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.
The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD
After a 2-year absence, the celebrated photo fair returns to New York City.
From One War To the Next – photos by Oleksandr Glyadyelov
In War (2014-2022) published by 89 books, photographer Oleksandr Glyadyelov covers eight years of war in Ukraine.
Rediscovering Shepard Sherbell’s “Soviets” 30 Years Later
A charity sale at the Ki Smith Gallery, in partnership with the MUUS Collection, is raising money for The Kyiv Independent through the photojournalist’s work.
Along a Deadly Road
New Mexico’s highways are marked by colorful memorials for the victims of car accidents. Photographer Judith Lanius’s new book puts us in the passenger seat.
In Perche, photography serves the environment
The third edition of the “Le champ des impossibles” festival includes the works of 32 artists about trees, mixing paintings, sculpture and photography. It is an event with a rural atmosphere to raise awareness among its public, the locals and its guests about modern visual languages.
A Dystopian Portrait of San Francisco at the Turn of the Millennium
In The Golden City, Mimi Plumb captures the anxieties of a world spinning out of control at the nation’s coastal edge.
Where the City Doesn’t End
In this interview, photographer Valentino Bellini talks about his project La Mancha Urbana, “The Urban Sprawl”, whose chapter shot in La Paz, Bolivia, recently became an NFT series.
Adrien Boyer: “I Take Pictures of Things That do not Exist”
Taking several trips in 2021, Adrien Boyer photographed the Parc Naturel Régional du Perche, in France, situated between the Paris region and Normandy. Exhibited at the Champ des Impossibles festival, this extensive documentary work is the occasion of a beautiful stroll in the Parc du Manoir de Courboyer that will last all summer.
The Photographer’s Hand: Rare Prints by Manuel Álvarez Bravo
A new exhibition celebrates the master of Mexican modernist photography.
Judith Joy Ross: Transcending America
In parallel to an exhibition at the BAL in Paris, Atelier EXB publishes a monograph on the remarkable body of work of this subtle American artist.
Photo London in Five Acts
Eight months after the previous iteration, which was postponed till the fall due to the pandemic, the art fair Photo London returns to Somerset House from May 12 to 15. Bringing together 106 exhibitors from 18 countries, the fair picks up its pre-Covid momentum. The online version, in its 3rd edition, is here to stay, […]
The Making of War Photography
The Musée de l’Armée in Paris offers a first glimpse into its photographic archives in an exhibition that traces the representation of war and the evolution of images of combat from 1849 to the present. This essential event shares some important lessons.
Documentary Fiction, Galactic Interventions, Apartheid Evictions, and Pink Palace Floods
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize is the UK’s biggest photography prize. It’s also the best. This year’s edition sees a diversity of work from Southern Africa, the United States, and Northern Ireland on display.
The Ingenuity of Instant Photography at the Expolaroid Festival
In the 10th edition of the Expolaroid Festival, Galerie Taylor showcased four artists and their take on the instant photograph, from triptychs to painted-over snapshots.
The L’œil urbain Festival Looks at the World
Corbeil-Essonnes, in France, is hosting the tenth L’œil urbain festival, showcasing a dozen exhibitions which form a photographic itinerary around the city, both indoors (Commanderie Saint-Jean, Galerie d’art municipale, Médiathèque Chantemerle, Théâtre) and outdoors (in front of the Hôtel de Ville, at Place Crété, Rue du Trou-Patrix, gazebo). Blind zooms in on three must-see series.
Albarran Cabrera: The Golden Voyage
Inspired by Asian culture, in their first exhibition in Geneva at the Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, the Spanish duo Albarran Cabrera presents a sophisticated vision of nature in which gold is an essential element of the photographic syntax.
How Women Are Transforming Street Photography
A new exhibition spotlights the work of 79 photographers from 20 countries pushing the boundaries of the genre.
Photojournalist Paula Bronstein Wins 2022 Courage in Photojournalism Award
Photojournalists Carol Guzy and Farzana Wahidy were also recognized as honorees. In its 8th year, the award is given to women photojournalists who exhibit extraordinary courage and humanity in reporting from areas of instability, oppression, and conflict.
Circulation(s): A Trendsetter’s Lab
Showcasing 30 artists from 15 countries, including Armenia, the 12th iteration of the Circulation(s) Festival once again maps the landscape of contemporary photographic practices.
A Bridge Between Tuscany And The Arabian Desert
Until a couple of years ago Al Ula was off the map for most people outside Saudi Arabia. You’ll hear about it more and more.
On Pasolini’s Road
In the book Sur la route by Pier Paolo Pasolini, contra-corrente, the artist Chantal Vey retraces the journey of the Italian poet.
An Ode to Intimate Photographs
In a book published by Atelier EXB, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris explores the feeling of love through fifteen intimate stories spanning the 1950s to the present.
Marcus Leatherdale, Who Photographed New York’s Downtown Art Scene, Dies at 69
Marcus Leatherdale, the charismatic photographer who documented New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, died at 69 on April 22 from suicide.
A Melancholy Portrait of Adak Island
American photographer Ben Huff’s book Atomic Island paints a melancholy portrait of Adak Island, once a US Army military outpost.
Joana Choumali on Weaving Her Grief Into Photographs
In a new show at the Sperone Westwater Gallery, the artist presents two bodies of work that transform photography through embroidery.
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.”
Green Money Comes From The Sky
Over years living in Uganda, Michele Sibiloni photographed a seasonal hunt that looks like a fluorescent apocalypse.
Café Belgica Nostalgia
In Café Belgica, photographer Harry Gruyaert immerses himself in his photographs of cafés in Belgium taken in the 70s and 80s.
What Remains of Our Love
In his book First Trip to Bologna 1978 / Last Trip to Venice 1985, Seiichi Furuya presents the first and very last trip he made with his wife, Christine Gössler, who committed suicide in 1985.
Luigi Ghirri’s Puglia
In Puglia. In Tra albe e tramonti, published by Mack Books, we walk through Luigi Ghirri’s Puglia as if watching a movie.
Revisiting the Early Days of New York Hip Hop
Sophie Bramly photographed the artists, musicians, and dancers who created the most influential cultural movement of the late twentieth century.
Revisiting New York City’s Role in the Slave Trade
Nona Faustine connects the present with the past with powerful self-portraits that resist erasure of the city’s brutal history.
Janis Joplin in Psychedelic Glory, Onstage and Off
Elliott Landy’s newest book, Photographs of Janis Joplin: On the Road & On Stage reveals never-before-seen photographs of the singer on the precipice of superstardom.
Baja Moda : “The Principle of Resistance” by Pablo López Luz
Pablo López Luz can be considered among the main figures in contemporary Mexican photography. With international exhibitions and works in collections such as The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, he is one of the figures reinterpreting and expanding Mexican and Latin American photographic traditions.
Motoyuki Daifu : Childhood as a Playful Disorder
To bring some light into these dark times, the MEP in Paris has had the brilliant idea of a dreamy exhibition on “Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy”. For the first time, the program of its emerging artists’ Studio space echoes the main exhibition, by hosting Motoyuki Daifu’s series “Lovesody”. This is the Japanese photographer’s first institutional exhibition in Europe.
