AI-Generated Images: A Visual Revolution
Midjourney, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion: artificial-intelligence software generating images has been perfected and democratized, leading to a real revolution in the visual industry. Faced with the devouring ambitions of these new technologies, image professionals are trying to assert their rights and raise awareness about the magnitude of the financial, but also ethical, challenges presented by AI.
In the Sweat of Their Brow
For several years, the French photographer Victorine Alisse has shared her daily life with farmers and fishermen of France. Here she tells the story of the last chapter in her series On avait tous un paysan dans la famille [We’ve All Had a Farmer in the Family].
Looking at Iraq Through the Eyes of Civilians
Disposable cameras tell the story of Iraq and the problems the country has faced in trying to rebuild itself.
Jessica Lange: Alone in the City
In her new book “Dérive,” the legendary American actress bears witness to a city stricken with grief, confusion, and loss during the pandemic.
The Many Lives of Hannibal Volkoff
For more than a decade, Hannibal Volkoff has been photographing his daily life and the feverish nights of an uninhibited underground. The artist and now gallery owner bears witness to, and lives in, a world where gentleness confronts harsh reality.
Following the Legendary White Horses in Camargue
The Camargue Horse is often called “the Horse of the Sea”. It has inhabited this region in South of France for thousands of years, along with Pink Flamingos, Grey Herons, black bulls, and the many sounds of nature.
Where Contemporary Art Meets the Perche Heritage
Le Champ des Impossibles, in France, invites visitors to its fourth iteration, once again offering a diverse photographic journey—and more.
Documentary Photography Revolution Is On
Since 2015, the Salon Photo Doc in Paris (May 12–14) has been putting new documentary photography in the spotlight. This is an opportunity to look at how the genre has evolved and discover new forms of expression in what has long been considered the most noble of the photographic genres.
Lars Tunbjörk: A View From the Side
In the deadpan yet piercing rendition of the everyday, Swedish photographer Lars Tunbjörk’s images depict the commonplace in a most un-commonplace way. And though Lars is the most common male name in Sweden, his images are anything but common.
Tseng Kwong Chi’s Iconic Portraits of Art Stars
Known for his self-portraits, the American photographer Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) immortalized artists like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat or Andy Warhol.
Valérie Belin: Pop & Pep
In a subtle monograph coupled with a retrospective in Tourcoing, France, the artist bends the medium of photography at whim.
Bernard Plossu’s Time Regained
At 78, French photographer Bernard Plossu reveals previously unpublished photographs in an exhibition entitled “The American Years: Unpublished photographs 1966–1985” at Galerie du Jour Agnès b, in Paris. While his cult book Le Voyage Mexicain is being reissued by Contrejour, and at least three others are in the works, something has happened. Something that made him inconsolable.
Lionel Kazan: An Ode to Femininity and Elegance
Lionel Kazan is one of those photographers who stayed out of the limelight and helped shape the image of fashion and style in major magazines in the mid-twentieth century. Following the publication of a coffee-table book devoted to his work, the photographer’s daughter Alexandra Kazan continues to pay tribute to her father and celebrate his artistic talent with an exhibition in Nice, France.
Kyotographie: Breaking Borders in Japan and Beyond
Established in 2013, Kyotographie International Photography Festival takes over the ancient city for a month every spring, presenting exhibitions at unexpected venues all over the city.
The Women on Ward 81
In 1976 photographer Mary Ellen Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the women who were living in the locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. Over the course of 5 weeks while living and working in the hospital, the two women interviewed and photographed the women on Ward 81.
Vince Aletti on the Transformative Power of the Printed Image
With the book The Drawer, the author Vince Aletti shares his personal passion for collecting and curating images drawn from daily life.
How AI Imagery is Shaking Photojournalism
In this Op-ed, independent photography director and educator Amber Terranova discusses one of the most controversial AI imagery projects in recent weeks.
Niort Celebrates Emerging and International Photography
From March 25 to May 27, the Rencontres de la Jeune Photographie Internationale in Niort, France, will host a creative residency for seven emerging international artists and offer an extensive exhibition throughout the city.
Micha Bar-Am: A Rendez-vous in the Heart of Israel
Director Ran Tal’s 2022 documentary is a precious encounter with Micha Bar-Am, a photographer who has archived the memory of the Jewish state.
The Everyday Bronx
Founded in 2014, Everyday Bronx is an Instagram account that looks to rewrite the narrative of the Bronx, telling the complex stories of the often-overlooked borough one photo at a time. The Bronx Documentary Center, in New York, working with photographer and curator Rhynna M. Santos, brings together prints and video displays from the project to show the importance of this online archive of Bronx life.
Cannes Festival Poster: The Story Behind the Iconic Photo
Last Wednesday, April 19, the Cannes Film Festival unveiled its official 2023 poster: a beautiful, timeless shot of Catherine Deneuve taken in the French Riviera. Blind tells you the story behind this iconic photo.
Ukrainian Photographer Wins World Press Photo Award
Each year, the World Press Photo contest rewards the most outstanding photos of the year. On Thursday, April 20, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka received the World Press Photo of the Year award for his picture of the besieged maternity ward of Mariupol, in Ukraine.
Best Regards, Willy Rizzo
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: Willy Rizzo and his constellation of stars.
A Photographic Celebration of Black Life
In Black Archives, Renata Cherlise brings together vernacular photographs made between the 1930s and the 1990s to celebrate Black America and preserve Black American history.
Dave Heath: King of the Street
In sixteen exceptional vintage prints, the Miranda Gallery honors a photographer obsessed with darkroom encounters.
Katinka Bock: Sculpting the Moment
Through April 29, 2023, “Der Sonnenstich”, the first exhibition of Katinka Bock’s photographic work, is on view at the Pernod Ricard Foundation in Paris.
This Is Britain: The Ship is Sinking
The idea behind “This is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s” is simple. It shows the work of photographers “who recorded ways of life that were under threat or disappearing.” It shows the influence of car culture, migration, de-industralisation, and banking deregulation on a nation that found itself in various pockets of decline in […]
In the Eyes of Anthony Barboza
The new book “Eye Dreaming” brings together a vivid tapestry of works from a singular career that transformed the landscape of photography.
Barbara Iweins: Feeling at Home
To overcome her grief, Barbara Iweins chose to photograph it. Strangely, it is by adopting a documentary approach that she succeeds in touching us and freeing herself from a painful past.
Traveling to Space From Your Backyard
“The Rocketgirl Chronicles”, by Andrew Rovenko, is a heartwarming personal project that follows the adventures of one little astronaut. As the photographer’s daughter keeps exploring the neighborhood, the child’s curiosity and imagination is able to transform even the most mundane of surroundings into otherworldly and often haunting scenes.
Glamour as Resistance
With flowers, wigs and sequins, Harry James Hanson and Devin Antheus pay a colorful tribute to the legends of drag.
The People of the South Bronx
For their first major survey since 1991, artists John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres team up to create an intimate look at their community.
The Rise of Wildlife Photography
Long denigrated and considered to be an inferior genre of only illustrative value, wildlife photography had been a wild card in the history of photography. Today, the discipline, addressing artistic, technical, and ethical issues, has been made more accessible through societal and technological developments and has seen a rise in its popularity and reputation.
The Transformative Power of Portrait
“Face to Face” looks at the portrait as a decisive encounter between two artists working in collaboration.
Let’s Celebrate The Photography Show!
The Photography Show presented by AIPAD, the longest-running photography fair, returns to New York, March 31-April 2.
Long Live Photography at Art Paris!
A major springtime event in modern and contemporary art, Art Paris celebrates its 25th anniversary at the Grand Palais Éphémère from March 30 to April 2, 2023. Like its predecessors, this anniversary edition throws photography into limelight among the 900 artists on view. A sample to whet your appetite.
Elliott Erwitt: An Explosion of Color
The Maillol Museum in Paris devotes a stunning retrospective to the iconic American photographer Elliott Erwitt. The exhibition takes us through a full career made up of moments of fun and turning points in history.
Madame d’Ora: The Woman Explorer
An exhibition dedicated to Madame d’Ora at the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier retraces the extraordinary career of this pioneering portrait photographer active in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. On view until April 16, 2023.
Rencontres d’Arles 2023: Get the Program!
The photography festival unveils this year’s program, featuring 44 exhibitions. We present a sample of the projects showcased in this 54th iteration of the Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles.
Pierre Verger, the Traveller
A new book revisits the extraordinary archive of French photographer Pierre Fatumbi Verger.
A Journey to the Land of the Mennonites
Larry Towell spent ten years among North American Mennonite communities. His sensitive account of the experience was reprinted in 2022 by Gost.
The Photobook: An Independent Art
Throughout its history, photography has been diversifying modes of production and distribution. Among them, the photobook is certainly one of the best known and the most consistent, making the Eighth Art indissociable from paper. To create book-objects, many publishers engage in a creative competition. Many do it out of love, and know how to take risks that encourage emerging talents. Before we enter this world apart, let’s take a look at what happens on the other side of the page.
The Mafia in Palermo: “There Could be Three Murders Within a Couple Hours”
The Sicilian photographer Fabio Sgroi talks to Blind about Palermo’s darkest hours and the festering wars between rival mafia clans.
Anders Petersen at Café Lehmitz: The Jukebox Plays On
Anders Petersen’s legendary work at the bar Café Lehmitz, taken in 1960s Hamburg, Germany, is being re-released this month.
Afghans and Roses
A few months after her exhibition Afghanistan, “Roses under the Thorns” at the Espace des Femmes, in Paris, Oriane Zerah publishes a book under the same title.
