photographs, sequencing a series of portraits and creating a portfolio. Learn how to build a strong portfolio and present it to professionals of the industry.
Stephen Shore: “Photography Isn’t Very Good at Explaining”
Stephen Shore’s latest publication, Steel Town, released by MACK, depicts the fragility of the region in the United States known as the Rust Belt, devastated by the closing of steel mills in the 1970s.
Tracing Photography’s Rise in the Contemporary Art World
In a new book that combines art, history, and memoir, critic Andy Grundberg looks back at photography’s meteoric rise in the 1970s and ‘80s.
Dystopian Visions: When Photographers Create Uncanny Futures
Straddling science fiction and speculative fiction, dystopian stories pervade literature, cinema, and television… In their own way, photographers also explore this genre. Blind has picked four artists with a striking vision and aesthetics.
Roaming the Wild Streets of New York in the 1980s
I don’t take my two eyes for granted. One of my earliest memories was when I was five years old. My father was having an outpatient medical procedure to remove nasal polyps. Evidently the doctor had been drinking and made a mistake, causing my dad to be blinded in one eye. This added to other […]
The Artist Creating Scenes of Black Girl Bliss
In her first book, Revival, Nydia Blas creates a space for love and healing presented through a Black feminine lens.
The Last Great Photographic Treasure Trove of the Spanish Civil War
Two red boxes, uncovered amid garage clutter, contained some 5,000 photos stashed away by the photographer Antoni Campañà. These images of the Spanish Civil War are published for the first time.
Unseen Photographs from Robert Frank’s The Americans
Robert Frank’s magnum opus, The Americans, chronicled the photographer’s journey across the United States between 1955 and 1957 as he sought to capture America in all her glory. Of the 28,000 images he took during this three-year period, a total of only 83 photographs were published in The Americans. Tens of thousands of frames were […]
Harry Gruyaert: “India is a Life Lesson”
The photographer Harry Gruyaert, a member of Magnum Photos, publishes a beautiful photo book on India with Atelier EXB: it’s an immersive experience with a touch of mystery.
Mitch Epstein’s Gripping Portrait of America in the 21st Century
With the new series Property Rights, Mitch Epstein explores the illusory nature of the American Dream and the role of resistance against the powers that be. It wasn’t until photographer Mitch Epstein traveled to India in the 1980s that he began to understand what it means to be an American. By putting distance between himself and the United States, […]
Evgenia Arbugaeva: Northern Tales
The Russian photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva reconnects with her childhood spent in the Siberian tundra. In just a dozen images, she transports us to the hyperborean regions, from Kanin Nos to Enurmino.
Tracing the Evolution of Photographic Styles in America
Photography trends have always come and gone; in the new book Good Pictures, art historian Kim Beil explores how style and culture are inherently intertwined.
Elliott Erwitt’s Rediscovered Photographs
The Magnum photographer’s latest book, Found Not Lost, takes a deep dive into his photographic archive, revealing a new body of work for the first time.
The Raw Poetry of an American Road Trip
The French photographer Théo Giacometti takes us around Las Vegas, to the edges of canyons and across endless plains dotted by roadside motels. In the background: a love story.
Ricky Powell, New York Icon and Hip Hop Photographer, Dies at 59
Reflecting on the troubled life and legacy of Ricky Powell, the charismatic raconteur who made a name for himself on both sides of the camera.
The Egyptian Revolution, Ten Tears Later
Ten years after the start of the Egyptian Revolution, photographer Laura El-Tantawy is releasing a new version of her book In the Shadow of the Pyramids, which chronicles this historic event in her country.
Fascinating Japanese Photography
Maison Européenne de la Photographie’s exhibition Moriyama–Tōmatsu: Tokyo, in Paris, brings together two great Japanese figures, to be discovered also in a catalogue published for the occasion.
Exploring the Magical World of Broadway’s Backstage
Rivka S. Katvan has spent more than thirty years roaming the backstage areas of Broadway’s most famous theaters and taken stunning shots of stars such as Julie Andrews and Elizabeth Taylor as they got ready to go on stage. An impressive body of work that will delight lovers of dramatic art.
Six Spreads: Ralph Gibson Visits Sacred Land
Celebrated photographer Ralph Gibson on making his new book—both its magical images and its spreads that are always greater than the sum of their parts.
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Sky Through Photography
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, organized by the Royal Museum Greenwich, rewards the best astrophotographers from around the world. This year, the competition is open for submissions starting January 11. We take a closer look at this fascinating discipline which is much more democratic than you might think! Andromeda as you’ve never seen […]
Time-lapse Photography: A Guide for Beginners
What is a Time-lapse? Time-lapse photography is a technique in which successive images are shot at regular intervals and then assembled to form a video and create the impression of time lapse. The photography of Time-lapse is a technique that requires preparation and, above all, a lot of patience in order to achieve impressive results that are now within the reach of the general public, provided you follow the following few rules and tips.
