Anita Conti: Lady of the Sea and of Photography
An oceanographer, writer, and photographer, Anita Conti has sailed tirelessly, observing the ocean and the men who fish marine fauna she sensed was in danger. A new book recounts the life of this exceptional woman, and her connection to Brittany, a land which, just as she does, follows the rhythm of the sea.
How Andy Warhol Used Photography to Create his Visual Diary
The new exhibition “Andy Warhol: Photo Factory” in New York offers an expansive look at the artist’s enduring love of photography.
Patrick Wack’s Exploration of the Decried East Turkistan
Patrick Wack’s new book Dust is a look into an area of the world where things aren’t as idyllic as they seem.
Territory and Memory: Four Road Trips across Forgotten Russia
Today’s Russia is known mostly for its politics, the splendor of Saint Petersburg, and Moscow’s monuments. To get into the heart of the largest nation on the planet, Blind hits the road with four young photographers who explore their country’s territory and memory.
The Recipients of the 42nd W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant
The Award is being shared among five photographers covering stories from around the world. Each winner will receive $10,000 to be used to continue their individual projects on a range of subjects.
Mike Mandel Remixes the Photographs of Ansel Adams
In Zone Eleven, Mike Mandel unearths 75 largely unknown images that reimagine the expectations of an “Ansel Adams” photograph.
Six Pictures: Gordon Parks’ Cinematic Style
A new exhibition looks at how the legendary photographer used a filmmaker’s eye to make memorable documentary images.
Madrid: Little Hollywood
In the “Mad about Hollywood” exhibition, we take a look back at the impact Hollywood made on Madrid and the surrounding area during the 1950s and 1960s.
Mari Katayama: Self-Portraits in Sculpture
Dedicated to young artists, the Studio of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie is hosting the Japanese artist Mari Katayama and her unusual self-portraits: it’s a strange world where the marvelous is coupled with the disturbing.
The Thomas Walther Collection: The Advent of Photographic Modernity
The Jeu de Paume is showcasing the first exhibition in France devoted to the Thomas Walther Collection of photography, one of the pillars of MoMA’s modern collection. Covering 230 images, out of 350 total, “Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900–1940: The Thomas Walther Collection” spotlights the European and American art networks of the 1920s which invented photographic modernity.
The Uncanny Valley of Veles
Photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen questions the nature of fact and fiction in photography while examining fake news and the people who engineer it.
Paris Treize: Mineral Architectures
The architect and photographer Paul Rousselet strolled through the 13th Arrondissement of Paris, looking for characteristic buildings which make the neighborhood unique. We follow along, against the backdrop of concrete.
Ruth Orkin : Stolen Moments
A new exhibition and book celebrate the extraordinary legacy of American photographer Ruth Orkin, one of the most influential women photographers of the twentieth century.
Martin Bogren: Just Passing Through
With his tenth book, Passenger, published by Lamaindonne, the Swedish photographer Martin Borgen moves resolutely towards light and color.
Culinary Photography: A Feast for the Eyes
Discover the work of women and non-binary photographers transforming the way we look at food.
La Gacilly: Northward Bound
At the beginning of the summer, the 18th Festival of Photography set sail for the Far North. In the heart of the charming town of the Morbihan region, in France over 1,000 images celebrate Scandinavian and Nordic photography in every format. The adventure continues through October 31, 2021.
Lisette Model: A Photography Lesson
Featuring a selection of images from the 1930s through the 1970s, an exhibition at Baudoin-Lebon gallery in Paris allows us to rediscover some landmark series in the career of the pioneering street photographer, Lisette Model.
Antonin Personnaz: Impressionist Photographer
Between 1907 and 1914, Antonin Personnaz took advantage of a new photographic process, the autochrome, to immortalize the Oise Valley in color. An exhibition in Pontoise, France puts these impressionist images in the spotlight.
Righting Auto-Rotate and Crop
I have a slightly dysfunctional relationship with my iPhone. It shows all the signs of codependency: I love that my iPhone is always there for me. It confirms my expectations when I photograph the beach at sunset and it flatters me in portrait mode. But, I also revel in its failures. I sigh at the […]
Ursula Schultz-Dornburg in the Land of the Bugis
During a trip to Indonesia in 1983, the German artist Ursula Schultz-Dornburg discovered the houses of the Bugis people. A book published by Mack now brings together her images of these dreamy structures.
Fire According to Francesca Piqueras
In her new “Fire” series on view at the Galerie de L’Europe, in Paris, photographer Francesca Piqueras gets as close as possible to this element.
Christopher Anderson: In the Name of the Son
Seven years after its first publication, Christopher Anderson’s book Son is available again in a new, expanded edition. This sensitive, sunny book revolves around the photographer’s son, Atlas.
Rare Photos of Busta Rhymes at the Dawn of His Career
On the 30th anniversary of their 1991 debut, Janette Beckman uncovers unseen photos and video of Leaders of the New School.
The Poetry of the Topsy-Turvy Disarray of African Cities
The exhibition “Hybrid Cities” explores the notion of Africanness by showcasing images by five photographers from the African continent who choose cities as their subjects.
Slugs, Snails, and Little Deer Tails
The new book Growing Spaces by photographer Chris Hoare is a chronicle of urban land cultivation in Bristol, UK. Since April 2020, the photographer has been slowly and methodically documenting eleven sites across the city, from established allotment sites to community gardens and improvised plots on disused lands.
Jacob Ehrbahn: On the Roads of Exile
Jacob Ehrbahn spent five years traveling the roads of exile. From 2015 to 2020, the photographer followed migrants who came to Europe in search of the European dream. A combination of hope, misery and disillusion, the book A Dream of Europe is a powerful photographic and written account of that search.
Seeing Swallows in a New Light
Photographer Rinko Kawauchi’s latest book, Des Oiseaux, captures Japanese swallows bathed in an opalescent light.
Lebogang Tlhako’s Fashion and Nostalgia
With her series “Sibadala, Sibancane,” photographer Lebogang Tlhako evokes the bond she had with her mother in collages where fashion and nostalgia come together.
Anna Lim: Staged Disaster
Photographer Anna Lim captures the pervasive sense of angst that permeates Korean society. Her thought-provoking works have been collected in the book Anxiety On / Off, published by Kehrer.
Faces of New Yorkers Looking at Ground Zero
Photographer Kevin Bubriski made five trips to the World Trade Center site from his home in Vermont. He undertook the first trip two weeks after the 9/11 attack. The last one took place on December 19, 2001. He felt the need to witness and understand the impact of the New York City tragedy through his camera.
Gulnara Samoilova: A Woman Journalist at Ground Zero
On September 11, 2001, photographer Gulnara Samoilova was in downtown Manhattan when the World Trade Center terrorist attacks happened. Her images were awarded with a World Press Photo in 2002 and published in a book, Women Journalists at Ground Zero.
Joe Conzo, an Emergency Medical Technician, on the Impact of 9/11
For many, 9/11 did not end on that day. First responder Joe Conzo looks back on a series of events that would change countless lives.
Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs
On the 20th anniversary of the attack on New York’s Twin Towers, we revisit Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs, the first crowd-sourced exhibition of its scale dedicated to images of 9/11 and its aftermath, with thousands of photographers—amateur and professional alike—exhibited together. Here’s how it happened.
A Parallel Universe Shopping Guide to Photo London
After its opening last weekend in physical form, Photo London continues in digital form on Artsy until September 28th. The opportunity to buy works directly from the exhibitors via the platform.
Catherine Balet: The Suspenseful Moods of Contemporary Life
Moods in a Room by Catherine Balet brings together twenty years of photographic work and reveals a modern world behind locked doors, where people shift between solitude and screens.
The Offerings of Galerie Intervalle at Art Paris
For its third participation in Art Paris, Galerie Intervalle is showcasing Antony Cairns, Lucas Leffler, Julien Mignot and Julien Mauve, four artists working at the crossroads of documentary and the plastic arts, where fiction has a lot to say about reality.
Saïdou Dicko: From Sketchbook to Photography
Blind brings a spotlight to artists exhibited at Art Paris, and focus today on Saïdou Dicko whose work is steeped in his Burkinabe origins. He is represented by Afikaris, a young gallery first launched online, in 2018, before opening its brick-and-mortar location last January at rue Quincampoix in Paris. Its mission: to promote art from Africa, mainly painting and photography.
Art Paris: A Passion Fair
A general-interest fair showcasing works from modernism to the present, Art Paris, running from September 9 to 12, is the first event to take place at the Grand Palais Éphémère. Among the 140 galleries from some 20 countries, photography has a special place. Guided tour.
Back to the Future with Robert Bird
The image is of a wealthy woman. She’s standing against a mahogany-shaded chest of drawers holding a branch of hawthorn that runs across the lower half of the frame. The branch meets the pink rose pinned to her waist. Her shoulders are bare, but pearl-like straps run down to a grey and black embroidered bodice […]
How ACT UP Transformed the Landscape of Art and Activism in the Age of AIDS
Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman’s new book is a masterpiece of activist history and tactics around the AIDS crisis.
The Visa Pour L’image Festival Catches its Breath
After a 2020 edition held without any audience, the 33rd edition of the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, opens its doors to the public again and continues to show a world in pain.
Afrosurf: Back to Basics
Featuring a collection of over two hundred photographs shot in eighteen different countries, Afrosurf is the first book to look back on the history of surf culture in Africa.
Exploring the Mythology of Twins in West Africa
A new book, Land of Ibeji by Sanne De Wilde and Bénédicte Kurzen, examines the different cultural responses to twinhood in Nigeria, with colorful portraits of twins and doppelgängers alike.
An Intimate Portrait of Intersex People Living Around the World Today
The ongoing series “My Own Wings” by photographers Carla Moral and Katia Repina showcases the stories of people harmed by the narrow confines of binary gender essentialism.
Hong Kong Photojournalists Look Back on Photographing the 2019 Protests
Throughout the protests of 2019, Cheng Wai Hok, Lam Yik and Alex Chan Tsz Yuk worked to photograph the event that rocked Hong Kong. Now, with the city’s National Security Law just over a year old and press freedom under attack, the three photojournalists look back on the protests and at what life in the city is like today.
