Joel Meyerowitz: A Year of Consecration
For the past six decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the streets of the world, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to the acceptance of color photographs as works of art. In 2024, five major exhibitions celebrate his work.
A 1980s Guide to Consumerism Run Amok
Pippa Garner has the answers you’ve been looking for.
Graciela Iturbide’s Luminous Portrait of Chicano Los Angeles
The legendary Mexican photographer crafts a layered portrait of love, joy, and survival.
Japan: A Love Story
Michael Kenna has been photographing Japan for almost 40 years. A new exhibition at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica shows with 100 pictures how beautiful and delicate this country can be.
Corky Lee’s Asian America
Over the course of a 50-year career, photographer Corky Lee documented Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across America. The book Corky Lee’s Asian America presents Lee’s iconic photographs and traces his mission to chronicle a history of inclusion, resistance, ethnic pride, and patriotism.
Photographing My Blind Parents
David Snider’s mother and father were born blind, but he ironically became a photographer, and documented their lives. This project is the most important one in his life, and is set to become a photobook soon.
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Le Baiser de Man Ray
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, in New York presents an exhibition of important photographs exemplifying the artist’s unbridled imagination and love for experimentation.
Photographing Sea People in 1970s England
Alec Gill’s series of images documents daily life on one road in Hull and its community at the heart of the UK’s historic fishing culture.
Emin Özmen’s Moving Look at Tumultuous Turkey
In his new book Olay, meaning “incident” in Turkish, Magnum photographer Emin Özmen chronicles a turbulent decade in Turkey. The book is a retrospective of his work to date, tirelessly documenting his country in a ceaseless state of turmoil, from a failed coup d’état, through popular uprisings, to natural disasters.
Sparkle Like Gold: Mystical Scenes of Daily Life Around the Globe
With the new book and exhibition, “Ten Years”, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno explores the luminous space between reality and illusion.
A Fresh Look at New Aquitaine
Initiated by a photographic commission in collaboration with the New-Aquitaine region, in France, the exhibition “Surveying, photographing New-Aquitaine”, presented at the Frac MÉCA, reveals the many facets of this beautiful place. A fresh look through the lens of nine artists.
Gordon Parks’ Testimony of Black Life in America
Originally Published in 1971, Gordon Park’s Born Black was the first book to unite both Parks’ writing and photography. The book focused on Park’s work documenting a crucial decade for both Civil Rights and Black Power movements. A new expanded edition and an exhibition reveal previously unpublished photographs, archival material, and new scholarly essays.
Visions and Images: Alexander Liberman, 1977
In the following video, Vogue’s legendary editorial director Alexander Liberman is interviewed by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, for the television program Visions and Images.
A Love Letter to New York’s Mom & Pop Shops
James and Karla Murray pay homage to 200 local landmarks that transform the city of 8 million into a network of villages.
Joe Conzo: A Look Back at the Bronx, 1977 – 1984
Photographer Joe Conzo, Jr. was born and raised in the South Bronx. Through a combination of luck and circumstance, as a teenager Conzo found himself at the heart of cultural and activist movements working to change the neighborhood. Now 45 years later, a selection of his photographs is on display at the Bronx Documentary Center through April 21.
The Brilliant Colors of Hong Kong’s Darkest Days
As Hong Kong worked to recover from the mass anti-government protests of 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic closed the city, photo editor and photographer Mikko Takkunen set out to photograph this city in a fresh way. His photographs, in brilliant, saturated color, reveal hidden perspectives and moods that many have not seen.
Ralph Gibson: The French Connection
A new book from Ralph Gibson, “Salon Littéraire,” offers a half-century of the legendary photographer’s stunning (and surprising) images of France.
Francesco Gioia: A Master of Mystery
Somewhere between dream and reality, Francesco Gioia’s 57 is undoubtedly the first step along the road to success. This 33-year-old self-taught artist’s mastery of composition and color is worthy of the greatest, and his wide range of influences makes it hard to believe that this is only his first book. A must-see.
Three Times a Week
In her “Three Times a Week” series, Israeli photographer Ofir Berman takes an introspective look at a closed society seeking to maintain a leisure culture within the public space.
On Rana Plaza Collapse, by Ismail Ferdous
By documenting the lives of the Rana Plaza victims, Ismail Ferdous explores how their lives have changed and the challenges they now face.
American Decorum
For his first solo work, Philippe Blayo traveled across America. The result is a “slightly hallucinatory journey through a stripped-down America, stripped of its trappings”, and a minimalist series with singular settings.
Revisiting San Francisco’s Radical Queer Scene of the 90s
Chloe Sherman shares intimate scenes of everyday life coming of age among a new counterculture movement.
Bare Handed
Photographer Holly Lynton pays tribute to work, in a book entitled Bare Handed, published by L’artiere. In this book, hands are elevated to the status of symbols of work well done.
Through James Webb’s Astronomical Eye
Launched in December 2021, the American James Webb telescope is beginning to send us images of the universe and the galaxies in it. Taking photographs in the infrared, it offers a new and fascinating vision of the universe, while improving our understanding of it.
Burt Glinn: Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer
After a stint in the army during World War II, and following working for LIFE magazine, photographer Burt Glinn joined Magnum photos in 1951. A book celebrates the compelling, elegant, and expressive ways Glinn experienced the world through photography over his decades long career. Highlighting his extraordinary talent for picturing iconic and everyday scenes from the second half of the 20th century, this is the first monograph covering the breadth of Glinn’s storied career.
Okaerinasai !
Almost thirteen years after the triple disaster that hit Japan and the Fukushima nuclear power station, Cécile Asanuma-Brice is taking a photographic look back at the disaster. In this work, on show until 9 March at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris, the scientist reveals traces of life before the disaster.
The Introspection of Frank Ockenfels 3
At Fotografiska, the photographer goes on a personal journey through his career.
Second-hand: a second chance for the photo industry?
Reconditioned or used today second-hand is taking over. Does this change in purchasing habits signal a paradigm shift in our consumer society?
Melinda Blauvelt’s Soft Portraits in Brantville
Brantville, published by Stanley Barker, looks back at the work of Melinda Blauvelt, who took a series of photographs in this small town of Nova Scotia between 1972 and 1974.
The Ruin of Babel
Artist Bertille Bak questions globalisation, dependence and independence, and the inequalities that result. She denounces a society at the end of its rope, in a sort of parody of the myth of Babel, where the race for growth and infinite gain has replaced the desire to reach the kingdom of God.
Tina Modotti, an Anti-Conformist at Heart
At the Jeu de Paume, the exhibition “Tina Modotti: The Eye of Revolution” celebrates the significant work of this committed photographer, whose images bear witness to the struggle for social and economic justice in post-revolutionary Mexico.
The Lands of Mist
Is Europe still home to indigenous, spiritual populations close to nature? With their project, Aux Pays des Brumes (film and book), Sophie Planque and Jérémy Vaugeois are highlighting this European cultural heritage linked to nature.
Jean Gaumy, From Nature
Until April 13, 2024, Jean Gaumy takes over the Sit Down gallery in Paris. An immersion in nature, where strength, fragility and truth mingle.
Ubisoft Launches In-Game Photography Contest
The French video game company has been embracing this new visual trend for many years now. With Photomode Contest 2024, its second event of the type, Ubisoft offers to submit your best in-game photos for a chance to win a Ubisoft Montreal studio tour and a one-year Ubisoft+ Premium subscription.
Bosnian Memories
Almost 30 years after the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, photographer Fabrice Dekoninck reflects on the memory of those who survived the siege of Sarajevo, the ethnic purge in the Prijedor region and the genocide in Srebrenica, in a book entitled Between Fears and Hope.
On the Road Together
For several years, photographer Arno Brignon embarked on a road trip across American cities named after European capitals. The project was carried out on film.
A New Robert Doisneau
Revised and modernized by Philippe Apeloig, La Banlieue de Paris, by Blaise Cendrars and Robert Doisneau, is published by Denoël: a marvel!
In the shadow of Kate Barry
The photographic works of British artist Kate Barry are currently exhibited at the Quai de la Photo in Paris until March 20, 2024. At the same time, curator Sylvain Besson is retracing her story in a photographic work whose name, “My Own Space”, is the inspiration for the name of the exhibition.
In Ukraine, a Battle for the Future
At Le Hangar in Brussels, a collective exhibition showcases three generations of Ukrainian photographers. “Generations of Resilience” offers a visual testimony not only to the reality of war, but also to the resilience and artistic evolution of a nation shaped by its history.
Photography at All Costs
Every year, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France supports various French photography awards. For the past 3 years, this support has led to an exhibition of last year’s winners, highlighting the “creative effervescence of today”.
Dr. Paul Wolff: Between Light and Shadows
The best-known German photographer of the interwar period, Paul Wolff is nevertheless a forgotten figure in the history of photography. How can one explain the astonishing disappearance of such a witness to a Germany that was undergoing both renewal and the darkest hours of its history? The first retrospective devoted to his work in France lifts part of the mystery of Paul Wolff, between light and shadow.
Richard Avedon: A Century of Icons
Following an exhibition at Gagosian New York to mark the centenary of his birth in 1923, some sixty photographs by the master of portraiture Richard Avedon are exported to Paris. The Iconic Avedon exhibition is on view until March 2, at the Gagosian gallery in Paris.
Over Hill and Dale
Samuel Hoppe conducts a series of self-guided walks over several days each year, in France and elsewhere, from which he draws a series of photographs questioning our relationship with nature and the mountains.
Gaia Squarci on Her Experience as a Visual Storyteller
Gaia Squarci is a photographer and video artist, a contributor to Blind, who divides her time between Milan and New York, where she teaches multimedia at the International Center of Photography. She produces photographs for the press and personal projects, always with the aim of publishing a story that hasn’t been told. In this interview, she talks about her commitment and her photographic work.
