Bud Lee and Newark during the Long, Hot Summer of 1967
In July of 1967, after the arrest and beating of African American cab driver John Smith by the local police force, the city of Newark, New Jersey erupted. Over 5 days, 26 people were killed by police gunfire, hundreds more were injured, thousands were arrested, and millions of dollars of property was destroyed. Photojournalist Bud Lee captured the urban war zone the city became in those fateful days. His photographs have now been published in The War is Here: Newark 1967.
Women Have Their Say at Photo Élysée
This summer, Photo Élysée in Lausanne spotlights women. Committed feminist photographers Laia Abril and Debi Cornwall show us what women have to say about the world.
Laurent Ballesta: Son of the Sea
A diver-photographer, heir to Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Laurent Ballesta has been scouring the abyss for over twenty years in search of the attainable. His images of astonishing creatures owe as much to his technical prowess as to an artist’s soul.
Gloryland, Robert LeBlanc’s Bible
With GLORYLAND, Robert Le Blanc takes us into the rare world of ancient America, a mystical religion on the verge of extinction.
The Forgotten Images of the Spanish Civil War
The Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier features the first exhibition in France of photographs by the Spanish Civil War artist-photographer Antoni Campañà, which had been hidden away for years in two mysterious red boxes.
Rineke Dijkstra: In the Loop
In four hypnotic videos, the Dutch artist recorded teenagers confronting a Picasso painting and gymnasts in search of perfection. High art!
A Journey Through the Life of a Teenage Photographer in the 1980s
Forty years ago, Myles Weissleder was gifted a camera and photographed his life in the New York suburbs and beyond. Long, lost black and white photos that we look at with tenderness.
Irving Penn: Master Portraitist Between Light and Shadow
74 portraits of artists, some exhibited for the first time, grace the walls of the Villa Les Roches Brunes in Dinard, France. The Pinault Collection’s latest exhibition sheds new light on this avant-garde figure’s rigorous and unpretentious signature approach to photography.
Tehrangeles
In her series “Soleil of Persian Square”, devoted to the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles, Hannah Darabi seeks “to evoke the spatial and temporal experience of exile.”
In Arles, Jacques Léonard’s Snapshots
During the Rencontres d’Arles festival, the Musée Réattu is exhibiting a selection of over 150 images by the French photographer who covered the life of a Barcelona gypsy community in the 1950s.
Inside Casa Susanna
An exhibition in Arles and a book by Textuel restore this lost chapter of LGBTQ history in its full glory.
Gregory Crewdson: Quiet Desperation
With an exhibition at La Mécanique Générale in Arles, Crewdson explores the intimacy and vulnerability of feeling alone in the world.
In Arles, a Collection Within a Collection
Classic and contemporary photos are on display in a new exhibition devoted to the Florence and Damien Bachelot Collection, with a focus on the portrait, offering visitors an original journey through the collections of the Réattu Museum in Arles.
The Diane Arbus Experience
Showcasing no fewer than 454 images, LUMA Arles presents the most comprehensive exhibition of the work of Diane Arbus to date.
Harold Feinstein’s Treasure Island
As part of the Rencontres d’Arles festival, the Centre de la Photographie in Mougins spotlights the work of American photographer Harold Feinstein. The exhibition comes at the heels of an outstanding documentary on the life of the artist whose work had long remained in the shadows.
Arles Goes to the Movies
Cannes doesn’t have a monopoly on film: cinema also comes to Arles. From Agnès Varda’s contact sheets to Wim Wenders’s Polaroids, the festival is all about the movies.
At Arles, Photography Takes a Step Aside
The Rencontres d’Arles returns this year with a program dedicated to environmental issues. The festival invites us to rethink our relationship with the living world, even as we try to grapple with the realities of climate change.
Libération Is 50: Eyes on the Struggle
The daily newspaper, affectionately known as Libé, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. In addition to an exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles, the book 50 ans dans l’œil de Libé [50 Years Through the Eyes of Libération] collects some landmark photographs published or commissioned by the newspaper. Blind talks to those who, past and present, have contributed to the famous and inimitable “Libération style.”
Saul Leiter, the New York Nabi
Les Rencontres d’Arles presents a retrospective of images by Saul Leiter, entitled “Assemblages”. An opportunity to revisit the life of this humble American photographer.
Rencontres d’Arles 2023: Get the Program!
The photography festival opens today, featuring 44 exhibitions. We present a sample of the projects showcased in this 54th iteration of the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Profession: Parent Photographer
How to manage family life when your profession encroaches on your private sphere? Three photojournalists share their experiences with Blind.
Milan by Paolo
How Paolo Ventura found a muse of fact and fantasy in Milan.
Quai de la Photo: Images Flood the Seine
A new venue for photographic exhibitions is opening in Paris: Quai de la Photo rethinks the way we experience culture. It is a floating exhibition space that includes a bar & restaurant, a marina, and the new location of La Comète, the Parisian bookshop specializing in photography.
Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith
Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith details the photographer’s career path, which took him from street photography to corporate photography, and then to fashion, for which he is most famous.
Head in the Waves
In I Just Wanna Surf, Gabriella Angotti-Jones combines the immensity of the ocean with the intimacy of her personal story. She shares her inspirations, projects, and photographic process with Blind.
Frank Horvat: Fashion as an Alibi
The Jeu de Paume in Paris presents the exhibition “Frank Horvat. Paris, the world, fashion”. A retrospective of the famous photographer’s first fifteen years of work.
Mystery Street by Vasantha Yogananthan: Louisiana Through a Child’s Eyes
At the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, photographer Vasantha Yogananthan presents Mystery Street, the fruit of a three-month residency in Louisiana. Children’s games, heat, idleness: by capturing the moment, his images focus on movements typical of an age when everything changes.
Lost Photos from the 1971 Glastonbury Festival
Photographer Paul Misso revisits the fabled fair that became the blueprint for the world’s greatest music festival.
Ukraine: A War Crime
The book Ukraine: A War Crime brings together the work of 93 photographers who covered the first year of the war in Ukraine, documenting the fighting, its effects on the population, and the visual evidence of war crimes.
Payram: A Printer in Exile
The Iranian photographer and printer, a loyal friend to Josef Koudelka, recounts for Blind his journey in the company of some of photography’s greats and his forced departure from his native land.
Mous Lamrabat: Luxury in the Bush
Mous Lamrabat’s work combines traditional cultural heritage, Western influences, and ostentatious luxury. Her colorful, subtly provocative world is on display in Toulouse at Galerie Le Château d’Eau, from June 2 to August 27, 2023.
LA’s Legendary ‘70s Skate Scene
Hugh Holland looks back at the first generation of DIY athletes who invented a brand new sport in the backyard pools of Los Angeles.
Le Guilvinec and the Love of the Sea
Spanning four months, from June 1 to September 30, 2023, the Guilvinec Photo Festival offers a new perspective on the Bigouden region. Its 13th edition offers sixteen exhibitions that once again explore the relationship between man and the sea.
Revisiting Peter Hujar’s Underground “Newspaper”
An unlikely discovery and a book brings the New York’s revolutionary periodical back into the spotlight.
The 24 Hours of Le Mans Through the Lens of Joe Honda
To mark the 100th anniversary of the famous car race, Joe Honda’s work is featured in two simultaneous exhibitions on view in Japan at the Maison Franco-Japonaise and the Fuji Motorsports Museum.
New York: Queer Love on the West Side Piers
The American photographer Stanley Stellar revisits New York’s fabled cruising spot during the early years of Gay Liberation.
American Drivers
In “The Seventh Bardo”, photographer Beth Lilly mixes portraits of people in their car, cruising the interstates of the SouthEast United States. Rather than about the car culture in America, this series reveals the emotions of drivers and the surreal experience of the highway.
Vanished
In his series Unperson, on show at the Sit Down Gallery in Paris from June 1 to July 29, Tim Franco recounts the second life of North Korean defectors considered traitors by their former government, and offers a humane look at a predominantly political subject.
An Alternative History of Photography
The result of years of research, the exhibition Photographs: An Early Album of the World (1842–1911) at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, Paris, tells the story of how photography spread to non-European countries. It’s a world tour in 300 images by 101 photographers.
Find Your Ideal Photo Kit with MPB
True to its eco-responsible philosophy, MPB offers its expertise to help you make the best choice in used cameras, while providing a safe platform for buying, selling, and trading photo equipment.
L’Inaperçu: Photography à la Carte
Tucked into a street corner in the Beaubourg district, just a five-minute walk from the Centre Pompidou, l’Inaperçu lives up to its name: this photography bookshop, café, and restaurant rolled into one is unlike any place you’ve ever seen.
An Ode to Intimate Photographs
The International Center of Photography (ICP), in New York, explores the feeling of love through fifteen intimate stories spanning the 1950s to the present.
A Lower East Side Time Capsule
1984. Lower East Side, New York. Almost 40 years later, Tria Govan’s work is published as Tria Giovan: Loisaida New York Street Work 1984 -1990.
Pierre Molinier: The Body at Work
Pierre Molinier, a unique figure in the history of art, is the subject of an extensive exhibition that juxtaposes 130 of his works with some hundred pieces by fifty-three artists. Held at Frac-MÉCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Bordeaux, the exhibition foregrounds the art center’s own collection.
ImageSingulières: A Human Festival
This year, the Sète-based festival celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with eight exhibitions devoted, as ever, to documentary photography. A beautiful festival of the image that knows how to take the pulse of the world.
